Manager, Debt & Investment (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia) @ alfanar

• . Job Purpose Manage debt facilities and investment portfolios to support funding requirements, meet repayment obligations, and optimize returns within approved risk and liquidity limits.
• Oversee related transactions, financial exposures, compliance, and reporting in accordance with approved treasury strategies and delegated authority.
• Key Accountability Areas Funding & Debt Management Assess funding requirements and coordinate financing plans with relevant functions.
• Manage debt issuance, drawdowns, repayments, and refinancing activities in accordance with approved strategies.
• Monitor credit facility availability, utilization, maturity profiles, and funding costs.
• Coordinate financing negotiations and facility renewals with financial institutions and relevant stakeholders.
• Investment Portfolio Management Manage investment portfolios within approved risk appetite, liquidity requirements, and return objectives.
• Evaluate investment opportunities and recommend placements or reallocations based on financial assessments.
• Oversee investment transactions and monitor portfolio performance, maturity profiles, and concentration limits.
• Ensure investment decisions consider anticipated funding needs and repayment obligations.
• Liquidity & Financial Risk Review cash flow forecasts to identify funding gaps and funds available for investment.
• Coordinate liquidity scenarios and contingency funding actions with relevant treasury functions.
• Monitor issuer and counterparty exposures and recommend actions addressing concentration risks or credit deterioration.
• Manage foreign currency and interest-rate hedging related to debt and investments within approved policies and limits.
• Compliance & Transaction Control Monitor debt covenants, repayment schedules, and financing obligations and coordinate action on potential breaches.
• Ensure financing, investment, and hedging documentation is complete and appropriately approved.
• Review transactions within delegated authority and ensure compliance with approved funding and investment guidelines.
• Maintain accurate debt and investment records and coordinate supporting information for audits.
• Reporting & Process Improvement Review debt, investment, and financial risk reports, highlighting performance, exposures, and required actions.
• Coordinate with Finance to provide accurate information for related accounting and hedge accounting requirements.
• Improve reporting controls, transaction workflows, and treasury system utilization to strengthen efficiency and data integrity.
• Team Management & Development Assign responsibilities and balance workloads according to funding, investment, and reporting priorities.
• Review team performance and the accuracy and timeliness of assigned activities.
• Provide coaching and identify training needs to strengthen debt, investment, and financial risk capabilities.
• Role Accountability HR Proficiency: Ability to recruit, recognize and cultivate high performers and expose them in order to create a robust second line of management.
• Ability to recognize low performers and guide them to improve or release them.
• Ability to treat subordinates equally without any discrimination.
• Assessment criteria of subordinates is performance that leads to planned results.
• Ensure availability of delegation of authority matrix to have sufficient delegations as per company policy.
• Responsibility: Must take full responsibility for his operation as per the job description and the required deliverables from this position, taking into consideration the general company guidelines.
• Able to anticipate problems and make the necessary proactive steps to prevent them Ability to take necessary and proper timely decisions.
• Delivery: Deliver the required results in timely manner with required quality and cost.
• Making a Tangible Difference: Must make a tangible difference to his area of operation. and exceed business expectations.
• Business Planning and Performance: Able to transform the corporate goals into business plans.
• Able to Plan, follow-up and execute those plans, whether they are annual or development plans.
• Monitor the plan performance and initiate action to strengthen results and take the corrective action accordingly.
• Provide periodic work progress reports.
• Responsible for monitoring and controlling budgets and expenses to achieve the optimum cost efficiency.
• Organizational Development: Develop the organizational structure according to the current requirements taking into consideration future and development plans.
• Ensure availability of job descriptions for all job roles and deployment.
• Business Process Improvements: Develop, coordinate well-defined written systems, policies, procedures, and seek automations opportunities as much as possible.
• Should be conversant and able to navigate through IT solutions especially those relevant to his job and business.
• Promote the automated systems and using them fully, to spread its culture.
• Quality: Quality is considered as alfanar’s prime competitive advantage as such, managers are expected to act accordingly.
• Adaptation: Adapt to new and alternative techniques, technologies, management structures, and business models.
• Health, Safety and Environment: Ensure a safe, secure, and legal work environment as per the standard regulations.

Academic Qualification Bachelor Degree in Accounting and Finance or Any relevant field Work Experience 6 to 10 Years Technical / Functional Competencies Consolidation of Cost Accounts Financial Reporting Compliance Reporting Cost Control Cost Variance Analysis