Head of Funding - Treasury

Role Purpose

The Head of Funding will lead the strategic oversight and operational execution of the Group’s funding and liquidity management. This role is responsible for managing intragroup funding structures, overseeing dividend flows and intercompany recharges, ensuring technical hedge accounting compliance, and driving global cash forecasting accuracy. The individual will also ensure adherence to financial regulations, transfer pricing requirements, and support efficient capital deployment across the Group.

• Lead and optimise intragroup funding flows across the Group, ensuring efficient deployment of capital and alignment with legal, tax, and regulatory constraints.
• Lead oversight of group funding strategy, ensuring optimal use of internal and external funding channels.
• Monitor and manage liquidity positions across entities, regions, and currencies, ensuring adequate buffers and identifying mismatches.
• Oversee dividend planning and execution to align with capital and tax strategies.
• Manage intercompany recharges for shared services and funding arrangements, ensuring compliance with group policies and local regulations.
• Collaborate with Tax and Finance teams to ensure recharges follow OECD transfer pricing rules and maintain proper documentation.
• Assess and manage the impact of funding strategies on local entity balance sheets, including capital structure, leverage, and liquidity positioning.
• Design and implement intragroup balance sheet currency hedging strategies to mitigate FX risk.
• Own and maintain the Group’s liquidity framework, monitoring minimum liquidity buffers and performing liquidity stress testing.
• Provide clear analysis and recommendations to senior stakeholders on liquidity risk, funding capacity, and balance sheet optimisation.
• Own technical hedge accounting processes, including documentation and effectiveness testing, and ensure compliance with IFRS/GAAP hedge accounting standards.
• Lead the global cash forecasting process across the group, enhancing accuracy and visibility.
• Produce insights, scenario analysis, and reporting for executive and board-level stakeholders.
• Work with FP&A to understand cash impact on the plan and drive variance analysis for the Board.
• Ensure intercompany transactions, funding, and recharges are consistent with global transfer pricing policies.
• Support audit processes and resolve intercompany disputes or reconciliation issues.
• Act as deputy to the Head of Front Office for market-facing treasury activities, including funding execution, FX, and interest rate risk management.
• Lead execution of external funding transactions such as bank facilities, debt capital markets issuances, and refinancing activities.
• Execute FX and interest rate hedging transactions in line with Group risk management policies.
• Maintain relationships with banking partners and provide recommendations on funding opportunities, refinancing timing, and hedging strategies.

Essential

Qualifications:

• Degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or related field.
• Professional qualification (e.g., ACT) preferred.
• 10+ years of treasury or corporate finance experience in a multinational organisation.
• Proven leadership in funding, cash, and liquidity management.
• Strong understanding of hedge accounting standards (IFRS/US GAAP).
• Experience with intercompany funding and recharge structures, transfer pricing compliance, and global treasury operations.

Skills &

Competencies:

• Excellent analytical, financial modelling, and forecasting skills.
• Clear communicator able to influence senior stakeholders.
• Understanding of treasury systems, ERP platforms (Kyriba), and banking infrastructure.
• Organised, detail‑oriented, and able to thrive in a dynamic, cross‑border environment.