Global Currency Specialist

Job Description:

This role will provide the S&F support to protect the business from financial risk arising from movements in the foreign exchange rates associated with the buying and selling of products around the world, and reporting the results to the business units.

What are we looking for?

• The job holder will require excellent analytical skills with sound financial understanding, strong attention to detail, a questioning approach to challenge outputs and good communication skills to explain complex concepts in a simple way.
• Good communication and interpersonal skills with an attitude high in customer service.
• Strong mathematical and analytical skills including the ability to interpret financial information.
• Advanced Microsoft Office skills including Excel, Word, Power Point.
• Demonstrated ability to understand computer databases
• Skilled with digital tools such as Alteryx, Tableau and Power BI
• Understanding of Financial and Treasury Risk Management systems such as SAP, FIS Quantum, Anaplan a plus.

What will be your key responsibilities?

• Responsible for managing exposures reported by over 170 sites and liaising with Front Office to ensure the correct trades are placed effectively. Track the exposures to provide full visibility of the trades being managed.
• Understand the foreign currency exposures within the various business segments and their business operating models.
• Lead the FX forecasting strategy globally using Anaplan.
• Lead exposure review meetings and communicate key insights to business stakeholders and other member of the currency team.
• Answer ad-hoc queries to enable full understanding at a unit level of currency results throughout the year. This involves explaining currency to associates across business units in a clear and understandable way.
• Daily controls reporting on currency center position, e.g. ensure internal and external position match and trades to close open trades have all been made.
• Daily reporting to extract and upload trade information as required by relevant derivative regulatory frameworks including EMIR and Dodd Frank.
• Daily confirmation of foreign currency trades with our counterparties and investigation and resolution of any queries on a timely manner.
• Increase efficiency and control by using digital technologies and automated models and databases where possible. (I.e. Alteryx, Tableau, PowerBI, PowerApps, etc.)
• Regularly review and maintain standard operating procedures for all operational processes and retain these documents in a central portal for reference.
• To support other associates in the team, including providing holiday and sickness cover.

What can you expect from Mars?

• Work with over 130,000 diverse and talented Associates, all guided by the Five Principles.
• Join a purpose driven company, where we're striving to build the world we want tomorrow, today.
• Best-in-class learning and development support from day one, including access to our in-house Mars University.
• An industry competitive salary and benefits package, including company bonus.

Mars is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. If you need assistance or an accommodation during the application process because of a disability, it is available upon request. The company is pleased to provide such assistance, and no applicant will be penalized as a result of such a request.