Role Overview
The Senior Corporate Finance Manager will report to the CFO and be responsible for optimal capital planning and structuring, assisting on M&A transactions, developing and implementing treasury strategies to optimize liquidity, maximize returns on investments, manage cashflow and covenant forecasting, ensure sufficient liquidity, implement hedging strategies, oversee banking relationships, evaluate treasury management systems and other financial technologies to streamline processes. The Senior Treasury Manager / Senior Corporate Finance Manager will also provide accurate and timely reporting, be effective in their engagement with stakeholders and design appropriate financial corporate policies, guidelines and procedures for a growing business.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide the appropriate level of financial management and governance together with commercial insights and value add to the Executive Team and broader business leadership.
- Drive business optimisation initiatives with a strong lens on growing the business, while remaining within the risk appetite as defined by the CEO and Board of Managers
- Develop concise and meaningful KPIs, systems/processes, controls, procedures, and reports to accurately and timely monitor and report operational and financial results against budget, plan and forecast
- Commitment to innovation and review in ensuring continuous improvement in operational processes
- Assist with developing the company’s budget and 5-year business plan where required
- Develop appropriate dashboards to manage working capital and financial performance
- Monitor the financial and capital strategy of FiberLight and keep the Executive Team and the Board informed as of compliance with key financial covenants and limits
- Lead capital structure and debt refinancing strategies to ensure the business maintains a flexible capital structure and funding to meet its growth objectives'
- Manage, implement and improve the company’s treasury cash management strategies
- Monitor cash flow, credit and collections, analyzing daily cash balances, and customer payment processing/application to customer balances
- Perform cash, working capital and covenant forecasting
- Develop and execute on hedging strategies
- Manage relationships with key lenders
- Responsible for meeting all reporting requirements for lenders
- Evaluate M&A opportunities
- Evaluate key large scale projects and continue to track financial performance of these projects post-award
- Co-ordination with the Executive Leadership Team and the Sales teams on financial implications of pipeline of large scale projects
- Prepare board materials required to approve large capital projects
Qualifications
- Degree in Finance or Business;
- CFA qualification preferred;
- 8+ years of relevant experience within Finance with extensive experience in financial management, treasury, corporate finance/investment banking;
- Advanced modelling skills including a high level of proficiency in Excel;
- Advanced proficiency in PowerPoint with the ability to create and present executive level presentations;
- Experience of working in businesses characterised by recurring capital-intensive transactions, including for example, telecommunications, and major infrastructure businesses, together with relevant adjacencies; and
- Experience working with private equity owners.
- A strong understanding of GAAP and tax would be looked upon favorably.
Interpers
onal skills / personal attributes
The ideal candidate will possess the following attributes:
- Strategically minded and focused on extracting and correlating financial figures to help the business make relevant decisions, which are closely aligned with its strategic outcomes.
- Articulate, credible and proactive in their approach and, most importantly, to have a thorough understanding of where the business can create value and progress against its objectives.
- An entrepreneurial and dynamic individual with the ability to work at pace and be ahead of the curve. They will bring a strong future focus, with the ability to think two or three steps ahead.
- Tactical and prepared to get hands on and involved.
- Project management and organizational skills.
- Familiarity with the nuances and expectations of working in a privately owned organization and addressing multiple senior stakeholders.
- Highly detail orientated.
- Motivated to drive continuous improvement for the business; and
- Able to help establish the organization culturally, being collaborative, open, transparent, and authentic.
