Treasury Manager/Assistant Treasurer

Treasury Manager / Assistant Treasurer
Energy Commodities
Houston, TX

• Treasury and Trade Finance professionals – Treasury Manager is a working manager role initially an individual contributor but expected to subsequently manage a staff of junior Treasury professionals and provide mentorship and supporting their career growth. 
• In addition to daily duties, plays an integral part in the strategic growth of the company's trading business
• Assists senior treasury leadership in managing bank relationships, optimizing financing structures, collaborating with front-office traders, and promoting process and system improvements
• High visibility role that interfaces and collaborates with multiple organization functions including Treasury, Trade Finance, Credit, Middle Office, Legal and Accounting
• Ensures seamless coverage of funding requirements.
• Must be polished professional accustomed to maintaining critical external relationships with key stakeholders including banking partners.

Core Role Accountabilities:

Operational focus is on managing daily treasury operations of the company:

• Demanding and fast-paced environment with high exposure to management and front-office teams
• Cashflow forecasting
• Variance reporting
• Day-to-day management of liquidity
• Day-to-day management of payment approvals process
• Full custody of Borrowing Base and other bank reporting
• Monitoring FX exposure and hedging risks
• Owns working capital allocations, tracking, and costing

Partners with Senior financial leadership on strategic focus such as:

• Assisting in providing guidance on growth and expansion efforts:          
• Expanding bank relationships
• Mentoring younger talent
• Optimizing financing structures
• Promoting process efficiencies through technology enhancements

REQUIREMENTS/QUALIFICATIONS:

• 10+ years overall relevant experience covering finance, trade finance, credit, accounting, cash management and treasury management
• Minimum 2 years treasury operations experience.
• Prior experience in managing other employees including mentoring younger talent
• Experience in the commodities trading space, ideally with trading and financing agreements
• Accustomed to working in roles with a heavy focus on marketing company financial wherewithal and optimizing obtaining unsecured open credit limits from trading counterparties across the industry

EDUCATION/SKILLS/OTHER:

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in relevant field
• Strong Microsoft office skills
• Fluent English required, other languages will be an asset
• Strong verbal and written communicator
• Strong analytical, organizational and communication skills
• Demonstrate and inspire integrity and professionalism
• Self-motivated and goal orientated
• Team player; able to build relationships across the company
• Ability to manage large amounts of data and build their spreadsheet and database models. 
• Programming experience also highly desirable (Python, Power BI a plus)

QUALIFIED INQUIRIES: [email protected]