1. Purpose of the Job
The Associate Director, Treasury APAC is responsible for treasury operations management of the APAC zone. Budweiser APAC is a standalone subsidiary of AB Inbev, the world’s largest brewer. The Associate Director is to lead treasury operations to ensure effective monitoring and management of cash, investments, commodities and FX forecasting and exposure across Bud APAC countries (including China, East Asia (Korea and Japan), India and Southeast Asia) to 1) maximize cash flow and optimize liquidity; 2) develop cash concentration, repatriation and pooling structures; 3) ensure commodity and FX exposure is efficiently managed with minimum finance cost and maximum return 4) other treasury related requirements as a listing company to fulfill
2. Accountabilities
The Associate Director is responsible for:
- Manage cash liquidity and positioning, ensure effective monitoring and management of cash flows
- Improve and execute cash pooling strategy to optimize liquidity
- Develop effective cash repatriation strategies and expand cross-border funding channels
- Bank facilities negotiation and maintenance
- Collaborate with Global and BU treasury leads to support Commodity and FX risk management, treasury operations and strategic initiatives
- Analyze Commodity and FX exposure forecast on monthly basis to make sure the latest sales, production and sourcing plan are in line with the latest exposure forecast
- Validate monthly postings to hedge accounts, highlighting unusual items and communicating to GHQ/local teams for validation and solution
- Participate in capital allocation related projects as required
- Prepare presentations and updates to senior management on cash management and hedging results as required
- Prepare the below EBITDA net financing costs budget, forecasts, and performance tracking
- Proactively generate ideas that is NPV accretive to the company
- Identify Treasury process improvement opportunities, develop and implement best practice across AB Inbev
3. Business environment
61 Internal stakeholders: GHQ Treasury, BU Treasury, Control team, Procurement, Shared Service Centre
61 External stakeholders: Banks
4. Qualifications and Technical competencies required
Education:
Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees in Economics, Finance, or Business, CFA or MBA preferred
Experience:
61 A minimum of 8 years business experience in corporate finance or banks
61 Demonstrated strength in financial analysis and communication
Technical competencies:
61 Strong oral, written and presentation skills
61 Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
61 Absolute integrity in dealing with confidential and stock price sensitive information
61 The ability to think and act independently. A self-starter.
61 Highly developed influencing skills
61 Helicopter view and strong interest in the business and other matters that might influence
61 Comfort and experience working internationally and with different cultures
61 Fluent in English and Mandarin;