Treasurer, Europe

Thomas Cook

Job Title: Treasurer, Continental Europe

Department/ Business Area: Group Finance / Treasury

Location: Germany / Oberursel

Role overview: As a key member of the Treasury Leadership Team leading the European-wide Treasury operations in Germany, France, Netherlands, Belgium & Russia including responsibility for local bank relationship management, negotiating local bank facilities. Driving a cash culture throughout European operations by ensuring best practice in cash control, efficient cash management and cash forecasting.

Key Tasks:

• Leading the cash management department across all European markets with a high number of direct reports.
• As a key member of the Treasury Leadership team implementing and leading the Treasury Transformation across Europe (excl. UK)
• Manage the teams responsible for Bank accounting and posting all bank statements ensuring senior level review.
• Responsible for daily cash disposition / coordination with Group Treasury
• Responsibility for cash flow forecasts on Europe level both short and medium terms.
• Managing and maintaining local cash pools, relationships to local banks and insurances, including negotiation of local contracts, terms and conditions with banks or insurances
• Scheduling, scoping and managing other international projects on Continental Europe level (PCI, SEPA, software implementation)
• Responsibility for interest forecast / budget Continental Europe, maintaining all intercompany loans / contracts and managing intercompany cash pools (accounting wise)
• Provide strong, united and inspiring leadership across all areas, to drive employee engagement through a collaborative and empowering leadership approach.
• Lead activity to increase shareholder value, EBIT and cash, maximise margins and achieve and sustain cost leadership in area of expertise.
• Lead, drive and deliver sustainable improvements in working capital/ free cash flow by working with business to optimise our cash performance, implementing changes to procedures and processes where necessary.

Personal Skills/ Knowledge:
Essential:

• Strong leader with experience working in an international organisation, experienced in treasury, cash management and cash forecasting
• Demonstrable senior stakeholder management experience.
• Creative problem solver with analytical skills; strong in Project Management.
• Demonstrable record of delivering change, business improvement and commercial value in previous roles.
• Self-confidence, communication skills, conflict management skill
• English fluency both verbally and written with a European language preferred – German advantageous.
• Experienced in dealing with people during a period of change, with a focus on mind-sets and behaviours
• Initiative and drive
• Works at pace and self-starter in managing priorities
• Works on own direction and provides clear direction for others.
• Experience of implementing and delivering of cash management.

Preferred:
• Master’s in Business Administration
• Association of Corporation Treasurers or equivalent.

 

Technical/ Professional Qualifications
• AMCT or MCT
• Qualified Accountant
• Competent user of Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint

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