Group Cash Manager

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The Proximus Corporate Finance & Treasury team is the place where we manage the group’s liquidity, funding and capital allocation by ensuring the operations has the capital it needs to manage its day-to-day activities, while developing the long-term financial strategy & policies.

We ensure the company always has sufficient liquidity to meet the financial obligations of the Group and we manage financial market risks with due diligence.

In a nutshell: our mission is to ensure that the right amounts are always available in the right currency, at the right time, in the right place, and at the right cost, in order to maximize profits and minimize financial costs.

We are one of the smaller and lesser-known teams in the Group Finance community, but we are on the crossroads of all finance disciplines that serves the entire group,and we are in constant contact with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders.

Today, we are looking for a Group Cash Manager, reporting to the Global Corporate Finance and Treasury Lead, to complete the team.

**Role description & responsibilities**

As Group Cash Manager you will be entrusted with the management of the net cash position of the Proximus Group and its subsidiaries in order to ensure best use of cash by **maximizing returns** of excess cash and **minimizing financial costs** of cash shortages. Therefore, you will develop & maintain adequate liquidity reporting tools in order to provide senior management with a view of Proximus Group liquidity, including working capital monitoring, cash forecasting and budgeting.

You will manage the **daily cash and liquidity** position of the Proximus Group to ensure efficient use of such cash and sufficient liquidity, including the management of the intercompany short-term funding of all affiliates. Including identification of financial risks related to cash management and the implementation of corrective actions.

You will **negotiate bank deposits and loans** linked to short term cash positions in order to obtain the best market conditions.

You will develop, implement and maintain the **cash & credit reporting at Group level** but also for each and every affiliate.

You will develop, implement and maintain a consolidated liquidity and bank statement for each affiliate as decision support for senior management.

You will develop, implement and maintain group wide **liquidity planning & forecasting tools** with a view to achieve the best possible projections of future funding needs, based on available business information. This will allow you to identify opportunities to streamline processes and find techniques to improve the cash flow efficiency. For this you will assess further digitalization and automation tools.

You will monitor and manage the transition of existing affiliates and newly acquired entities from various levels of (de)centralisation towards a fully-fledged central group treasury or in-house bank setup.

Your Profile

**Experience & knowledge**
- Proven experience and genuine long-term interest in the international cash management domain and the treasury operations in general.
- Ideally you have worked in an international context (corporate) and are able to steer the liquidity globally.
- Proven and relevant knowledge and experience in multiple treasury aspects (cash management, currency management, risk exposure, funding and bank lending knowledge,).
- Extensive digital savviness, with excellent MS Office skills, eagerness to explore & implement new IT tools and if possible, with a proven experience in finance/treasury automation.
- A university degree (Master) or equivalent through experience, with minimum 3-5 years in Finance environments.
- Fluency in English, French and/or Dutch.

**Attitudes/Behaviour**
- You have an analytical mindset with a constructive & pragmatic problem-solving approach.
- You are autonomous, efficient, organized and you can respect deadlines.
- You are used to work precisely and have an eye for detail.
- Your oral/written communication skills are excellent and balanced, with assertiveness & respect.
- You are result driven, stress resistant, flexible and take initiative.
- You have excellent interpersonal skills and can work in team and build bridges with business counterparts.
- You are eager to learn and you have an open mind for new ideas.

What do we offer you?
- We are 100% Belgian. So we make decisions in three languages. And all at the same time if you like
- We are open to everyone: M, W, X, and in fact all the other letters of the alphabet.
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