Role Summary
The role of Head of Investment at Coronation Insurance will be to lead the delivery of strategic treasury capabilities that allow the organization achieve optimal business outcomes.
Principal Duties & Responsibilities
Business Advisory and Stakeholder Management
Provide advisory services to the Board, Executive Management, and other stakeholders on best-fit strategies, operational plan, working capital requirements, and liquidity management, by leveraging on own deep expertise in strategy, and knowledge of key environmental trends, internal dynamics/resources and operating environment.
Build valued relationships with stakeholders at the strategic level, and assemble coalitions, to support long term business development.
Foreign Currency and Market Risk Management
Develop strategy, policies, and tools to support the ongoing management of foreign exchange risk, liquidity and interest rate risks with the aim of mitigating the effects of volatility and unpredicted movement in market valuations (e.g. foreign currencies, interest rate).
Manage the company’s foreign currency activities through the identification of FCY surpluses and deficits, and maintain oversight over active management of FCY windows, administration of FCY inflows into the company, and handling of overseas remittances either on behalf of the company.
Working Capital Management
Define and manage the company’s strategy and processes for projecting, monitoring, analyzing, and optimizing its cash-flow, assets and liabilities through ratio analysis of operating expenses (e.g. working capital ratio, collection ratio), with the aim of ensuring the company is capable of continuing operations, and satisfying short-term debt, and upcoming operational expenses.
Proactively engage various functions across the Company in respect to their capital/operating expenditure to determine periodic forecasts on working capital, provide cashflow forecast /position to Executive Management, and propose solutions where required.
Transactional Treasury Processes
Implement company’s policy on capital structure by ensuring an appropriate distribution between debt and equity to minimize cost of funds (CoF) and maintain CoF within the Company’s prescribed band.
Manage Relationships with Financial Institutions
Manage the organization’s relationships with other financial institutions (i.e. banks, fund custodians, trustees etc.), by negotiating favorable investment terms on behalf of the organization, escalating potential settlement failures to the Treasurers of other financial institutions to avoid unwanted outcomes, and managing the organization’s relationship with its designated banks.
What we are looking for
Required Skills and Competencies
Knowledge
Macroeconomic Analysis
Market and Regulatory Environments
Skills
Strategy
Treasury Management
Business Acumen
Behavior
Analytical Thinking
Entrepreneurship
Relationship Building for Influencing
Leading and Developing Others
Drive for Results
Educational Qualification and Experience
A minimum of a Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited university
Advanced business degree (preferably an MBA) is an added advantage
Minimum of 8-10 years’ relevant experience within a financial services company
Relevant experience in insurance will be a huge advantage.
Professional certification in finance and/or accounting from a recognized professional body (e.g. CFA, CGMA, ACCA, ICAN etc.)
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV to: careers@coronationinsurance.com.ng using “Head, Investment” as the subject of the mail.
Apply via :
careers@coronationinsurance.com.ng
