Group Treasury Senior Manager

Overview

Role Overview The Senior Group Treasury Manager serves as a key deputy to the Head of Group Treasury and leads critical components of the Group’s global treasury function. The role ensures robust liquidity management, execution of financial risk strategies, strong banking and investor relationships, and disciplined treasury governance across a multi-jurisdictional, capital-intensive agribusiness portfolio.

Role Overview The role is both strategic and highly hands-on, overseeing complex treasury operations, driving digital transformation, and ensuring the Group maintains strong financial resilience across diverse geographies, biological cycles, and long-term asset investment programs.

• Treasury Strategy, Systems & Digital Transformation
• Lead the implementation, enhancement, and governance of Treasury Management Systems (TMS) and treasury modules within the ERP (e.g., SAP).
• Ensure system integrity, data accuracy, automation, and continuous optimisation.
• Drive treasury digitalisation, including RPA, analytics-driven reporting, Power BI dashboards, and Payment Hub enhancements.
• Sponsor treasury process standardisation and transformation initiatives across the Group.
• Group Liquidity & Cash Management
• Manage daily cash positioning, liquidity deployment, and global cash visibility across business units and regions.
• Develop, maintain, and improve multi-horizon (daily/weekly/monthly/long-term) cash flow forecasts aligned with seasonal agricultural cycles.
• Identify liquidity risks linked to biological assets, operational volatility, and capital expenditure.
• Support and enhance cash pooling, notional pooling, and intercompany funding frameworks.
• Partner with FP&A and regional finance teams to monitor working capital dynamics.
• In-House Banking, Intercompany & Funding Operations
• Oversee global intercompany loan governance, pricing, settlements, and interest calculations.
• Manage Statement of Account (SOA) reviews and internal funding allocations.
• Strengthen in-house banking structures, controls, and documentation.
• Support the Group’s debt portfolio management including bilateral facilities, syndications, Islamic finance, structured agri-financing, and project financing.
• Maintain accurate records including debt schedules, covenants, maturities, interest flows, and compliance trackers.
• Financial Risk Management (FX, IR, Counter party)
• Identify, measure, and consolidate FX and interest rate exposures across operating entities and long-term projects.
• Execute hedging strategies (forwards, swaps, options) in line with Treasury Policy and delegated authority.
• Analyse hedge effectiveness, sensitivities, and market risks, providing actionable insights to senior leadership.
• Manage counter party risk and monitor exposure to banking partners.
• Continually enhance treasury risk frameworks and policies.
• Banking Relationship Management
• Maintain strong relationships with UAE, regional, and international banks.
• Act as the primary day-to-day contact for cash management, trade finance, guarantees, and farming-related financial products.
• Support negotiations on banking facilities, pricing, limits, and service SLAs.
• Oversee global bank account management, including openings, closures, mandates, KYC, and digital entitlement governance.
• Drive periodic bank performance reviews and structural optimisation.
• Investor, Lender & External Stakeholder Reporting
• Prepare high-quality liquidity reports, debt summaries, covenant certificates, risk exposure analyses, and treasury reporting packs for lenders, investors, and DFIs.
• Support financing, refinancing, and capital-raising processes, including modelling and scenario analysis.
• Serve as a key treasury representative in lender and investor meetings.
• Provide treasury disclosures for annual reports, statutory filings, and external audit processes.
• Treasury Operations, Controls & Governance
• Oversee global treasury operations including payments, collections, cash reconciliations, intercompany settlements, and funding transfers.
• Enforce compliance with Treasury Policy, Delegation of Authority (DoA), and governance frameworks.
• Maintain strong internal controls, segregation of duties, cybersecurity…