General Manager - Treasury & Banking - FMCG

The ideal candidate for this role is a seasoned leader in Banking, Trade Finance, Forex, and Treasury functions, with experience in organizations that have successfully managed scale and growth, while building a global footprint. The individual must bring in experience of best-in-class practices across the entire spectrum of Export Documentation related to Banking, Execution Skills in Forex Hedging, and Treasury.

The candidate must bring a demonstrated track record in shaping an organization's Banking strategy pertaining to Export Documentation and have the presence and conviction to execute it along with other related experience. A blend of experience of working with large export houses and banking industry would be a positive. Potential candidate should have been exposed to the Export operations.

THE ROLE:

Trade Finance:

- Adept in the creation and handling of export documentation including but not limited to, Bills of Lading, Certificates of Origin, the negotiation of Letters of Credit

- Directing, supervising and controlling the overall functioning of Export Documentation department.

- Ensuring preparation and submission of Export Documents within timelines.

- To identify bottlenecks and their resolution by coordinating with stakeholders

- Ensuring compliance with FEMA.

- Supervising operations of the accounts receivable with focus on ensuring efficient processing (payment allocation, reconciliation and month-end reporting) of company receivables and timely collection in accordance with company policies

- Managing day-to-day operational risk management activities such as risk and controls assessments, incident capture and analysis, and scenario analysis and planning

- Managing trade finance products and negotiations with bankers for customized Trade finance products for different sales channels.

- Preparing analysis of bad debts and reducing the same by negotiating credit

- Operating all established collection procedures for achieving targeted results while promoting excellent customer support to external and internal customers

- Ensuring the timely collection of outstanding payment in accordance with policies and procedures of the company

- Contacting with customers by all means of positive effective communication regarding all unpaid balances

Forex Hedging

- Assess, forecast and control overall funding requirement of company.

- Monitor the FX exposure and take informed decision on hedging of exposure.

- Hedging & Exchange risk analysis.

Treasury Management

- Liaison & follow up with banks/institutions for arranging the funds & maintaining the adequate level of liquidity for all entities.

- Mobilized both funds based and non-fund-based financing under Multiple

Banking arrangement for all entities.

- Cash flow forecasting, preparing actual, maintaining the adequate level of liquidity for cash outflow, monitoring day to day cash inflow & outflow,

- Continuous monitoring the intercompany cash pool remittances. Monitoring the overseas interest & principal payments on time.

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