Main Purpose:
Puma Energy is seeking a Manager with global liquidity management experience. Primary responsibilities include cash flow forecasting, identifying opportunities to improve working capital by optimizing cash upstream from various entities along with other initiatives and performing complex analysis to assess variances, change in working capital etc.
Knowledge Skills and Abilities, Key Responsibilities:
Experience:
- 8+ years of F,P&A experience in a global/regional role covering cash flow forecasting, financial modelling & reporting, working capital management and managing diverse stakeholder relationships including people management in a corporate multinational environment.
Skills:
- Ability to prioritize, organize, effectively manage time and work independently with minimal guidance.
- Excellent financial modelling, planning & analytical skills along with focus & very strong attention to detail. Should be able to perform a cause & effect analysis.
- Strong business acumen and excellent communication skills. Should be capable to interact with multiple stakeholders based across the globe including Global CFO and other senior personnel in HQ.
- Advanced MS Office experience.
- Drive for problem-solving.
- Possesses pro-active attitude, is self-motivated and able to work in a fast paced, multi-tasking environment.
Competencies:
- Knowledge of cash and liquidity management in a complex entity structure.
- Foreign exchange and debt management experience.
- Should be familiar with cash pooling & zero balancing sweeps.
Mandatory Education:
- M.B.A. (Finance) or equivalent is required. Additional qualifications such as CFA/FRM would be an advantage.
IT Systems:
- Experience with Excel – VBA
- Python would be an advantage.
- HFM knowledge would be good to have.
- Experience with Microsoft Navision would be good to have.
Key Responsibilities:
- Review global liquidity forecast consolidated on a weekly basis.
- Perform variance analysis & prepare cash bridge to ascertain major movements driving changes in liquidity forecast.
- Monitor & potentially foresee the impact on liquidity of any critical business move known beforehand and work with all concerned stakeholders to eliminate/minimize the same.
- Liaise with concerned teams to resolve any disconnect observed in the core input sources such as trade payables, hedge settlements etc.
- Update & reconcile net debt and take up material differences with all relevant stakeholders. Prepare a bridge especially for quarter ends to see debt movement across the group.
- Lead internal project on cash management – covers cash flow reviews of countries across regions besides monitoring collections for accurate inputs in cash flow forecasts of all major entities in the group.
- Drive liquidity planning & working capital improvement by identifying opportunities to have maximum cash upstream to the group to minimize idle cash or overdues to Supply entities.
- Identify process improvements and steer them.
- Perform sensitivity analysis to simulate impact of changes in major business variables owing to macroeconomic environment.
- Other ad-hoc reporting and analysis as required
Key Relationships and Department Overview:
Internal & External stakeholders