Quaker Houghton

VP, Corporate Treasurer

Quaker Houghton

full-time

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Location Type: Office

Location: Conshohocken • Pennsylvania • United States

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Job Level

Lead

Tech Stack

ERP

About the role

  • Develop and implement a comprehensive capital structure strategy, including oversight of corporate lenders, implementation of debt financing agreements, interest rate management, and debt compliance
  • Recommend financing strategies and evaluate opportunities to reduce Company risk exposure and enhance financial benefits
  • Oversight of treasury management systems and transaction processing, including systems implementation, bank account reporting, payments and disbursements, corporate purchasing card program, and comprehensive cash management efforts and cash flow forecasting
  • Maintains strong relationships with banking partners
  • Oversees the global banking structure, settlement of cash flows, and related controls and ensures compliance with reporting requirements
  • Design and execute transactional FX exposure policy and procedure
  • Monitor FX risk and identify opportunities to reduce risk
  • Partners with the Controllership team in the preparation of required quarterly reporting to lenders
  • Develops and implements strategic cashflow initiatives, along with VP Tax and Global Controller, in design and execution of tax, repatriation or entity recapitalization actions
  • Assist the CFO in leading other capital allocation strategies, including M&A related activities, shareholder dividends, share buybacks and other related items
  • Set investment, hedging, and other treasury related policies and procedures to mitigate global treasury risks in line with the Companys strategy
  • Evaluates opportunities and advises Companys Pension and 401K Committee on its investments and asset allocations to align with Company strategy
  • Leads Risk and Insurance process including: Lead global insurance and risk transfer strategy, overseeing renewal processes across all lines of coverage, directing exposure data compilation, and strengthening relationships with brokers and insurers to optimize program structure, cost, and performance
  • Oversee risk management due diligence for acquisitions, evaluating target company insurance programs, identifying gaps and exposures, presenting executive-level analyses, and leading post-close integration of acquired entities into the Quaker Houghton insurance portfolio
  • Provide oversight of claims management and financial governance, ensuring timely notice to insurers/captive, partnering with Legal and Operations on reserve and settlement strategies, and managing global premium allocation, budgeting, and invoice compliance
  • Serve as a strategic advisor to Legal and business leaders, interpreting and negotiating insurance and risk terms in contracts and shaping enterprise policies to minimize organizational exposure and strengthen risk resilience

Requirements

  • Minimum of a Bachelors degree (BS) in Finance or related degree
  • Advanced degree and/or Certified Treasury Professional preferred
  • 15+ years progressive professional experience, with at least 7 to 10 years experience in global treasury functions
  • 5+ years of people management experience required
  • Experience managing cash across multiple countries and legal entities
  • Experience with mitigating FX exposure via hedges, terms or other mechanisms
  • Experience and familiarity working with lenders and negotiating debt agreements
  • Strong understanding of bank and lender markets
  • Desire to partner with CEO, CFO, and external institutions to explore optimal long-term capital structure for growing business
  • Knowledge of chemicals, steel and metalworking industry and automotive industry preferred
  • Global or multi-national business experience strongly preferred
  • Demonstrated ability to articulate analyses from the interpretation of financial reports and legal documents
  • Strong executive presence and ability to clearly communicate compelling messages to senior executives and finance partners
  • Experience presenting complex materials in a succinct manner to senior executives to drive effective decision making
  • Superior analytical and problem-solving skills, with demonstrated intellectual and analytical rigor as well as experience resolving complex business problems with well-structured analytics
  • Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions
  • Ability to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables
  • Team oriented, collaborative, diplomatic, and flexible, with demonstrated ability to articulate and drive a team towards designed outcomes
  • Demonstrated ability to be decisive and action-oriented regarding decisions affecting the team and committed to developing a team, including key talent, and build a strong succession pipeline for the future
  • Must be able to lead across and through the matrix organization to ensure effective and efficient decision making
  • Demonstrated success in engaging leadership in effective decision making including strong project management skills and a demonstrated ability to lead complex cross-functional initiatives across a breadth of stakeholders
  • Word processing, Spreadsheets, Treasury workstations/software, E-mail, and various ERP/Database
Benefits
  • Hybrid working environment
  • Competitive pay programs with excellent career growth trajectory
  • Paid time off for volunteerism
  • Opportunity to participate in comprehensive benefit options including Medical, Dental, Vision, Parental Leave, Holiday Pay, Paid Time Off, Tuition Reimbursement, and Savings Plan
  • Dress for your day; how you dress is determined by what your day may bring
  • Work for a global leader in the industrial process fluids industry

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard skills
capital structure strategydebt financing agreementsinterest rate managementcash flow forecastingFX risk managementrisk management due diligencefinancial governanceanalytical skillsproblem-solving skillsproject management
Soft skills
executive presencecommunication skillsteam orientedcollaborativedecisiveaction-orientedflexiblediplomaticability to articulateleadership
Certifications
Certified Treasury Professional