Assistant Vice President Finance

Job Purpose:

The Assistant Vice President (AVP), Treasury & Finance Operations, serves as the operational and governance anchor supporting the Vice President in ensuring effective liquidity management, corporate funding and financial control across LTAT's Treasury and Finance Operations. This role ensures robust oversight of cash flow, FX risk management, and banking relationships while driving continuous process improvement, digitalisation and policy compliance in alignment with LTAT's Liquidity Management Framework (LMF), Treasury Policy and FX Hedging Policy.

This position provides strong cross-functional leadership across Treasury and Finance Operations to ensure liquidity resilience, financial integrity and operational excellence in support of LTAT's short-term and long-term financial objectives.

Key Accountabilities
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1. Liquidity & Cash Management

2. Oversee daily cash positions, short-term investments, and funding allocations within approved Treasury parameters.

3. Ensure sufficient liquidity for operational and investment commitments in compliance with the LMF.
4. Approve placements, withdrawals, and internal fund transfers within delegated authority limits.
5. Review and endorse rolling 12-month liquidity forecasts, highlighting key funding risks and coverage ratios (LCR, NSFR).

6. Continuously improve forecasting accuracy and liquidity reporting consistency.

7. FX Management & Hedging Corporate Treasury & Funding Management

8. Support corporate funding strategy through management of facilities, drawdowns, and repayment schedules.

9. Oversee debt management processes, ensuring timely settlement, covenant compliance and reporting to internal committees and lenders.
10. Evaluate funding proposals and short-term borrowing arrangements to optimise LTAT's capital structure.
11. Coordinate with Corporate Finance and Investment teams on investment funding, redemption scheduling and cash deployment.

12. Maintain documentation and ensure alignment with the approved Treasury Operating Procedures and Liquidity Management Framework.

13. FX Management & Hedging Execution

14. Monitor FX exposures across international investments and initiate hedge transactions under VP oversight.

15. Ensure adherence to the FX Hedging Policy, BNM FEP guidelines, and internal risk limits.
16. Review daily FX blotter, exposure reports, and hedge maturity schedules to ensure positions remain within risk appetite.

17. Analyse hedge effectiveness, cost impact, and currency trends to support management decision-making.

18. Corporate Banking & Relationship Management

19. Manage relationships with financial institutions to secure competitive pricing, service quality and reliability.

20. Negotiate terms for credit lines, cash management services, and investment placements.
21. Monitor utilisation of banking facilities and ensure compliance with documentation, covenants and reporting obligations.

22. Serve as liaison between LTAT and external bankers to support operational, investment and compliance needs.

23. Governance, Policy & Control

24. Enforce compliance with Treasury Policy, LMF, and Finance internal control procedures.

25. Review and strengthen Treasury SOPs, Finance Approval Matrix (FAM), and system access control (JDE, LCMS, SVC, eBanking).
26. Coordinate with Risk, Audit and Compliance teams to ensure governance alignment and timely audit resolution.
27. Lead periodic control testing, identify gaps, and implement corrective actions to mitigate operational risks.
28. Oversee business continuity planning and testing for Treasury and Finance Operations to ensure resilience, data integrity and uninterrupted operations during contingencies.
29. Support LTAT's risk management initiatives by identifying, assessing and mitigating financial and operational risks within Treasury and Finance Operations.

30. Ensure financial records and reporting processes within Finance Operations comply with MFRS, audit requirements and LTAT's internal governance framework.

31. Finance Operations & Systems Enhancement

32. Supervise end-to-end Treasury and Finance Operations activities, ensuring accuracy, timeliness, and compliance with internal controls and policies.

33. Oversee payment operations (PO and non-PO) including vendor, staff and member-related payments, ensuring accuracy, timeliness, compliance and documentation completeness in accordance with internal policies and service-level targets.
34. Drive process automation and digitalisation initiatives across JDE-SVC-LCMS-eBanking to enhance control, visibility and efficiency.
35. Ensure reconciliation accuracy, system integrity, and timely resolution of operational issues in collaboration with ITMD and relevant units/departments.
36. Oversee general ledger (GL) integrity by ensuring accurate and timely postings, account reconciliations and financial close activities.
37. Maintain comprehensive audit trails and supporting documentation for governance and compliance purposes.

38. Identify opportunities to streamline Finance Operations processes, enhance turnaround time, and strengthen control mechanisms in line with LTAT's governance framework.

39. Financial Analysis & Reporting

40. Prepare monthly liquidity dashboards, FX exposure reports, and variance analyses for management and Board Committees.

41. Provide analytics on cash flow optimisation, yield improvement and funding efficiency.

42. Develop and maintain Treasury performance KPIs and data visualisation dashboards.

43. Strategic & Transformation Support

44. Support the Vice President in implementing strategic treasury initiatives, policy enhancements and governance frameworks.

45. Contribute to policy reviews, system enhancements and strategic projects such as Treasury centralisation and process re-engineering.

46. Drive capability-building and cross-functional collaboration to improve Treasury governance and data driven decision-making.

47. People Leadership & Development

48. Supervise Senior Associates, Executives, and Clerical staff under Treasury & Finance Operations.

49. Provide coaching and performance feedback to enhance analytical, technical, and operational skills.

50. Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration and operational excellence.

51. To undertake any additional assignment as instructed by supervisor and LTAT.

Requirements:

1. Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics or related discipline.
2. Master's or professional certification (CTP, CFA, ACCA, ICAEW) is preferred.
3. Minimum 10-12 years of relevant experience in Treasury, Corporate Finance, or Banking with at least 3 years in a supervisory or managerial capacity.
4. Demonstrated expertise in liquidity management, FX hedging, treasury systems and project management.
5. Experience in managing teams, inter-department coordination, and dealing with financial institutions.
6. Strong understanding of Treasury, liquidity management, financial instruments and regulatory compliance.