Kerja Sepenuh Masa, Regional Treasury Manager Asia di Perfetti Van Melle - Maukerja

Company Description

Perfetti Van Melle is a privately owned global confectionery company producing and distributing candies and chewing gums in more than 150 countries. With over 17,000 employees and 37 companies worldwide, the Group has a strong presence across Asia Pacific, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Americas. Formed in 2001 through the merger of Perfetti Spa and Van Melle N.V., and strengthened by the 2006 acquisition of Chupa Chups S.A., the company combines long-standing heritage with continued growth. Its global brands, including Mentos, Chupa Chups, and Alpenliebe, as well as popular regional brands, reflect a passion for innovation, quality, and consumer delight. Team members join a business that values creativity, diverse markets, and continuous exploration of new ideas.

Role Description

The Regional Treasury Manager Asia acts as the in-house banking expert for the Asia region, leading financial risk management, intercompany funding, payments, and cash management. The role maintains and shares local treasury expertise across Asian markets, including payment methods, bank connectivity, and central bank and regulatory requirements. It supports knowledge transfer, trains users, and resolves complex payment, cash management, and financial risk matters that local teams may be unable or unauthorized to handle. The role continuously reviews banking processes, monitors local market developments, and shares best practices, tools, and expertise across the region. It also oversees day-to-day bank connectivity operations with local teams.

Working closely with the Group Treasury Manager, the Regional Treasury Manager Asia translates group treasury strategy into regional actions, including risk management, funding, and liquidity planning. The role designs efficient funding plans for subsidiaries, ensures appropriate debt and equity structures, and implements group capital and funding plans in collaboration with local Finance Directors and treasury teams. The role also provides global treasury support when needed, particularly for urgent matters or during periods of limited staff availability, while the Group Treasury Manager and Group Cash Manager provide reciprocal support to Asia.

He/She:

• Acts as the center of excellence for all cash and payment activities in the region. Brings the highest standard to the work floor in all countries in Asia. Enables the teams in cash and payments to operate efficiently and effectively and get the hands dirty together with the teams in complicated activities.
• Manages the currency risk visibility, control and mitigation: Partner of the finance directors of the operating companies in Asia, working together on identifying and monitoring the currency risk exposures. Drives local risk mitigation by basic business measures (natural hedging) towards the finance directors and managing directors as well as supporting departments such as global procurement. Uses policies and periodical independent advice to steer the operating companies and global supporting departments. Runs the regional part of global centralization and netting of currency risk and performs either directly or indirectly through the operating companies the risk mitigation with the financial industry using appropriate financial contracts and derivatives.
• Performs the maintenance of all relevant tools and systems in the reach of the risk management role: Bank onboarding, account setup, user roles setup/change/delete, user training and support of users in the Asia Operating companies. Automation and integration with the ERP system, and other tools and systems, both in internal treasury management systems as well as bank proprietary and multi-bank trading tools. Keeps knowledge in house and brings new entrants in the business up to speed quickly.
• Manages the interest rate risk in Asia. Works independently as well as together with the finance directors to ensure full visibility on regional and decentral activities that affect or drive the interest rate risk. Centralizes the interest rate risk to the group and brings mitigating solutions, both decentral and central as and where desired by the group. Works on global level with the financial industry for any interest risk on funding and investments.
• Works as enabler and driver for commodity risk mitigating programs for the Asian region with the global and regional operations function towards the financial industry. Initiating the segregation between price risk mitigation with the global supply chain partners and the part only available through the financial industry. Independently advising global procurement on the procedural and visibility aspect. After consultation with global supply chain function and Group Treasury team in NL arranges risk mitigating instruments in Asia.
• Controls compliance activities towards the financial industry in the area of risk management: Anti-Money Laundering & Terrorism compliance controls and statements, ISDA agreements, complete the Know Your Customer queries as well as questions / concerns from financial institutions used for funding and risk monitoring and liaise with operating companies’ finance directors for information.
• Ensures sufficient credit facilities in place with the financial institutions to enable risk mitigating trading, both on-shore and off-shore basis.
• Arranges and maintains all intercompany loans as and where needed. Independent advice towards finance directors and group finance. Supports finance directors on ensuing local tax implications are understood and duly evaluated. Supports maintenance of the Treasury Management System for the intercompany funding part, working on the integration and automation between the Treasury Management System and the ERP system.
• Build and maintains awareness and support of how the risk management function affects and integrates with the cash management function in Asia and beyond. Supports the back-office function to enable and expand the controls for Asia treasury financial operations. Supporting treasury result calculation and reporting eventually working together towards a global treasury P&L.
• Executes the liquidity management for the region through group and subsidiary credit facilities, cash investments, and trade financing instruments.
• Managing equipment leasing efforts in the region.
• Round the clock-function: Business-critical Treasury issues that arise at the end of US time zone, follow though, resolve and eventually pass on to the Treasury team in Europe.
• Acts as key user in the region for various pure treasury and near-treasury tools in SAP, specific reference to Autobank and Autoavis for the purpose of increasing bank statement matching for the Shared Service Center.
• Extension of the global insurance role, working together with and supporting the Group Insurance Manager in the execution, claims handling, reporting and renewal activities for regional insurances. 

Qualifications

• Strong expertise in cash management, liquidity planning, and working capital optimization, with experience managing regional or multi-country treasury operations.
• Proficiency in foreign exchange risk management, hedging strategies, and understanding of financial markets relevant to Asia.
• Experience with treasury management systems, banking platforms, and advanced Excel or financial modeling tools.
• Solid knowledge of corporate finance principles, internal controls, and compliance with local regulatory and banking requirements.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to interpret complex financial data and make sound recommendations.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively across cultures and functions.
• Demonstrated ability to work independently, manage multiple priorities, and drive process improvements in a fast-paced environment.
• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field; professional certifications (e.g., ACT, CFA, CPA) are an advantage.
• Relevant regional experience in Asia and prior exposure to FMCG or multinational environments is highly beneficial.