Treasury Risk Manager at The South African Breweries (SAB)

• The key purpose of this role is to ensure the accuracy and integrity of risk reporting, with a focus on hedging activities, review of financial results & accounting treatment, and validation of foreign exchange exposures within the Treasury Management System (IT2). Acting as the owner of risk management documentation, the manager maintains and updates all records while overseeing daily risk operations to drive operational excellence, accurate reporting, and compliance with internal policies and external regulations. This role is accountable for applying risk management frameworks, identifying opportunities in Forex and hedging strategies, and championing continuous process improvements that strengthen reporting quality, governance, and overall risk management capabilities.

Key Roles & Responsibilities: 

• Monitoring financial markets (FX, commodity and interest rates) to support the formulation and implementation of strategies that ensure best execution of hedging activities, so that the core requirements of treasury policies are delivered.
• Providing Global Group Treasury and the ABInBev Finance community with in-depth analysis and commentary on the Foreign Exchange (FX) and interest rate markets and Zone insurance; providing relevant and timely reporting on developments in currency markets and interest rates. Participation in weekly trading strategy sessions.
• Understand local regulations across each market governing the management of financial risk.
• Formulation of hedging strategies (within the confines of the Group Treasury Risk Policy); Event-driven financial & analytical modelling & analysis.
• Hedge execution on behalf of Countries; undertaking spot and forward foreign exchange (FX) dealing to hedge actual or projected currency exposures in accordance with Group treasury policies and procedures; MTM reviews and validation of deals captured in IT2.
• Ensure compliance with relevant regulatory frameworks, policies, procedures, Service Level Agreements and other policies.
• Chair regular Country conference calls to plan treasury execution to ensure FX policy compliance is achieved and review of exposure forecast accuracy (Commodity & FX).
• Economic forecasting and trend analysis (Macroeconomic updates, insights and reports) including Bank engagement and relationship management.
• ISDA (International Swaps & Derivatives Association) negotiation and management with financial partners.

Key Attributes and Competencies: 

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with an ability to communicate complex issues in a simple and concise manner.
• Excellent collaboration skills and ability to work in a matrix environment
• Ability to communicate with all levels within the organization as required, particularly with the Finance functions within the countries and at Zone
• Planning / process and deadline management without compromise
• Leadership & interpersonal skills.

Minimum Requirements:

• Relevant degree
• Appropriate knowledge of finance and treasury operations
• Good analytical and insight-generation skills
• 2-3 years of relevant experience in Risk management