Group Treasurer

Job description / Role

The client, a pan-African energy and petrochemicals group present in over 30 countries with focus on Exploration & Production, Marketing, Lubricants, Aviation, Supply and trading.

Role overview:
Working closely with the Group CFO at the global head office, the Group Treasurer will be responsible for developing the central treasury function and will be expected to perform an active hands on role while at the same time to be involved in broader treasury improvement initiatives.

Scope:
- Treasury and financing: Manage complex multi-bilateral & in-house treasury and financing across Africa and Middle-East for more than 50 companies operating in more than 20 countries.
- Banking relationships: coordinate, develop and optimize banking relationships with international, regional and local banks.
- Compliance: ensure Group compliance with international, regional and local regulations. Monitor international and national sanctions and ensure Group compliance in this regard.
- Insurances: manage the coordination with insurance services providers at international and local levels to standardize and optimize insurances across the Group.

Requirements

Experience:
- The ideal candidate will be ACT certified (or equivalent see Certifications considered section below) and should have wide ranging experience of treasury operations (debt, investments, transactions, forex, hedging and general financial risk management) in the Sub-Saharan Africa and MENA regions.
- Advanced experience with front, middle and back office processes, duties and systems.
- Industry experience would be highly advantageous, however candidates from the all sectors will be considered as long as the experience is within the Treasury function of a well recognized / well known MNCs (with more than 30 subsidiaries).
- Preference will be given to candidates with experience in deploying multi-countries cash management and cash-pooling solutions.

Skills:
- Excellent communication skills are required with the ability to be comfortable at senior executive and operational levels.
- Western Educated - Finance Degree, ideally an MBA.
- 7-10 years PQE relevant experience with 3-5 years in a similar role.
- Exceptional organizational, analytic and communication skills.
- Financial modeling skills is a plus.
- In-depth knowledge of international banking operation.
- Managerial and project management / systems implementation experience preferred.
- Expertise in Treasury Management Systems and ancillary technology.
- Advanced user of Microsoft office suite (Excel, PowerPoint, Word).
- Knowledge of Cognos and ACCPAC/SAGE would be a plus.
- Negotiation skills.
- Languages: English, French is a must.

Specifics:
- Willingness to travel to Africa is expected - up to 50% during specific projects.

Certifications considered:
- AMCT Certification in Treasury, Risk and Corporate Finance from Association for Corporate Treasurers.
- Certified Treasury Professional (CTP), Association for Finance Professionals (AfP), USA
- Certificate in International Cash Management (CertICM), Association of Corporate Treasurers (ACT), U.K.

About the Company

At Cooper Fitch, we put the customer at the heart of everything we do. We provide recruitment, executive search and human resources advisory services to thousands of clients across the Middle East, we have been delivering services in the region since 1997. Our team is your team, we firmly believe in delivering first class committed search services. It is our mission to help build the best talent in the market. Our services are tailored to your every need, we have spent nearly twenty years developing an extensive database of top tier talent in the region. We also aim to help you protect and retain your people with our world-class assessment, testing and advisory facilities. We provide both valuable market updates and compensation and benefits analysis to complete the full spectrum of human resources services.