Head of Treasury Front Office

Job Description - Head of Treasury Front Office (R1D)

Job Description

Head of Treasury Front Office ( Job Number: R1D )

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London, UK

The Head of Treasury Front Office is responsible for managing the company's financial resources in order to help meet the company's business objectives. This is achieved through strategic planning and decision making, tactical implementation and building relationships across a wide group of stakeholders.

The role is responsible for the division's financing activities, incl. revolving credit and loan facilities, and debt movements, as well as managing the overall relationship with the division's banking relationships and with AXA Group Treasury. It is responsible for making effective use of cash to ensure there is always liquidity available for upcoming obligations and for managing a variety of different internal and external risks, such as foreign exchange risk and counterparty credit risk, leveraging the effective use of technology, as well as keeping up to date with regulatory requirements and ensuring compliance. The team has responsibility for approving manual (or urgent) payments but (for segregation of duties) is unable to set-up payments or payment details.

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What will your essential responsibilities include?

• Manage AXA XL's financing activities, incl. revolvingi credit facilities, bank and syndicated loan facilities (incl. LOCs) and internal and external debt movement
• Owning all aspects of short-term liquidity management across the division, including cash pool management and account funding, counterparty credit exposure, collateral requirements and interactions with the Investment department and Regional Finance teams
• AXA XL's overall foreign currency management, involving exposure management, sensitivity analysis, market transactions (incl. hedging) and reporting, as well as validating FX results in AXA XL's quarterly financial statements
• Establishing comprehensive forward-looking view of cashflows for short-term forecasting and longer-term budgeting and managing the interactions with stakeholders, including Investments, FP&A and Regional Finance
• Lead relationship with AXA Group Treasury as it relates to AXA policies and standards, as well as transaction activities (e.g., share plans, debt plans, etc.)
• Overseeing the relationship with AXA XL's banking partners across all aspects of interactions, including banking service quality, systems, transaction activity

You will report to Head of Treasury.

We're looking for someone who has these abilities and skills:

• Bachelor's Degree in Finance, Accounting, or related degree or equivelent experience.
• Proven relevant experience either in Financial Services, Insurance or Treasury Operations.
• Solid understanding of the banking system, financial markets, products and risk factors.

Desired Skills and Abilities:

• A Treasury or Accounting qualification
• Significant experience partnering at the executive level. Takes initiative. Ability to lead and act independently, think in global terms and demonstrate excellent business acumen.
• Solid and proven experience in FX and Cash management
• Strong leadership skills managing a global team and particularly ensuring the sharing of experience, knowledge and skills across the team to create a stable and sustainable Team, ensuring no dependency on one role.
• Develop and maintain productive working relationships with internal and external stakeholders. Provide guidance and seek input from others as needed to achieve the best result possible. Capable of leading and collaborating with a virtual team, across multiple diverse geographies and cultures.

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AXA XL, the P&C and specialty risk division of AXA, is known for solving complex risks. For mid-sized companies, multinationals and even some inspirational individuals we don't just provide re/insurance, we reinvent it.

How? By combining a comprehensive and efficient capital platform, data-driven insights, leading technology, and the best talent in an agile and inclusive workspace, empowered to deliver top client service across all our lines of business property, casualty, professional, financial lines and specialty.

With an innovative and flexible approach to risk solutions, we partner with those who move the world forward.

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Inclusion & Diversity

At AXA XL, we know that an inclusive culture and a diverse workforce enable business growth and are critical to our success. That's why we have made a strategic commitment to attract, develop, advance and retain the most diverse workforce possible, and create an inclusive culture where everyone can bring their full selves to work and can reach their highest potential. It's about helping one another - and our business - to move forward and succeed.

Our enterprise I&D mission is to become the most inspiring company to work for. We'll achieving this through our three areas of focus:

• Drive an Inclusive Culture-create a global workplace that works for everyone, with a culture that values all individuals, backgrounds and ideas, and where every colleague feels safe, valued and respected.
• Diversify Our Workforce-increase the representation of women in leadership, achieving 50% by 2023, and focus on underrepresented populations by region, positioning AXA XL as an employer of choice for all talent.
• Support Our Marketplace & Communities-support our communities and visibly and thoughtfully champion equity around the globe.

At AXA XL our approach to corporate responsibility (CR) is the same as our approach to business; constantly seeking to provide innovative solutions to the world's most complex problems. From offering our expertise, products and services to help build more resilient communities, to advancing understanding and response to climate change, our strategy - Our Impact. Our Future. - aligns key issues that are pertinent to our business - climate, water and financial resilience - and contributes to AXA Group's purpose to "Act for human progress by protecting what matters.".

• Climate: We're reducing our carbon footprint, protecting ecosystems and exploring how our business can help build a better world.
• Water: We're developing water resilience where it is - and will be - needed most.
• Financial resilience: We're helping create opportunities for the unemployed and underemployed, so they can be better prepared for unexpected changes.
• Hearts in Action: We have established volunteering and charitable giving programs to help colleagues support causes that matter most to them, known as our "Hearts in Action" programs.

Location : GB-GB-London Work Locations : GB London 20 Gracechurch Street 20 Gracechurch Street London London EC3V 0BG

Job Field : Finance

Schedule : Full-time

Job Type : Standard

AXA XL is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate against any colleague or applicant for employment on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, sex, gender identity and/or expression, sexual orientation, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, military status or any other category protected by local law.