Mohammad Awais Gull, TREASURY MANAGER – FRONT OFFICE

Mohammad Awais Gull

TREASURY MANAGER – FRONT OFFICE

Astrazeneca

Location
Great Britain (UK) - Cambridge
Education
Master's degree, Finance and Investments
Experience
7 years, 3 Months

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Total years of experience :7 years, 3 Months

TREASURY MANAGER – FRONT OFFICE at Astrazeneca
  • United Kingdom
  • My current job since April 2022

 Monitoring and evaluating the Group’s FX exposures (+$30bn per annum), proposing relevant risk thresholds and hedging strategies
 Ownership of the balance sheet hedging program for all AZ group entities, aggregate FX exposures of +$2bn
 Evaluating acquisitions from a Treasury standpoint, including accessing and proposing of hedging execution strategies related to significant one-off transactions
 Collaborating on post-acquisition efforts, streamlining Treasury functions, optimizing cash management and alignment of financial process
 Leading the Group’s cash investment activities and proposing relevant products and execution strategies
 Supporting the Group Treasurer in assessing funding needs for short-term and long-term purposes. This also involves managing the issuance of US commercial paper, EUR and US bonds, and executing XCCY and IRS swaps as necessary
 Actively managing factoring, LC discounting, overdraft facilities and bank guarantees to optimize financial operations
 Supervising daily cash management operations with a primary focus on optimizing cash positioning, executing cash pooling strategies and managing payment transactions
 Maintaining accurate financial models and liaising with the Group’s credit rating agencies to cover questions and align numbers / metrics on a quarterly basis
 Leading preparation of the Quarterly CFO Report for Group Treasury, ensuring all content is received on time and accurate
 Principal contact for the production of the Group liquidity reporting pack and presenting to senior management on a monthly basis
 Providing advice and guidance as required to the wider Group Treasury team and Business Units, including the internal funding requirements of Group entities
 Managing relationship with Group’s consortium banks, principal contact for Front Office and Corporate Finance activities

SENIOR TREASURY ANALYST / TREASURY ANALYST at AstraZeneca
  • United Kingdom
  • September 2018 to April 2022

 Monitoring and management of the daily cash pooling arrangements across 30 currencies
 Monitoring and management of key FX exposures across the Group
 Executing daily foreign exchange transactions to manage the Group liquidity and hedge exposures ($10+ billion of FX spots and forwards per annum)
 Managing (and report on) daily liquidity through investment and redemption of a variety of short-term money market instruments (e.g. money market funds, repos, separately managed accounts) to maximise yield within security and liquidity constraints (year end 2019 group cash investments of c.$6 billion)
 Issuing short-term debt in the US Commercial Paper market
 Running and analyzing Front Office monthly Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
 Front Office point of contact for all funding needs from the Group

TREASURY FRONT OFFICE DEALER at Naspers
  • Netherlands - Amsterdam
  • August 2017 to July 2018

 Managing excess cash (group cash investments as at end of March 2018 of c.$10 billion) within the investment guidelines
 Managing Group’s cash pooling arrangements
 Timely funding to subsidiaries within the Naspers Group
 Executing FX transactions for Treasury entity and back-to-back deals for subsidiaries
 Monitoring financial markets and dealing Treasury related queries on cash management and currency risks
 Relationship banking, participating in meetings with consortium banks
 Supporting the Assistant Treasurer Front Office in various projects

PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT ANALYST at NN Investment Partners
  • Netherlands - The Hague
  • December 2016 to May 2017

 Calculating top-level performance of the funds and mandates on daily bases
 Assisting in measuring the performance allocation of the funds with regards to the asset mix, ratings and currency
 Ad-hoc reporting such as Risk Return Reports
 Designing and implementing data readiness controls to ensure accuracy of figures on a forward-looking basis

Education

Master's degree, Finance and Investments
  • at Erasmus University Rotterdam
  • August 2016

Specialties & Skills

Liquidity Management
Investments
Debt Markets
FX Hedging
Corporate Treasury
FRONT OFFICE
TREASURY
COMMERCIAL PAPER
MANAGEMENT
BALANCE SHEET
CASH MANAGEMENT
CORPORATE FINANCE
NUMBERS (SPREADSHEET)

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Languages

Urdu
Native Speaker
Dutch
Intermediate
English
Expert

Training and Certifications

Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) (Certificate)
Date Attended:
January 2021