Manager, Debt & Investment

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

Work Experience

Technical / Functional Competencies