ACCOUNTABILITIES & RESPONSIBILITIES
- Managing the global cash flow forecasting process, across global teams, ensuring it provides insightful and timely information to manage the group’s liquidity
- Provide weekly cash flow reports to the the Director Group Treasury and Global Controller
- Work with colleagues in the Treasury team and country controllers to ensure that insights gained from the cash flow forecast translate into actions that proactively manage the group’s liquidity
- Provide analysis and reports to support the Group Treasury and FP&A team
- Lead the country controllers to ensure they are robust with their input into the cash flow forecast
- Provide insightful analysis to senior management (CFO, Director Group Treasury & Global Controller) to ensure that effective decision making can be made with respect cash and liquidity available for investments.
Cash Flow Forecasting
- Leadership of the global direct cash flow forecasting process
- Recommend and implement improvements to the current spreadsheet based process, whilst making sure it continues to work effectively and robustly pending transition to a new bespoke software tool
- Ensure robust insights of historic and forecast cash flows are provided to the Director Group Treasury and the Global Controller to enable the support of group wide investment and financing decisions
- Ensure the cash flow forecast continues to provide the ability to proactively manage the cash pools over the forecast time horizon, maintaining effective central liquidity management
Other responsibilities
- Provide analytical support to the Director Group Treasury and Global Controller
- Provide analytical support to the FP&A team, including working capital analysis and ensuring that the direct and indirect cash flow forecasts are aligned
EXPERIENCE & CAPABILITIES
- The ideal candidate will be a qualified accountant with proven ability to analyse complex financial information, strong attention to detail and a passion for delivering improvements.
- Excellent communication skills (written reports and presentations) are essential. You will be working with Senior Leadership Teams, Boards, and external stakeholders, explaining results and options for decision-making with clarity and focus.
- Previous experience of managing a global cash flow forecasting process is highly desirable.
- Previous experience of working capital programmes such as factoring would be an advantage.
- You should enjoy working at a pace with high achieving individuals and teams as this is quite normal in a PE environment.
