Group Treasurer

Overview

In 2024, we are pursuing our ambitions to continue to enable organizations’ digital transformation. We are looking for our new Group Treasurer to join Axway’s family. Are you ready? Join us now!!

Together, we can. Together, we will. Axway is an enterprise integration company that’s been around for over 20 years to digitally transform businesses of all sizes with more than 11,000 customers in 100 countries. Axway revitalizes IT infrastructures to enable brilliant digital customer experiences to unlock new business innovation and capabilities. Axway puts companies on a secure, future-proof path for growth.

With Axway, you’ll go far because we’re better together. You’ll exchange ideas with a culturally rich global community of over 1,550 members who connect remotely or show up onsite in every time zone. And you’ll have the support and camaraderie of your Axway leadership and colleagues to remind you that you’re not alone on your journey and have taken one more step forward every day. Together, we can accomplish anything. Learn more: www.axway.com.

Responsibilities

As a supervisor of all treasury activities and in charge of overall bank relations, the Group Treasurer reports to the Group CFO and is accountable for the performance and security of operational treasury processes including:

Cash management

• Monitoring Cash management processes (including corporate payments) to ensure the proper execution of payments from customers or to suppliers as well as the implementation of the Group’s policies
• Monitoring and supporting the free cash flow generation and the cash pooling/cash centralization of the corresponding entities.
• Driving the bank relations, KYC procedures, and bank accounts management and rationalization
• Providing support and advice on cash investment if applicable
• Optimization of bank fees and financial income and expense
• Supervising bank mandates approval and update through the dedicated Treasury workflow.

FX exposure

• Monitoring the FX exposure, FX P&L and FX transactions of the relevant entities
• Supervising and providing support on FX management optimization and hedging, in accordance with Group policies

Overseeing and providing support to local teams on any other specific treasury and financing operations, such as Guarantees and cash pledge, Intercompany loans and borrowings, Dividends, Balance sheet structure optimisation

Managing relevant local teams and employees, including steering common projects among local implying Treasury operations

Treasury processes integrity and improvement

• Setting and monitoring the implementation of Group Treasury policies and processes including systems improvement, Kyriba run
• Supporting local teams in the internal audit processes and audit points implementation
• Advising and implementing improvement in Treasury processes and organization to improve security and efficiency in the treasury function
• Setting the reporting structure with KPIs, ie. cash flow, cash forecast, DSO, etc. 

Capital markets and funding

• Trading in the financial markets
• Negotiating loan or overdraft terms with company bankers
• Undertaking risk management activities to protect financial well-being
• Forecasting payments and anticipating future cash flows
• Making decisions about the use of company finances
• Analyzing impact of financial markets on performance of products or services

In addition, the Group Treasurer is closely and actively engaging in projects with other Group Finance departments.

These projects can include:

• Business development projects
• Carve-out of businesses, or merger of entities, optimization of legal and regulated entities’ organizations.

Qualifications

Who Are We Looking For

• Master’s degree or equivalent experience in accountancy, business studies, economics, finance, mathematics,
• 15-20 years of experience including at least 10 years of management experience in an international business environment
• Fluent in French & English, a third language is a plus;
• Strong financial and Treasury expertise, with significant corporate Treasury experience; payment knowledge is a plus;
• Excellent leadership skills and ability to effectively manage, lead and supervise a multidisciplinary team, within or outside direct span of control
• Excellent analytical background in financial matters, including ability to generate and review financial data
• Able to report on an executive level
• Strong communication and business partnering skills
• Work in a proactive and diplomatic manner
• Excellent command of generic IT tools, including Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, as well finance-specific tools 5Finance ERP, SAP, any other), and a Treasury management system. Knowledge of FIS Integrity is a plus.

Axway is EEO and AA employer.

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