Senior Analyst - Treasury Operations

About Emirates Global Aluminium

Emirates Global Aluminium is the world’s biggest ‘premium aluminium’ producer and the largest industrial company in the United Arab Emirates outside the oil and gas industry.  EGA is an integrated aluminium producer, with operations on four continents from bauxite mining to the production of cast primary aluminium and recycling. EGA employs over 7,000 of these people including more than 1,200 UAE Nationals. EGA operates aluminium smelters in Jebel Ali and Al Taweelah in the United Arab Emirates, an alumina refinery in Al Taweelah, a bauxite mine and associated export facilities in the Republic of Guinea, a speciality foundry in high strength recycled aluminium in Germany, and a recycling plant in the United States.

JOB PURPOSE:
To manage the Treasury operations to ensure the EGA Group financial risk exposure is minimised, and its investment earnings on cash reserves are maximised.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES:
Manage Financial Risk & Investments from Free Cash
    Conduct dealing in foreign currency and commodity derivatives to hedge the Fx & Commodity risk of organisation.
    Ensure that forex and commodity hedging are carried out efficiently and in a timely manner and required hedge ratios are maintained.
    Ensure that real time data on hedge positions are available by making use of data from Treasury management systems (TMS), SAP and through co-ordination with Business units.
    Ensuring that all the Forex and commodity deals are recorded correctly in SAP / TMS either manually or through interface in timely manner.
    Support the management in execution of Strategic commodity and Bunker Fuel Hedging programs.
    Ensuring that excess cash is invested in deposits in optimum manner after considering the counterparty limits and EGA investment policy.
    Ensuring efficient and timely execution of all Treasury deals in line with the Treasury Policy and SOP’s.
    Maintain the database related to Fx hedging, commodity hedging, deposit and other investments.
    Carry out the analysis for Interest rate risk management periodically.
    Ensures the maintenance of adequate levels of cash for EGA Group to meet near term financial obligations.
Cash flow forecasting, analysis and Reporting
    Carry out the short term and long term cash flow forecasting.
    Work with company’s business plan model to carry out various analysis, sensitivity and scenario analysis.
    Cary out analysis for periodic testing for loan covenants, analysing short-term financing options etc.
    Carry out the Adhoc analysis as required for the Job and as requested by management.
    Keep on exploring the opportunities to maximise the return on investments and increase savings potential.
    Prepare the Treasury reports accurately and in timely manner.
Support the Business / Advisory for Commodity and Forex Rates 
    Support the Marketing, Projects and other teams with rates requirement for Commodity and Forex for bidding to customers, budgeting, evaluations etc.
    Ensure that all the data updates from Data feed providers to TMS and SAP happens in accurate and timely manner.
    Ensure that Data feed subscriptions from Bloomberg, Reuters, Fast Market etc. are managed properly.
Trade Finance:
    Act as a back-up for Trade Finance specialist – handle the receivable sales (securitization) program, LC Issuance, Supply Chain financing, Structured Promissory Notes program  etc.
Banking Relationship Management
    Carry out the periodic review of Banks by liaising with internal teams for service performance feedback and quantitatively analyse their performance.
    Liaise with the Banks for short-term financing and Trade finance lines.
    Support the management in different activities related to managing the Long-term Loan book.
Managing the activities related to End of Service benefit Plan
    Carry out the Monthly reconciliation and Valuation of End of Service Benefit Fund via fund management system.
    Prepare the periodic reports and presentation for the Board of Directors for End of Service Benefit Plan.
Support the IT Project Implementation & Strategic Projects
    Handle the IT projects related to Treasury Management Systems (TMS), Robotic Process Automation, Data feed integration, LIBOR Transition, Setting up Valuation of Derivatives in TMS etc.
    Handle the LIBOR Transition Project.
    Prepare the Annual Financing Cost Budget/ Forecast and carry out periodic variance analysis on the same.
    Handle the automation of Treasury Front office reporting for moving the same to Power BI.

AUTHORITY/ DECISION MAKING:
Guidelines: 
    Thinking within clearly defined policies, standards and specific objectives. 
Decision Making:
    Direction of work is subject to practices and procedures, output is managed.

QUALIFICATIONS & SKILLS:
Minimum Qualifications:
    Masters in finance / Accounting/ Business from a recognised university 
    Recognised Treasury/Accounting qualification. (CertITM, FRM, etc.) and (preferably MBA in Finance / Accounting from a reputable University)
Minimum Experience:
•    4-5 years of practical experience of working in the Treasury front office function of a large, international organisation
Skills:
    Understanding of derivatives like forwards, futures and swaps.
    Microsoft Office, including Advances Excel and PowerPoint.
    Strong financial analysis skills
    Ability to work on platform of data providers like Bloomberg, Reuters and Fast Market.
    Ability to work in SAP.
    Understanding of Treasury Management Systems.
    Interpersonal and negotiation skills