General Manager

Role Purpose

Lead the organization’s FX, commodity, and funding-cost optimization agenda by developing effective hedging strategies, managing financial and commodity exposures, and optimizing trade and working-capital financing. Partner with Procurement, Finance, Treasury, Business teams, and banking institutions to reduce procurement and financing costs, manage market risks, improve liquidity efficiency, and support profitable business growth.

Key Responsibilities

• Commodity Hedging: Develop and execute commodity hedging strategies, aligning physical requirements, purchase schedules and pricing with market exposures. Monitor LME prices and trends, manage commodity price risk, and take accountability for the Hedging function’s P&L.
• FX Hedging & Currency Risk Management: Develop and execute FX hedging strategies for foreign currency exposures arising from imports, purchases and supplier contracts. Manage forwards, options and approved instruments while optimizing hedge timing, quantum and cost. Monitor currency movements and negotiate competitive FX pricing with banks.
• Foreign Funding & Financing Cost Optimization: Optimize foreign currency funding through ECB, Buyer’s Credit, Trade Finance and other permissible structures. Evaluate all-in funding costs, optimize funding mix, tenure and hedging, and negotiate competitive terms. Manage Channel Finance and Vendor/Supplier Finance programs.
• Procurement & Total Cost Optimization: Drive procurement and financing cost optimization through market intelligence, supplier negotiations, payment terms, FX and hedging strategies.
• MIS, Analytics & Management Reporting: Develop MIS and dashboards covering exposures, hedge positions, MTM, LME prices, funding costs, utilization and savings. Provide forecasts, variance analysis and actionable insights while ensuring accurate transaction settlement and documentation.
• Risk Management & Governance: Ensure compliance with approved policies, regulatory requirements and internal controls. Monitor counterparty exposure and coordinate with Finance, Accounting and Audit on reporting, hedge accounting and RBI/SEBI requirements.

Indicative Experience and Exposure

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Commerce, Economics or related discipline.
• MBA/CA/CFA/Treasury or relevant financial-market qualification preferred.
• 15 years of relevant experience in Treasury, FX Hedging, Commodity Hedging, Trade Finance, Foreign Funding or Financial Risk Management.
• Strong experience working with Procurement and banking partners.
• Experience in manufacturing, metals, commodities, trading, import/export or foreign-currency-intensive businesses preferred.