Location : London

Reports to : Head of Treasury Operations

Contract : date TBC

Context: Within Chanel, Treasury is an integrated department actively contributing to the Group’ business strategy, operations, and growth by optimizing the usage of available liquidities, providing funding solutions, managing financial risks appropriately.

Chanel Treasury is in an ambitious Transformation Journey from an organizational and technology perspective.

At CHANEL, our values are grounded in creating conditions for people to perform at their best and feel fulfilled and confident in their work.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Under the responsibility of the Head of Treasury Operations, you will:

• Coordinate daily Group excess liquidity investment’s activity following daily global cash reconciliation and positioning. This includes investments’ decision, execution, tracking in our Treasury Management System (TMS) and their related payments’ processing.
• Ensure compliance with the Group Cash Investment Policy, including daily tracking of investments’ limits usage.
• Constantly looking for new opportunities, contribute to the diversification of our investment portfolios by introducing innovative solutions that align with our financial performance ambitions and our commitment to ESG principles, in line with CHANEL's sustainability goals.
• Acting as business support partner, coordinate the issuance of Parental and Bank guarantees whenever needed, and track these guarantees in our TMS.
• Lead investment account opening, management, and closing processes, including central KYC handling, and regular physical signors’ updates.
• Produce seamless and meaningful reporting on various Treasury activities, i.e. Cash Position, Investments, Counterparty Risk & Wallet sharing.
• Provide supporting documentation and data to the Corporate Accounting Team, External and Internal auditors for accounts under Global Treasury responsibility.
• Oversee punctually the monthly intercompany netting cycle.
• Ensure data integrity within the Group's Treasury Management System (TMS) and the positioning of our system as the global single source of truth for Treasury activities.
• Drive process efficiency and continuous enhancement through automation and the implementation of Business Intelligence tools.
• Ensure the compliance to our Global Treasury Policies, and amongst others the Investment Policy.

WHAT YOU WILL BRING

• Proven experience in finance roles with an international dimension.
• Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to develop coherent business solutions.
• Capacity to navigate and excel in an international and complex environment.
• Exceptional collaboration and communication skills.
• Demonstrated critical thinking abilities.

TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS

• Technical expertise in cash management services and solutions. Experience with ION tools considered as a plus.
• A minimum of 5 years of treasury operations experience in an international corporation.
• Affinity for technology and a strong focus on automation. Proven experience with the use of Power Query, and Power BI considered as a must.
• Fluent in English (both speaking and writing).

PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES

• Curiosity and a proactive approach to leadership.
• Ability to forge strong partnerships across functions.
• Strong customer service skills, effectively managing internal relationships while maintaining service level agreements.
• Demonstrated integrity and ethics in all activities.
• Respected and trusted professional within the organization.