Treasury Funding Director

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The Dow Chemical Company Finance organization has an opening for Treasury Funding Director within the Treasury’s Global Funding Team, located at the company’s world headquarters in Midland, Michigan. This purpose of this position is to develop and execute the company’s funding strategy to ensure the company’s financing and liquidity requirements are achieved.  The successful candidate will be a key member of the Global Funding Team reporting to the Global Funding Director.  The Capital Markets/Funding team manages all of the company’s global funding activities, capital markets transactions and bank relationships.  This is an excellent opportunity to apply your analytical and negotiation skills and financial market understanding to contribute to the success of the company.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Analyzing, negotiating, and managing a wide range of financing transactions, which including but not limited to debt issuance and redemption, credit agreements, leases, letters of credit, and working capital facilities, etc.
• People leadership across the region managing indirect reports to ensure proper alignment, best practices, focus resources and efforts, motivate teams, and provide guidance and coaching for people with various and diverse backgrounds.
• Analyze and manage short-term and long-term debt refinancing need via implementing various financial instruments, including but not limited to debt capital market activities, banking facilities, etc.
• Review, negotiate and implement new banking facilities in addition to maintaining existing facilities.
• Review, negotiate and implement certain structured leasing transactions; Manage lease policy and lease authorization process.
• Prepare and coordinate for reporting of financing activities, including position and transaction summaries, market fundamentals, NPV analysis, etc.
• Manage and coordinate with regional teams to manage the administration of the company’s Accounts Receivable facilities.
• Manage the administration of the company’s debt portfolios, including internal reporting and analysis on portfolio, monitor and ensure accuracy and timeliness of payments.
• Manage the company’s letter of credit portfolio, negotiate, and execute relevant instruments for North America.
• Responsible for managing Company Owned Life Insurance Policy to support liquidity management
• Complete ad-hoc requests, deliver projects and fulfill other routine duties as may be appropriate and/or required.

Successful candidate has innate passion for the financial markets, is naturally curious with a desire for continuous learning, has strong analytical skills with impeccable business judgement, enjoys contemplating and evaluating complex topics, can articulate complex concepts simply and quickly, is able to make quick rational decisions with incomplete and/or ambiguous information, is resourceful self-starters with a strong bias to action, thinks ahead to what will be required and acts with a sense of urgency, have excellent project management and organizational skills and drives projects to completion by their deadlines, takes responsibility/accountability for their results, excels in negotiations, has excellent attention to detail, thrives in a fast paced high pressure environment, has a positive proactive attitude and works well as part of a team to collaborate for company success.

Qualifications:

• A minimum of a Bachelor's Degree in Finance, Economics, Engineering, or related discipline OR relevant military experience at or above a U.S. E6 or Canadian Petty Officer 2nd Class or Sergeant ranking.
• A minimum of 6 years of experience with a focus in planning, funding, investment or capital markets, and/or other relevant experience.
• Knowledge and understanding of: economics macro and micro variables, their determinants and their basic interaction
• Analytical thinking with ability to analyze complex financial instruments