Senior Assistant Treasurer- Temporary
Netafim
Accounting & Finance
Magal, Israel
Description
Key Responsibilities
Cash flow management
- Ownership of end-to-end cash forecasting process, including alignment with business plans, budgets, and strategic initiatives.
- Drive forecast accuracy improvements and root-cause analysis of variances in collaboration with FP&A and local finance teams.
- Active involvement in working capital optimization initiatives (AR, AP, inventory) together with Operations and Procurement.
- Management and oversight of the Group’s global cash flows at both headquarters and country levels.
- Analytical/variance review of cash flow actual results vs forecasts and plans
- Preparation and monitoring of short, medium, and long-term cash flow forecasts.
- Manage the group’s direct and indirect cash flow.
Global Cash Management & Intercompany
- Define and maintain global cash management policies and procedures.
· act as a central point of escalation for cash-related issues in subsidiaries.
· Lead training and guidance for local finance teams on treasury standards and best practices.
- Optimization of the group’s cash management, centralized in Israel.
- Define cash behavior and working capital needs in each country and enforce cash surplus transfers policy.
- Explore and develop cash management practices such as cash pooling.
Global debt management
· Support the Treasurer in capital structure analysis and liquidity planning, including scenario and stress testing.
· Analyze cost of debt, refinancing risks, and covenant headroom, and present insights to senior management.
- Analysis of the debt structure and its alignment with the business needs, liquidity aspects and finance stability.
- Identify risks and opportunities in the debt structure, duration, debt mix between short term and long term and provide recommendations.
- Manage day to day debt aspects such as amortization and interest schedule, covenants, compliance with loan agreements and correspondences with the banks.
- Full involvement and Support in debt raising, renewals and discussions with banks and other financing institutions by collecting data, supporting questions and analysis required by the lenders.
· Support treasury aspects of M&A, dividends, and other corporate actions.
Hedging
· Support hedging strategy execution, monitoring hedge effectiveness and compliance with treasury policy.
· Coordinate with accounting on hedge documentation and accounting treatment (IFRS).
Reports and reporting packages
· Prepare board-level and executive treasury materials, with clear messaging and business insights
· Ownership of all treasury reports, presentations, and periodic deck to be maintained regularly.
· Prepare and manage reports and reporting packages to management, including monthly reporting, quarterly and annual reports, AOP, and treasury special presentations.
· Ad-Hoc analysis and presentations
Requirements
Qualifications
- BA degree in Finance, Economics, or Accounting- Must, MBA in the same fields- Advantage
- Proven experience of at least 5 years in treasury departments in global and multi- currency corporates - Mandatory
- Proven experience in cash flow and debt management- Mandatory
- Hands-on experience with SAP (or similar ERP) and treasury systems (JDOX)- Mandatory
- Excel – advanced (pivot, complex formulas, modeling)
- Fluency in English
Skills & Personal Attributes
- Strong analytical, data-oriented, and systems mindset
- Solid understanding of cash and cash flow management and debt management in companies with extensive debt and complicated cash flow aspects.
- Strong presentation skills.
- High level of commitment, with the ability to manage workload peaks and ad-hoc assignments
- Ability to work across regions without direct authority
- Strong team player with effective collaboration and communication skills
- High integrity and professional judgment.