Treasury Analyst - FX Risk

Company

Puma Energy is a leading global energy business which supplies, stores and distributes petroleum products in 47 countries across six continents. Founded in 1997, Puma Energy has its headquarters in Singapore and Geneva and employs over 8,000 people globally with regional hubs in South Africa, Puerto Rico and Estonia and have recently setup a Global Delivery Centre in Mumbai (India).

Main Purpose

• Responsible for Treasury controlling and reporting of Group positions and managing/deployment of strategies of mitigation of Foreign Exchange Risk for Puma Energy group companies.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Perform the daily activities connected with FX risk monitoring, including:

o Compiling exposure reports

o Record in the appropriate systems the details of the hedging

strategies deployed

• ·Strong understanding of FX products including SPOT, Forwards, SWAPs and structured FX trades.

• ·Monitor global macroeconomic indicators, central bank policies, and technical/fundamental market conditions.

• Perform accurate allocation of the Hedge Results to the relative profit centre and liaise with Deals Desk in case of any discrepancy

• Support Treasury in relation to payments in foreign currency in accordance with corporate policies and management guidelines

• Support the hedge accounting process

• Provide support to the other members of the FX Risk Management Team on ad-hoc analysis and research

• Daily, weekly, monthly financial reporting of cash and debt positions, financial results, and foreign currency (FX) results.
• Monitor interest rate and FX risk in close partnership with Treasury FX Risk & markets team.
• End to end controlling of Treasury transactions to ensure execution, recording, accounting, and documentation of the transactions follow internal controls.
• Implementation of an accounting interface from Treasury management system (Kyriba) to ERP system
• Ownership of market data and related interfaces for the Group’s reporting needs and ensuring their timely availability
• Review and ensure global compliance with Treasury policies and SOPs including recommending and implementing best practices
• Contact person for both internal and external audit involving Treasury topics
• Manage interfaces with various stakeholders including Treasury teams (inhouse bank & global cash management, FX Risk and global subsidiary Treasury, Treasury systems), Accounting, Controlling, Tax, IT and Business Service centre Mumbai
• Act as interface to accounting and controlling function for various activities
• Involvement in various Treasury projects

Experience:

· At least Two year of relevant work experience with exposure to Foreign Exchange markets

· Bachelor’s degree in finance or economics

· Excellent English

· Be flexible, open minded, comfortable in working with firm deadlines and able to handle stress situations

· Good team-player and an open personality with energy and drive

· Basic knowledge of Microsoft Office and flair for IT systems

• Experienced in treasury-related accounting, reporting and analysis, especially FX risk
• Work experience in Accounting beneficial, could be gained in an accounting role/projects or working within Treasury, but interacting closely with Accounting department.
• Good reporting skills, especially in the preparation of management reports, dashboards and KPIs
• Strong numeracy and analytical skills, including the ability to interpret numbers and provide insights
• Experience with Kyriba/Bloomberg/Reuters is an advantage
• Proficiency in MS Office (especially Excel, Word and PowerPoint)

Skills

· FX risk management

· Treasury controlling and reporting

· Analytical mindset

· Understanding of Treasury and accounting concepts.

Key Relationships:

· Banks and Brokers

· FX Trader and Back Office

· Operational Treasury

· Trading Desk