Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
Interest rate risk management / liquidity management / capital markets / real estate / transaction management / financial reporting / credit modelling / treasury systems / foreign exchange / structured products / interest rate swaps / interest rate derivatives / risk modelling / technical analysis / risk perception.
Responsible for cash management, FX & IR risk management, commodity hedging, cash planning and forecasting, process automation, banking relationships, commercial paper program, mmf investment infrastructure, short-term intracompany financing, share buy-back program, Ibor transition, counterparty limits, EMIR reporting, Guarantees and LoCs, treasury policies and reporting.
Responsible for developing and executing Bayer’s pre-hedging strategy leading up to the Monsanto acquisition and the issuance of EUR and USD bonds. Currently forecasting interest expense and interest cash flows for the group having established a new policy for interest rate risk management using an efficient frontier model. The new policy has been signed off by the CFO and the first hedges executed. Further tasks include preparing the company for benchmark reform post-Libor.
As part of the roll-out of the Corporate Real Estate Management (CREM) strategy at Bayer, Bayer Real Estate GmbH (BRE) has the responsibility to oversee Bayer's global real estate portfolio and transactions. My main focus in helping to develop the CREM concept was to build reporting and analytical tools in Excel, SharePoint and on an Oracle Business Intelligence platform to track the global real estate portfolio and transactions. After 8 months in a management support role with the head of BRE, in July 2016 I joined the transaction management team where I had regional responsibility for real estate projects in Latin America, Middle East and Africa.
Compiled a pipeline of eligible companies meeting the criteria to list on the Social Stock Exchange. Verified and assessed their social mission, and then identified the key stakeholders and 3rd party financial analysts for approach and negotiation. Starting with a list of 50 eligible companies I built a database of over 300 companies in 5 months.
• Assessing hedge funds strategies, monitoring fund Net Asset Values and underlying assets. • Negotiating money markets and financing agreements with International and Middle Eastern banks. • Optimisation of Prime brokerage accounts • Weekly bond valuations including CMBS, CDO, CLO, ABS on a multi billion dollar bond portfolio • Preparing presentations for internal and external stakeholders • Assessing fixed income investment opportunities including CDS hedging strategies • Developing appraisal and valuation methodologies for structured products • Macro and micro market research • Working with external accountants to produce Company financial statements • Assisting the in house risk assessment team to produce VAR reports • Acting as cover to the senior Foreign Exchange trader • Executing cash movements between accounts • Advised liquidators with the sale of assets • Contingency planning and maintenance of an ECB affiliated bank in Malta
Working with the IT department documenting and establishing procedures for IT operations Designing a reporting system that enabled the collection of data from plant managers across Europe. Using macros to automatically trace where new information was stored.