Treasury Officer

Overview

This role is critical in managing complex capital flows across group companies, optimizing capital structure, and ensuring financial resilience in a metal and copper-intensive trading, sourcing, and manufacturing environment. The role operates at a senior leadership level, reporting to the CFO with direct strategic engagement with the MD and Board, ensuring alignment between treasury operations and corporate financial strategy. The incumbent will act as a key advisor to senior leadership on funding strategy, market exposure, banking structures, and capital allocation across jurisdictions.

• Define and execute group-wide treasury strategy aligned with business expansion and industrial growth plans.
• Optimize capital structure, funding mix, leverage, and overall cost of capital.
• Ensure capital preservation and financial discipline across all group entities.
• Maintain long‑term liquidity stability across commodity cycles, especially copper and base metals.
• Advise Board and senior leadership on capital deployment, reinvestment, and financial sustainability.
• Manage treasury operations across group companies and subsidiaries.
• Structure and control inter‑company funding, loans, and internal cash flows.
• Implement efficient cash pooling and liquidity management across entities.
• Ensure transparency, arm’s‑length pricing, and governance across all inter‑company transactions.
• Optimize capital allocation across trading, operating, and project companies.

• Manage end‑to‑end LC lifecycle including issuance, amendments, negotiation, documentation, and settlement.
• Handle back‑to‑back LCs ensuring compliance with contract terms, UCP 600, ISBP, and banking requirements.
• Oversee LC and bill discounting to optimize liquidity and funding cost.
• Review shipping, customs, and trade documentation for accuracy and compliance.
• Coordinate with suppliers, customers, internal teams, and banks to resolve discrepancies.
• Ensure seamless execution of high‑value international trade transactions.

• Own relationships with local, regional, and international banks and financial institutions.
• Negotiate and structure large‑scale funding facilities including:
• Working capital (OD, CC, Trust Receipts)
• Trade finance (LCs, BGs, SBLCs)
• Term loans and project financing
• Optimize banking costs, credit limits, and utilization efficiency.
• Engage in commodity‑linked and structured trade finance solutions.
• Manage banking exposure across multiple jurisdictions and currencies.

• Oversee enterprise‑wide cash flow forecasting and liquidity planning.
• Optimize working capital cycles driven by commodity trading and manufacturing operations.
• Manage receivables, payables, inventory, and shipment‑linked funding structures.
• Ensure efficient utilization of banking facilities in high‑volume trade environments.

• Manage foreign exchange exposure across multi‑currency transactions (USD, AED, EUR, etc.).
• Execute FX hedging strategies using forwards, swaps, and options.
• Monitor global currency and macroeconomic trends impacting exposure.
• Advise leadership on timing of transactions and hedging strategies.

• Manage commodity price exposure with primary focus on copper and non‑ferrous metals.
• Execute hedging strategies using futures, swaps, and derivative instruments.
• Track global copper markets including premiums, spreads, and volatility.
• Align procurement, sales, and trading strategies with commodity market movements.
• Mitigate risk arising from physical trading and price fluctuations.

• Ensure compliance with internal treasury policies and external regulatory requirements.
• Maintain adherence to UCP 600, ISBP, Incoterms, and international trade standards.
• Ensure strong governance across group treasury operations.
• Oversee treasury audits, documentation, and internal control frameworks.
• Maintain financial discipline and capital integrity across the group.

• Act as key interface with CFO, MD, Board, banks, auditors, and external stakeholders.
• Provide strategic insights on funding, liquidity, commodity exposure, and capital allocation.
• Collaborate with procurement, trading, operations, legal, and finance teams.
• Lead and develop treasury capabilities across group structure.

• Present group treasury position, liquidity exposure, and risk dashboards to leadership.
• Develop MIS systems for real‑time visibility of cash, debt, FX, and commodity exposure.
• Support strategic initiatives including expansion, acquisitions, and new market entry.