Global Liquidity Manager

Main Purpose:Puma Energy is seeking a (Senior) Manager with global liquidity management experience. Primary responsibilities include cash flow forecasting, assisting in improvement of working capital by optimizing cash upstream from various entities along with other initiatives and performing deviation analysis to assess variances, change in working capital etc.Knowledge Skills and Abilities, Key Responsibilities:

Key Responsibilities:

• Review global liquidity forecast consolidated on a weekly basis.
• Analyze liquidity bridge & variance analysis to ascertain actuals vs forecast positions.
• Monitor impact on liquidity of any critical business factor and assist relevant stakeholders to minimize the same.
• Liaise with concerned teams to resolve any disconnect observed in the core input sources.
• Update & reconcile net debt and address material differences with all relevant stakeholders.
• Attend cash flow reviews of countries across regions and take note of key messages likely to impact liquidity.
• Analyze sales forecasts of countries & steer deviation analysis to track collections accuracy of all major entities in the group.
• Support liquidity planning & working capital improvement by having maximum cash upstream to the group to minimize idle cash.
• Assist in implementation of Treasury Management System by working with concerned teams to improve the process via streamlining & better controls resulting into high efficiency.
• Other ad-hoc reporting and analysis as required.

Requirements:

Experience:

• 8+ years of Treasury (Cash Management) experience in a global/regional role covering cash flow forecasting, financial reporting, working capital management and managing diverse stakeholder relationships including people management in a corporate multinational environment.

Skills:

• Ability to prioritize, organize, effectively manage time and work independently with minimal guidance.
• Excellent planning & analytical skills along with focus & very strong attention to detail. Should be able to perform a cause & effect analysis.
• Strong business acumen and excellent communication skills. Should be capable to interact with multiple stakeholders across the group and build strong inter-personal relationships with them.
• Advanced MS Office experience.
• Drive for problem solving.
• Possesses pro-active attitude, is self-motivated and able to work in a fast paced, multi-tasking environment.

Competencies:

• Knowledge of cash and liquidity management in a complex entity structure.
• Foreign exchange and debt management experience.
• Should be familiar with cash pooling & zero balancing sweeps.
• People management – supervisory experience of 1 to 2 direct reports would be preferred.

Mandatory Education:

• M.B.A. (Finance) or equivalent is required. Additional qualifications such as CTP/CFA/FRM would be an advantage.

IT Systems:

• Microsoft Office (especially Excel) is a must.
• Experience of using a TMS (preferably Kyriba) would be a strong advantage.
• ERP (Microsoft Navision) system knowledge would be a nice to have.

Key Relationships and Department Overview:

• Internal – functional managers, local & regional Finance teams along with other senior global stakeholders
• External – banks & external consultants