Manager Treasury

Synopsis

Let your career take off with the World’s Leading Airline, Etihad Airways. Work in the forefront of the airline and travel industry, with the airline that has reimagined the flying experience through its pioneering products and services.

We are looking for a Hedging expert to join our Treasury team:

• Enhance resilience of company’s balance sheet by continuously monitoring the financial risk management opportunities and timely hedging to preserve the company’s financial strength against volatilities in oil, Interest rate, forex and carbon markets. Also, manage the Spot FX trading on a timely basis. 
• Support implementation of airline’s long-term hedging strategy for oil, Interest rate and forex and carbon markets to ensure that the Group is well positioned to address the value at risk (VaR) and provide stability to P&L.  
• Provide an insight into the hedging strategy including the mix of hedging tenor and derivative products being used.

Accountabilities

• Provide strategic recommendations on hedging strategy including quantifying the exposure, identifying correct underlying risk / proxy to hedge, the suitable derivative structures to use and the tenor of hedge such that the hedging volumes remain within approved limits and the company is not exposed to under or over hedging. 
• Track the dynamic developments in financial markets to ensure that informed decisions are taken with a thorough research. 
• Present the hedging proposals and market overview with commercial acumen to take timely decisions.
• Manage Spot market sale of FX surpluses such that the company receives best value for its FX using reverse auction procedure such as 360T.
• Support liquidity planning team in placement of deposits
• Analyse the hedged portfolio performance regularly for a prudent risk management to deliver optimum outcome and manage execution costs and risks. 
• Implement, maintain and refine the trading processes and systems (TMS, Bloomberg, 360T etc.) to ensure the trading discipline required of the company’s scale to ensure strong governance. 
• Represent Group Treasury at hedging counterparts, various committees/ projects and conferences.  
• Support the budgeting and planning exercise for the Group collaborating with FP&A on budget, re-forecasting as well as five-year business plans. 
• Manage group reporting requirements including ADQ reporting as well as year-end financial audits.  
• Support Head of Corporate Finance & Financial Risk Management in periodic update of Hedging Policy.
• Develop and maintain excellent business relationship with Etihad (FP&A, Financial Reporting, Corporate Strategy) & external stakeholders.

Education & Experience

• Bachelor's degree from a leading institution in the field of finance or related area. Formal certification from the ACT, CFA, FRM or an MBA in Finance is desirable.
• A minimum of 5 years’ experience, at least 3 years in a financial risk management role, within risk management functions, banking, or the Treasury function of a large corporate. 
• Strong knowledge of financial markets, Excel, PowerPoint/BI, TMS and Bloomberg