Treasury Manager

Vantage is a fast-growing, leading global supplier of naturally derived specialty ingredients and formulations that cater to the evolving needs of consumer and industrial markets.

Through our chemistries, our customer focus and our vertically integrated farming, manufacturing, and formulation facilities around the world, we are Enabling Tomorrow's Solutions Today.

With more than 1,000 employees, $1+ billion in sales and a footprint in 13 countries around the world, Vantage is driven by an intense focus on our customers, providing a broad portfolio of customized solutions, formulations and ingredients that are tailored to meet their specific needs.

Under the leadership of Steve Doktycz, a 27-year chemical industry and strategic development veteran, its tenured leadership team represents decades of industry experience coupled with entrepreneurial spirit and a passion for natural chemistries.

Vantage is headquartered in the United States (Deerfield, IL, a Chicago suburb).

Since its inception in 2008, Vantage's continued growth has been realized through a combination of focused commercial efforts, significant capital investment into our manufacturing assets, strategic entry into geographic markets and niche acquisitions to develop our leading portfolio of natural-based specialty ingredients.

Vantage is backed by H.I.G., a leading global alternative investment firm with $43 billion of equity capital under management with a focus on the small and midcap segments of the market, with a minority investment by The Jordan Company.

Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization:
The Vantage treasury group is critical to managing the organizations overall liquidity and risk management.

This role requires the ability and desire to understand complex interaction of several computing processes within different ERPs and use this information along with overall accounting and financial experience to help manage cash and produce cash forecasting for tactical decision making and senior management strategic planning.

The incumbent is also integral to the management of corporate working capital, building models and reporting, and working with the functions and business to understand and manage key metrics.

Key Responsibilities and General Accountabilities:

Daily:

• Daily US Cash reporting and management for payables and intercompany
• Daily banking operations as necessary.

Weekly:

• Manage factoring program (settlements, documentation, and sampling).
• Compile and global and US 13week cash flow forecast.
• Produce variance analysis of weekly, produce management reporting.

Monthly/Quarterly:

• Current year cash projections/forecasts for board meeting, other users.
• Assist in coordinating tax and dividend payments.
• Own EBITDA to Cash bridge/reporting.
• Coordinate debt activity (invoices, borrowings, swaps, etc.).
• Debt covenant calculations.
• Working capital analysis, including updating and building models.

Ad Hoc Projects as assigned:

• Financial risk (FX and commodities) mapping and hedging opportunities.
• Manage global bank account roster and signatories.
• Banking fee analysis.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Strong finance acumen gained from experience, with previous handson experience building and modeling cash, both ground up from individual business inputs, and top down from financial statements.
• Ability to partner with multiple stakeholders on a recurring basis to obtain information and review analysis.
• Ability and fluency in making and supporting business cases to senior management.
• Proactively communicate regarding future risks with a solutionsbased orientation.

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Accounting, or related field. MBA desired but not required.
• 8 to 10 years relevant work experience in the accounting/treasury.
• Broad and deep theoretical understanding of job function.

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