Group Treasury Manager
- Recruiter
- pz Cussons
- Location
- Wythenshawe
- Salary
- Competitive Salary
- Posted
- 03 Aug 2017
- Closes
- 31 Aug 2017
- Job Title
- Treasury
- Category
- Consumer products / FMCG
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
Group Treasury Manager
Salary: Competitive
Wythenshawe,Greater Manchester
About PZ Cussons
PZ Cussons are a FTSE listed FMCG business, with their UK head office based in Wythenshawe, Greater Manchester. They have over 130 years experience of expertise in their field, and operate on an international basis in developed and emerging markets. They have a real passion for their brands, which include well known household names within the UK such as Carex, Imperial Leather and Original Source. In the rest of world, they have a diverse portfolio of brands and products that they make and sell.
This role will sit in their Tax and Treasury function, looking after Treasury on an international scale. A particular focus for the role will be within their Asian and African markets, as well as the UK.
About the role
This role is a true Group Treasury position, where you will be managing the treasury operations within PZ Cussons. As part of this role, you will be completing the following tasks:
- You will manage all cash within the business, which will include global cash management through pooling, netting and repatriation arrangements.
- Reviewing the monthly cash flow forecasts to a critical level, to ensure their accuracy is maintained.
- Looking at ways to improve working capital metrics, and monitoring them regularly.
- Managing foreign exchange hedging across all subsidiaries within the business, and ensuring everything is compliant with Treasury policies.
- Where exposures within the business are created by this foreign exchange hedging, you must be able to manage the exposures, and report to a Group level the businesses risk position.
- Ensuring that all compliance is adhered to.
- Working closely on a day-to-day basis with the Group Treasurers in Asia and Africa. This role will bring together information and data from a worldwide basis, and report it into the centralised UK management team.
- Installing best practices across the Treasury function on a worldwide scale. This will include involvement with a SAP Treasury module system implementation.
About the candidate
PZ Cussons are looking for a either a AMCT Qualified, or ACA / ACCA / CIMA Qualified candidate for this position. You must have a proven track records of working within a treasury role in a large, international organisation. Any experience working with developing markets would also be a huge advantage.
Good knowledge of risk management and reporting is also an important element for this role. A large part of the position is around the business partnering and stakeholder management of people within the Treasury team, and elsewhere in the business, on a UK and international basis. You must have strong communication skills, and be able to build creditability with stakeholders quickly. Knowledge of SAP and TMS systems would also be useful.
PZ Cussons are passionate about their brands and business, and want anyone joining their team to share this enthusiasm. You must have an interest to always look at ways to improve things, and work collaboratively with others across the business.
Any third party applications will be sent directly to Robert Walters.