Job Description
New Group Treasurer role now available at leading global law firm.
This role would suit someone with significant Treasury experience who is comfortable being hands on with day to day cash management of a large global scale, as well as being able to take a strategic view of the firms processes and implementing change.
Specific duties include:
* Managing the day-to-day relationships with the banks
* Managing bank facilities, including origination, renewals, drawdowns and headroom
* Forecasting cash flow positions, related borrowing needs, and available funds for investment, ensuring that sufficient funds are available to meet ongoing operational and capital investment requirements
* Advising management on the liquidity aspects of its short and long-term planning
* Managing the firm's global cash resources to ensure that we optimise our use and location of funds in all major operating currencies
* Maximising efficiency of the firm's cash resources by pooling currencies to avoid conversion
* Responsibility for treasury policies and their implementation, maintaining systems and procedures that impose an adequate level of control over treasury activities
* Reviewing the firm's natural currency hedge and balance sheet exposures, taking action to correct any imbalance, recommending hedges and other financial derivatives where appropriate
* Overseeing the management of the firm’s portfolio of global insurance policies (including P.I.) and London insurance policies (excluding HR). Providing input on appropriate coverage levels, monitoring claims and managing relationships with brokers
* Focal point for insurance and risk management queries
* Directing and managing the activities of the Treasury & Client Money team, including planning, staffing, budgeting, managing expense priorities, and recommending and implementing changes to methods
* Hiring and developing a strong team to support the firm’s objectives and strategy
* Work with management to develop and improve strategies and increase net profit by performing effective treasury management
* Develop strategy for treasury operations including evaluating treasury systems to improve efficiencies, rationalising bank accounts, developing a strategy for managing bank ancillary business requests
Experience needed:
* Be happy and able to do the day to day of cash management and moving cash around the group
* Strong FX exposure as well as understanding where FX risks are coming from and ideas on how to mitigate those
* Intercompany loans exposure
* Cash forecasting
* Experience working in sizable/ global firm
* Law firm experience is not essential