Latam Cash Planner Leader

**Description**:
Reporting to the Global Cash Manager, this position is responsible for LATAM cash management. This includes, but is not limited to:
Overseeing the execution of regional liquidity strategy, including mid to long-term cash flow forecasting to provide a solid insight to sources and uses of funds and then collaborate with tax and controllership to execute the developed strategies.
Leading cross functional discussions on proactively identifying the risks, taking appropriate actions based on cost benefit analysis of various risk mitigating actions considering hedging costs, opportunity cost of funds, borrowing costs, various tax elements and monitoring those actions. Keeping a vigilant eye on the developments around economic, regulatory, and geo-political matters.

Key Relationships: Tax, Controllership, External Banking Partners, Commercial Finance

Key Responsibilities:
Assess LATAM short, medium and long-term cash position and make reliable predictions of legal entities cash needs in the future.
Become a trusted advisor for legal entities and businesses in the region for cash related matters
Partner with the back office on the execution of daily cash positioning activities, including managing daily liquidity, cash position reconciliation, and bank reporting
Supporting global tasks and initiatives including global cash calls, collaborating with cash flow team to reconcile direct vs indirect method, assisting in preparing required reports on high risk countries for audit committee as needed, any other assigned tasks.
Leading cross functional discussions, calls on proactively discussing & identifying the risks, taking appropriate actions and monitoring the progress
Drawing cost benefit analysis of various risk mitigating actions considering hedging costs, opportunity cost of funds, borrowing costs, various tax elements
Keeping a vigilant eye on the developments around economic, regulatory and geo-political matters
Gathering consensus and driving decisions for any actions requiring leadership alignment
Coming up with creative ideas on managing difficult situations
Lead and/or support special projects as required
Support the treasury operations team, as needed

**Qualifications**:
Business Knowledge/Technical Skills:
10+ years of related treasury or finance experience
Expertise or broad understanding of cash management concepts and strategies to support funding mechanisms.
Sound understanding of currency risks and various mitigation actions to reduce the risks like hedging & NMA concepts.
Strong ability to integrate cash management initiatives to broader, company-wide strategies
Strong interpersonal, presentation, organizational, analytical, project management, and communication skills
Proficient in use of financial reporting systems

Specific Job Knowledge
Get an understanding of basic accounting best practices and fundamentals and generally accepted accounting principles
Cash Flow Management Essentials
Financial Statements
Chart of Accounts
Income Statement Forecast
Investments in Marketable and other Securities, bonds
Risk management concepts - Hedging, NMA, Currency
Computer literate in the Microsoft Office Software programs (i.e., Excel, PowerPoint, MS Access, and MSWord).