Head, Investment at Coronation Insurance Plc

Coronation Insurance is a leading West African full line insurance company offering a diverse range of products and services covering life, general and special risk businesses. Coronation Insurance is licensed to underwrite all classes of insurance, such as fire and special perils, goods-in-transit, all risk insurance and life insurance for both Individuals and Corporate entities.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Head, Investment

Location: Lagos
Job Schedule: Full Time

Role Summary

• The role of Head of Investment at Coronation Insurance will be to lead the delivery of strategic treasury capabilities that allow the organization achieve optimal business outcomes.

Principal Duties & Responsibilities
Business Advisory and Stakeholder Management:

• Provide advisory to the Board of Directors, Executive Management, and other stakeholders on best-fit strategy, operational plan, working capital requirements, and liquidity management, by leveraging on own deep expertise in strategy, and knowledge of key environmental trends, internal dynamics/resources and operating environment.
• Build valued relationships with stakeholders at the strategic level, and assemble coalitions, to support long term business development.

Foreign Currency and Market Risk Management:

• Develop strategy, policies, and tools to support the ongoing management of foreign exchange risk, liquidity and interest rate risks with the aim of mitigating the effects of volatility and unpredicted movement in market valuations (e.g. foreign currencies, interest rate). 
• Manage the company’s foreign currency activities through the identification of FCY surpluses and deficits, and maintain oversight over intra-company trading activities, active management of FCY windows (i.e. Central Bank of Nigeria, and pre-qualified Bureau De Change services), administration of FCY inflows into the company, and handling of overseas remittances either on behalf of the firm (e.g. payment for software), or to offshore vendors.

Working Capital Management:

• Define and manage the company’s strategy and processes for projecting, monitoring, analyzing, and optimizing its cash-flow, assets and liabilities through ratio analysis of operating expenses (e.g. working capital ratio, collection ratio), with the aim of ensuring the company is capable of continuing operations, and satisfying short-term debt, and upcoming operational expenses. 
• Proactively engage various functions across the Company in respect to their capital/operating expenditure to determine periodic forecasts on working capital, provide cashflow forecast /position to Executive Management, and propose solutions where required.

Transactional Treasury Processes:

• Oversee daily transactional treasury processes including (but not limited to) reviewing and authorizing disbursements & securities purchases / settlements across multiple bank platforms, ensuring clearance of Treasury-related transactions from bank reconciliations, approving fund management desk placement & settlement activities prior to receipt of Authorized Signatories approvals.
• Undertake daily review of Fund Manager’s reports (i.e. daily, weekly, and quarterly) prior to circulation, and driving the continuous improvement of treasury processes.
• Implement company’s policy on capital structure by ensuring an appropriate distribution between debt and equity to minimize cost of funds (CoF) and maintain CoF within the Company’s prescribed band.

Credit Management:

• Manage the company’s business loan position with banks by negotiating legal and commercial terms of credit agreements (i.e. overdrafts, term loans, and Sale & Buy-back transactions) in alignment with the company’s interest, over-seeing the repayment of credit facilities, monitoring credit maturity (& roll-over processes, where necessary), monitoring adherence of loan repayments to agreed terms & conditions, and monitoring pledged collaterals, with the end objective of ensuring the organization derives maximum benefit from credit facilities, while avoiding credit defaults. 

Manage Relationships with Financial Institutions:

• Manage the organization’s relationships with other financial institutions (i.e. banks, fund custodians, trustees etc.), by negotiating favorable investment terms on behalf of the organization, escalating potential settlement failures to the Treasurers of other financial institutions to avoid unwanted outcomes, and managing the organization’s relationship with its designated banks.

Supports Team’s Development:

• Provide leadership, direction, and coaching to the Investment Team towards the effective delivery of the department’s agenda.

Qualifications and Experience

• A minimum of Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited university
• Advanced Business Degree (preferably an MBA) is an added advantage
• Minimum of twelve (12) years relevant experience in Investment within a financial services company.
• Professional certification in finance and/or accounting from a recognized professional body (e.g. CFA, CGMA, ACCA, ICAN etc.).

Competencies and Skills Requirements:
Knowledge:

• Macroeconomic Analysis
• Market and Regulatory Environments

Skills:

• Strategy
• Treasury Management
• Business Acumen

Behavior:

• Analytical Thinking
• Entrepreneurship
• Relationship Building for Influencing
• Leading and Developing Others
• Drive for Results.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.