Manager - Treasury Transformation Projects & Research
Qatar Airways
Total years of experience :21 years, 9 Months
Financial Risk Management of 15 subsidiaries across MENA and Asia.
Worked on negotiating a €125MM euro financing through USD funding which was swapped using a cross currency basis swap to reflect a euro funding while reducing the total cost when compared to a direct euro funding.
Worked on cash management solutions for the entire Group and implementation of Citibank cash management systems.
Managing short term investments in fixed deposits and bonds.
Negotiating intercompany Shareholder Loans in coordination with in-house legal.
Analyzing business plans to identify funding gaps and cost benefit analysis of the funding from an interest rate and as well as foreign exchange perspective.
Preparation of Treasury Report on a monthly basis for the senior management.
Presenting the Annual Hedging strategy document recommending solutions for financial risks across the Group
Analyzing foreign exchange and interest rate risks across the Etisalat Group and recommending/executing hedging solutions.
Manage foreign exchange and interest rate risk on mergers and acquisitions as well as on long term and short term financing strategies.
Working on Group wide Financial Risk Management Policy.
Negotiating ISDA and hedging process letters in coordination with external/in house legal.
· Hedging currency and interest rate exposures using plain vanilla, exotic derivatives and structured products.
·Analyzing the risk profile of structured equity products and hedging the foreign exchange exposures on exits.
. Strategic short and medium term liquidity management. Development and enhancement of liquidity and cash reporting, identification and mitigation of financial risks - particularly funding and liquidity.
· Enhanced yield on idle funds through structured products, enabling sweep accounts and obtaining competitive rates on deposits.
·Extensive cash forecasting and judicious deployment of funds from multi currency credit facilities for investments.
· Providing Daily Cash and Treasury updates to the Senior Management highlighting the liquidity risk.
· Dealer/Superuser on the Oracle Treasury Module validating treasury deals and usage of Reuters Kondor Plus.
· Coordinated the implementation of Reuters Kondor plus at DIC.
·Tracking and monitoring of the organization’s cash worldwide and appropriately allocating cash for the portfolio/subsidiary companies.
· Analyzing and reporting global cash activity of subsidiaries to the Management.
· Coordinated with Group Treasury and PWC in terms of setting up Group wide Treasury policy.
· To act as the treasury representative with the banks and to actively manage the day to day relationships.
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.Employed option strategies on currencies, commodities, energy and metals in the US markets in the derivatives fund to limit the cumulative exposure.
. Interacted regularly with the senior management of the clientele updating them on cash flow positions and sourcing funds to match shortfalls.
· Due diligence on institutional and individual clientele.
· Double checking arithmetic on calculation of transaction fees, management fees and proportionate returns of individual investments in the fund.
· Prepared customized reports on cash flows and returns of individual clients.
· · Prepared financial returns and risk positions of the fund on a daily basis.
· Created an index for the fund which was charted with the MSCI Index to give investors an idea on the performance and risk of the fund.
· Prepared Research Reports and Correlations to be sent out to clients.
Analyzed and advised companies on currency and interest rate risk.
· Employed hedging strategies by using forwards and options.
· Evaluated portfolio performance on a six monthly basis.
· Wrote extensive currency market updates on a regular basis to be uploaded on the site.
· Conducted several training sessions for corporate houses; made presentations to impart financial product and risk management knowledge to the treasury executives.