About the Role:

Kariera Group recruitment services are seeking searching the market to secure a Director of Treasury m with commercial Freight experience, to join a leading Global Freight forwarding Business. This role will involve relocation to the UAE on a permanent basis.

This role will be responsible for developing and implementing a treasury strategy with the aim to efficiently fund the working capital requirements of the freight forwarding business and manage cross border funds flow. This strategy will need to ensure that cash is available to meet the working capital requirements of a rapidly growing business operating in multiple geographies while ensuring over capitalisation does not result in a drag on ROCE.

The strategy will also need to consider the management of foreign exchange risk and efficient sources of financing. Furthermore the role is expected to provide support to the new regional and country level freight forwarding business units in various geographies through training, policies and procedures and best practice treasury governance.

The cash management/ pooling is expected to key to efficient operation of the freight forwarding business as it allows efficient management of cash across a wide range of branches.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead the development, implementation and management of a global treasury strategy for a leading World freight forwarding business.
• Set up a cash management structure for the freight forwarding business which manages liquidity across the global branch network.
• Implement, maintain or improve the day to day treasury requirements for the freight forwarding business.
• Manage the cash position to optimize return on capital employed.
• Provide leadership / guidance / policies / training, to regional finance managers responsible for freight forwarding branches on how to effectively manage liquidity and currency finance that is based on thresholds in a delegated authority matrix agreed with Group Treasury.
• Oversee intergroup funding structures and cash settlement.
• Working closely with Group Tax and Group Legal to ensure that funding structures are tax efficient and compliant with local laws and regulations in the geographies where branch network operates.
• Manage bank guarantees where required.
• Oversee and negotiate ABL structures (Factoring), where applicable.
• Perform foreign currency and interest rate hedging in close collaboration with Head Office Treasury Support group treasury on funding processes within the region.
• Reporting on cash positions, cash forecasts and seeking funding for shortfalls.
• Working with statutory auditors and internal auditors.

Requirements:

QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s degree/University degree or equivalent experience in Finance & Banking
• Master’s degree preferred

 EXPERIENCE

• Solid experience in the management of a treasury function in logistics /freight forwarding business.
• Background in banking Implementation of cash pool structure.
• Technical treasury experience (implementation of systems).
• Finance modules for ERP systems (Oracle/SAP).

SKILLS

• Strong communication skills - You are able to understand and address stakeholder’s needs and you can communicate change requirements.
• Problem solving - You enjoy solving problems. Getting to the root cause. You love taking on difficult challenges and finding creative, innovative solutions. You don’t get flustered easily.
• Detail oriented - You pay strong attention to the details as far as required – you do not loose the view to the problem to be solved and you understand, where 80/20 approaches are suitable and where not.
• You have a solid understanding of compliance requirements to protect company’s assets.
• Strong collaborator - You can work independently because you self-manage, with limited direction and guidance, but you also enjoy collaborating across dynamic and multi-cultural teams and are personable, helpful and incredibly organised.
• Results oriented - You are proactive in handling competing priorities and meet your deadlines and commitments; you always demonstrate a “can do” positive attitude.
• Confidentiality - You consider and protect the confidentiality of company data at ALL times;
• IT skills - You have a clear interest in systems and you are able to define tasks to the IT team, that are actionable and understandable. You have a profound knowledge of the Microsoft Office Suite.
• Flexibility to travel - You are ready to travel between 10-20% of the time across Europe to our
• operations to perform tasks on site.
• Languages - You speak and write fluent English – additional languages are a bonus, but not a must, in particular German, Dutch.

Benefits:

• Competitive Tax free expat package