Treasury Director, Foreign Risk Management

Imagine how your ideas and expertise can change a patient’s life. Patients are at the heart of what we do at Edwards Lifesciences. Our Finance teams work hard to optimize our current and long-term success and enable our ongoing strategy of innovation, leadership, and focus. As part of the team, whether providing analysis, forecasting, or reporting financial information, your application of accurate financial business practices will play a fundamental role in how we impact the quality of life for patients all over the world.

The Treasury Director will manage the FX risk management program and other capital market activities

• Manage, execute, and enhance FX programs to optimize hedging and improve efficiency of existing strategies to ensure alignment with corporate strategy and accounting standards; including planning, gathering exposures, validating data, executing trades, risk monitoring, and reporting

• Create scalable business processes to identify and improve currency exposures forecasts and actuals.

• Manage intercompany funding process and initiatives.

• Implement and continuously improve treasury systems to automate workflows, strengthen controls, and generate meaningful insights.

• Support the implementation of banking structures

• Collect, clean, validate, and analyze large and complex data sets from multiple sources; apply analytical techniques to identify trends, patterns, and opportunities

• Develop and maintain models and dashboards to derive insights, monitor risks, and results/KPIs

• Manage compliance deliverables from internal/external auditors to ensure adherence to external regulatory requirements (Dodd Frank, EMIR, MIFID, GAAP)

• Provide thought leadership on the share repurchase program model and strategy

• Regularly present program results and advancements to the Finance Risk Committee.

• Thoughtfully build in developmental opportunities for junior team members to grow and promote, with a focus on measuring performance.

• Build strong working relationships with internal and external partners across Finance, Accounting, Tax, Legal and Audit, banking partners, and vendors.

• Support other areas in Treasury as needed, including cash management, capital structure, liquidity, investments, capital markets, intercompany funding, share repurchase.

• Various special projects and ad hoc analyses as assigned

• Bachelor's Degree in in related field

• A minimum of twelve years of related experience (OR ten with a Masters)

• CFA and/or MBA

• A minimum of eight years in Treasury roles

• Relevant experience in a multinational organization public company with at least $2B in assets across at least 10 currencies

• Experience in emerging markets

• Relevant experience managing foreign exchange and interest rate risk through derivative transactions. Has directed the foreign exchange exposure management through cash flow, balance sheet, and net investment hedging programs.

• Strong knowledge of accounting implications of derivative transactions.

• Experience setting up FX accounting and settlement systems with connections across TMS and other systems is a plus.

• Comfortable building and updating models through advanced usage of Power
  
  BI, Alteryx, Excel, Kyriba, FxAll, One Stream

• Adept at risk analysis and management; studying and understanding cash flow models and the proper documentation; and reporting of all financial information.

• Has managed and/or enhanced internal controls and policies, which effectively protected company assets.

• Bias for action. Innately curious and extremely detail oriented.

• Have a keen business understanding to identify innovative solutions, establish automated treasury processes/reporting and build robust financial models.

• Excellent collaboration, oral and written communication skills, storytelling, and data visualization skills, along with the ability to negotiate with a variety of internal and external partners

• Foster and demonstrate leadership by serving others, building trust, and exceeding expectations in an entrepreneurial and forward-thinking culture

• Ability to multi-task and work independently

• Ability to manage multiple priorities, adapt to change,…