Overview / Responsibilities

Wood is recruiting a Senior Treasury Manager, to manage the Group's cash and debt,effectively providing support and advice to the businesses on cash management across the globe. T his role could be based anywhere in the UK and will report to the Treasury Director, with responsibility for the following:

• Overall management of the Group's cash and debt effectively and efficiently
• Daily management of the Group's sweeps, pools and syndicated facilities to ensure interest costs are minimised and to ensure compliance with the facilities
• Ensuring appropriate local working capital facilities are in place to achieve the optimum borrowing/cash position for the Group
• Providing advice and support to the businesses to assist in their cash management and ensure interest, foreign exchange and other treasury risks arising from cash and debt positions are minimised
• Providing support to Treasury Director to proactively consider, help implement and manage global liquidity solutions and play a key role in group wide treasury projects as required
• Ensuring the businesses understand their obligations to repatriate surplus cash, and manage a program to ensure this happens effectively and efficiently
• To consider the need for improved cashflow forecasting, and project manage the implementation of any chosen solutions

Specific responsibilities

• Ensuring cash is returned to Group in line with policy to minimise the Group's interest costs
• Facilitate accurate reporting of cash and debt in each of the businesses
• Management reporting of the net debt position including weekly and monthly treasury reporting of cash and debt
• Ensuring treasury policies, particularly those relating to cash and debt, are followed in each of the businesses and advising them on treasury procedures
• Providing support in the management of Global bank relationships with a focus on those providing liquidity solutions and cash management
• Coordinate and improve cashflow forecasting activities and ensure compliance with timetable and requirements to help improve liquidity management (may include managing implementation of new group-wide systems)

Skills / Qualifications

• Degree qualified
• Preferably Chartered Accountant or ACCA (or equivalents) qualified
• Previous experience in a treasury function in a geographically widespread organisation

Knowledge of:

• How geographically widespread businesses operate in relation to liquidity management
• Detailed understanding of liquidity management and the applicability of certain solutions
• Awareness of external factors and their impact on effective management of cash and debt
• Changing regulatory environment particularly in relation to cash and debt management

Experience:

• Established and achieved challenging performance targets,
• Demonstrated a commitment to continuous learning and development
• Proven technical excellence
• Demonstrated innovative strategies and implemented long term solutions

Personal Attributes:

• Drive and ambition
• Excellent communication and management skills
• Professional manner and ability to manage shifting priorities
• Ability to establish effective working relationships with all levels of the organisation
• Accepting responsibility for tasks and ensuring deadlines are met

Ability to:

• Build on existing bank relationships to ensure the Group have sufficient facilities in place to meet the needs of the business
• Identify inefficiencies and find solutions to continually improve processes
• Work effectively and foster good working relationships with a range of individuals both internally and externally

Company Overview

Wood is a global leader in engineering and consultancy across energy and the built environment, helping to unlock solutions to some of the world's most critical challenges. We provide consulting, projects and operations solutions in more than 60 countries, employing around 40,000 people. www.woodplc.com

Diversity Statement

We are an equal opportunity employer that recognises the value of a diverse workforce. All suitably qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment on the basis of objective criteria and without regard to the following (which is a non-exhaustive list): race, colour, age, religion, gender, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran status, or other characteristics in accordance with the relevant governing laws.