Job Description

POSITION: Group Treasurer

POSTING END DATE: 11th August 2023

LOCATION: Gaydon (UK) / Hybrid

SALARY: Competitive

Jaguar Land Rover is evolving into \xe2\x80\x9cJLR\xe2\x80\x9d, a \xe2\x80\x9cHouse of Brands\xe2\x80\x9d comprising of four distinct British brands - Range Rover, Jaguar, Defender and Discovery.

Our purpose is to \'Live the Exceptional with Soul\' by being the proud creators of modern luxury and being guided by a set of behaviours we call our Creators\' Code: Customer Love; Unity; Integrity; Growth; Impact.

WHAT TO EXPECT

Our Reimagine programme, announced in February 2021, will see us transition to being an electric-first business. The purity of electric is the next natural step. At the heart of Reimagine will be the electrification of both the Jaguar and Land Rover brands.

By the middle of the decade, Jaguar will have undergone a renaissance to emerge as a pure electric luxury brand with a dramatically beautiful new portfolio of emotionally engaging designs and pioneering next-generation technologies. In the next five years, Land Rover will welcome six pure electric variants as it continues to be the world leader of luxury SUVs through its three families of Range Rover, Discovery and Defender. The first all-electric variant will arrive in 2024.

You will lead and implement high quality finance solutions to support the business\'s objectives; balancing the deployment of fixed and variable marketing spend to maximise enterprise value being delivered through proactive finance business partnering at the highest level, coaching and challenging business leaders to ensure the right decisions are made.

THE ROLE

Key Responsibilities

• Oversee JLR\'s financing, investments and cash management, bank relations, foreign exchange and financial risk management, pension finance and insurance
• Oversee JLR investor relations, including quarterly results presentations and investor calls, investor days and managing rating agency relationships
• Manage daily cash balances and trading in the financial markets
• Creating solutions to new financial challenges by applying financial or treasury knowledge
• Build strong relationships with banks to support JLR banking needs
• Develop cash investment strategy and oversee c. \xc2\xa34 billion cash portfolio in deposits, money market funds, government bonds and tri-party repo
• Develop FX and commodity rolling hedging strategies for up to a 5-year horizon with an FX hedge portfolio
• Responsible for pension financial matters, including negotiation of triennial valuations, investment strategy consultation with Trustees, etc.
• Responsible for Corporate insurance, including General Liability, Property, D&O and other insurance classes with strong coverage and cost-effective pricing

Key Interactions

• Board Members CFO/CEO
• Global Regional Directors
• Finance Directors Community
• Central Functions
• External Financial Stakeholders

WHAT YOU\'LL NEED

Essential Knowledge, Skills and Experience

• Extensive relevant commercial/industry experience
• Excellent communication, mediation and influencing skills at all levels
• Ability to navigate data and translate implications for non-finance professionals
• Strategic thinker and decision maker
• Resilient individual able to respond and react to change and challenge
• Proven leadership and team development skills
• Drive for change, desire and appetite to challenge the status quo
• Customer focused demonstrating customer first behaviours
• Keeps up to date with industry trends and uses insight to inform decision making and influence others
• Self-driven learner with an appetite for continuous professional and personal development
• Ability to work at pace within a complex matrix structure and an agile workplace
• Recognised financial qualification or equivalent experience

Personal Profile

• Inspirational leader, demonstrated by a low-ego approach, with a positive and up-beat style with a track record of developing talent and inspiring others, driving the organisation to world-class performance
• Demonstrates our Creators\' Code behaviours of Customer Love, Unity, Integrity, Growth and Impact. Continually working hard to deliver a modern luxury experience to earn and keep our customers\' trust and loyalty
• Embracing differences, being empathetic, welcoming challenges together empowering each other to deliver
• Building trust by speaking openly and honestly, listening attentively, and treating others respectfully
• An individual who is able to ensure operational plans deliver Jaguar Land Rover\'s strategy and combine a short term, pragmatic focus with strategic vision
• An ability to work in an inclusive multi-culture and multi-partnership environment
• A resilient individual who has strong influencing and engagement skills, is comfortable challenging all stakeholders and can build credibility and trust through experience and personal style
• Unquestionable integrity and values driven - earns unwavering trust, meets commitments, and has courageous conversations
• Able to play an active role in leading the broader Finance function, on items such as Functional strategy and delivery
• Able to influence peers and senior leadership teams in other functions in order to ensure the right decisions are being made for the future success of the business
• High level of resilience in dealing with ambiguous or fast-paced, evolving situations
• Strong influencing skills and ability to build relationships easily - understands the intricacies of managing complex relationships across the global organisation. High level of emotional intelligence, with the ability to influence and persuade

#WEAREJLR

At Jaguar Land Rover, we are passionate about our people. They are at the heart of our business. We are committed to fostering a diverse, inclusive culture that is representative of our global customers and the society in which we live; a culture in which every one of our employees can bring their authentic self to work and reach their full potential.

You will find the opportunities to further your career with a world-class team, access to select two of our luxury premium vehicles to lease at an extremely favourable cost compared to traditional company car lease schemes, membership of a competitive pension plan, private medical cover (which includes travel insurance) and performance related bonus scheme. All this and more makes Jaguar Land Rover the perfect place to continue your journey.

This role may offer the opportunity for hybrid working where you can split your time between working from home and in the office. At Jaguar Land Rover, hybrid working is a voluntary, non-contractual arrangement providing employees with more choice and flexibility around how, when and where they work, if suitable for their role. Further details can be discussed with the Hiring Manager at interview stage.

#WEAREJLR

At JLR we are passionate about our people. They are at the heart of our business. We are committed to fostering a diverse, inclusive culture that is representative of our global customers and the society in which we live; a culture in which every one of our employees can bring their authentic self to work, and reach their full potential.

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WHAT WE OFFER

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