Senior Treasury Officer - ECOM Agro-industrial Corp. Limited

This portfolio is part of the Treasury department under Finance and Accounts and its overall responsibility is to Supervise and coordinate the work of treasury officers in daily treasury functions including payment processing, liquidity management and treasury reporting. The role will be reporting to the Treasury Manager and support in banking relationship management, forex trading, strategic planning and implementation of treasury policy.

Key Responsibilities

Payment Processing

• Coordinate workflow among the treasured team, other departments, and banks.
• Review all payment instructions and SAP posting to ensure completeness and accuracy
• Approve SAP Payment Run for batch payments
• Send payment instructions to banks and follow up to ensure payments are executed on time
• Process interbank and inter-company transfers to ensure efficient utilization of funds across the group.
• Monitor daily closing – ensure all vendor payments & petty cash transactions a posted in SAP each day
• Process cocoa/cashew funding requests. Ensure funding gets to the district account the following day maximum
• Review and approve MoMo payment requests before cash transfer

Treasury Reporting

• Daily closing reporting (SAP Posting)
• Daily payment status and incidence reporting (swift-network & bank platform).
• Other treasury and group reporting

Banking Relations & Correspondence

• Request for bank statements and swift advice when required
• Send reports, and schedules, and provide any relevant information requested by bank
• Provide documentation for account opening/closing, online setup and updating mandate
• Forex indicative rate inquiries

Other Duties

• Advise internal customers and vendors on status or payment and provide swift advice when required.
• Maintain and update the register of banking signatories
• Maintain bank master data and ensure SAP master data is updated
• Ensure all documentation (bank advice, bank statement, PV) are properly filled and stored in shared-folder for easy reference and retrieval
• Follow-up with inventory staff to ensure the district account a posted and reconciled in SAP
• Follow-up with the operations team to provide supporting documents for customer deposits
• When new banks are added – set up of MT940, update the system, internet banking set up etc.

Qualifications, Skills and Behaviours

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting/Finance.
• +6 years’ experience in treasury management for any trading, manufacturing company or bank.
• Be a Chartered Accountant OR Partly qualified in ACCA/ICA/CIMA
• Must have experience in SAP Payment Run, Swift Payment and MT940 Statements
• Advanced analytical skills
• Advanced spreadsheet and modeling skills
• Ability to work independently
• Good project-, time management skills and the ability to work towards tight deadlines
• Excellent collaboration, verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to think outside the box and have an innovative approach