Treasury Middle Office Manager

Euronext

Euronext’s purpose is to shape capital markets for future generations. As such, Euronext has a special position in the financial ecosystem. It serves the real economy by bringing together buyers and sellers in transparent, efficient and reliable trading venues. In this key role, Euronext has a responsibility to the whole finance community, not only to ensure financial stability, but to contribute decisively to a sustainable growth model in the countries in which it operates. A central element of Euronext work is engaging with its customers, European and local public  authorities, and policymakers, to help shape the regulatory and policy issues that impact the financial sector and empower sustainable finance.

Euronext is the leading pan-European market infrastructure, connecting European economies to global capital markets, to accelerate innovation and sustainable growth. It operates regulated exchanges in Belgium, France, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway and Portugal.

Euronext operates regulated and transparent equity and derivatives markets, one of Europe’s leading electronic fixed income trading markets and is the largest centre for debt and funds listings in the world. Its total product offering includes Equities, FX, Exchange Traded Funds, Warrants & Certificates, Bonds, Derivatives, Commodities and Indices. The Group provides a multi-asset clearing house through Euronext Clearing, and custody and settlement services through Euronext Securities central securities depositories in Denmark, Italy, Norway and Portugal.

Euronext also leverages its expertise in running markets by providing technology and managed services to third parties. In addition to its main regulated market, it also operates a number of junior markets, simplifying access to listing for SMEs.

Our Finance department

Finance supports the Euronext organisation and its management.  It is accountable for the accurate financial representation of Euronext operations.  

Finance is in charge of keeping the books of the company, produces the budget and forecast as well as all financial indicators necessary for the effective  management of the company. The financial information is made available internally (management reporting) and externally (annual report, quarterly communication to the analysts, ..). Our Finance teams count more than profesionnals across all our locations in Europe

Within Finance, the Treasury team plays a central role interacting with internal finance departments including account payables, account receivables, General Ledger, Financial Performance and Analysis and external parties (e.g. financial institutions and external auditors), processing Group payments and managing Group cash position, liquidity, financial debt, financial risks and insurance program.

Key accountabilities

As Middle Office Manager  of the Treasury department of Euronext, you will exert permanent control of all treasury investment transactions, including intercompany transactions, make an ongoing assessment of compliance with Group and local treasury investment policies, and ensure best in class middle office procedures in line with Euronext core model and its Treasury processes. You will be required to make optimal use of the treasury management system and play a key role in implementing the automation of treasury reports, including cash position reconciliation and cash forecast. You will make treasury contributions to the preparation of Euronext financial statements and provide external and internal auditors with relevant information in relation to the control of financial assets and liabilities. You will maintain bank account mandates and act as the main contact person for bank KYC reviews and regulatory reports.

Your key responsibilities can embed:

•  Manage the treasury middle office activities in relation to liquidity management, treasury investments, ensuring a pivotal role between front office and back office activities

• Contribute to the automation and maintain comprehensive Group treasury reports, including cash position, analysis of cash variations, cash forecast and financial risks reports

• Monitor and report limits and counterpart exposures to the Treasurer, Group Finance Directors and relevant Finance Directors on an ongoing basis

• Maintain intercompany loan portfolio and provide back office with instructions for timely interest and loan repayments

• Assist the Treasurer in defining rules to optimize settlements of intercompany transactions within the Euronext Group and reduce transaction costs

• Control interest income on bank balances and treasury investments, including intercompany transactions

• Perform month end closing activities and provide back office team with monthly accounting entry schemes as necessary

• Monitor subsidiary liquidity to ensure compliance with regulatory requirements and report to the Treasurer and the relevant Finance Directors any situation which may cause liquidity breaches in a timely fashion

• Interact with other finance support functions of Euronext, mainly Account Payables, Account Receivables, Group Consolidation and Group Risk & Compliance, (Denmark, Dublin, Milan, Oslo, Paris, Porto, Rome, New-York…), and provide all treasury information required for their activities as necessary

• Exert vigilance to Fraud and Cyber risks an maintain awareness through training and learning

Your profile

Experience

• Minimum of 5-8 years of professional experience in Finance in an international and complex/regulated organizations

• Knowledge of Treasury, liquidity management, financial risk

• Strong experience in performance, risk and KPI analysis, mgt reporting and presentation/discussion of data and results

• Knowledge of a Treasury Management System is valued, but not mandatory

Education and Knowledge

• Master’s degree in Finance or equivalent financial background

• Comprehensive understanding of financial instruments

• Accounting knowledge

• Mastering basic reporting tools and reporting automatization (e.g.: excel).

• Evolute tools knowledge is a plus (e.g.: PowerBI, Python, etc)

• Proven Microsoft office skills, in particular Excel (VBA strongly appreciated) , Microsoft Power BI

• Strong team worker, open minded, transparent in communication, high level of cooperation

• Ability to maintain a high level of confidentiality, integrity and trust

• Able to use fluently spoken and written English as corporate language

• Keen on maintaining high level of excellence in providing reliable data with strong attention to details

• Process oriented – minded – well organized and able to prioritize as necessary

• Highly motivated, proactive and self starter, willing and able to learn, demonstrate initiative

• Open to innovation / automation of processes

We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate against individuals on the basis of race, gender, age, citizenship, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, or any other legally protected factor. We value the unique talents of all our people, who come from diverse backgrounds with different personal experiences and points of view and we are committed to providing an environment of mutual respect.

This job description is only describing the main activities within a certain role and is not exhaustive. It does not prevent to add more tasks, projects.