Group Head of Treasury at KPMG

KPMG - Our client is the market leader within the Nigerian manufacturing industry. The Company is expanding operations across Africa and has embarked on several transformation initiatives aimed at building world-class processes, systems and infrastructure, to enable it to consolidate on its market leadership position.

The Company has identified the need to recruit dynamic, competent and suitably qualified professionals to fill the vacant positions within its Finance Function:

Job Title: Group Head of Treasury, Nigeria
Ref No: GHTR - C003

Reporting to the Group CFO, the successful candidate will be responsible for effective management of the company’s liquidity; loans and debt profiles; investment portfolios; financial and currency risks assessments, across the Group.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and implement strategies to anticipate and meet the Group’s short, medium and long term financing needs at a reasonable cost while ensuring alignment with organisational goals and objectives.
• Ensure judicious management of the Group’s liquidity to meet its medium-term requirements and obligations with focus on cash management and cash forecasting.
• Establish processes to support the identification of financial risks and exposure and the undertaking of appropriate foreign exchange and interest rate hedging decisions.
• Coordinate relationships with banks and investment managers.
• Ensure timely and accurate preparation of monthly and quarterly liquidity and investment reports.

Qualifications, Knowledge, Skills and Experience

• Bachelor's degree or its equivalent in any relevant discipline.
• Relevant professional accounting/ finance certification (e.g. ACA, CFN/MBA in Finance).
• Minimum of twelve (12) years relevant experience with at least three (3) in a senior management position
• Good understanding of micro and macroeconomic indices and its impact on the Group’s operations.
• Strong understanding of international treasury (corporate and! or banking) operations, risk management and bank relationship management.
• Good understanding of debt and equity structuring.
• Strong understanding of cash forecast models.
• Demonstrated commitment to ethical standards and high level of integrity.
• Strong leadership and people management skills including the ability to manage cross- cultural teams effectively.
• Strong communication and negotiation skills.

Application Closing Date
7th May, 2013

Method of Application
Interested candidates should send their CV’s to: [email protected] with the relevant job title and code stated in the subject line of the email.

Each application must include:

• A cover letter indicating the applicant’s position of interest and detailed contact information.
• Applicant’s curriculum vitae.

All applications will be treated in confidence. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted