Treasury Manager

Who we are

We're ANKA, is the all-in-one solution for sellers of products « Made of Africa » (fashion, art, food, or beauty…) to sell from anywhere, ship worldwide, get paid faster on international or local African payment methods, and easily manage their businesses. Our new vision is clear: Export Africa by building the future of selling globally! This is an excellent opportunity to join a small experienced and ambitious team in a fast-growing company. 

So if you are a Treasury Manager excited about our vision wondering where your skills will make a maximum impact and not afraid to roll up your sleeves, this is the opportunity for you. 

We are looking for a Treasury Manager who can manage Anka’s cash resources ensuring the company’s liquidity is optimized and protected from foreign exchange risk.

 This position is a manager role reporting to Axel, our CFO.

What you'll do

As the Treasury Manager , you will play a pivotal role in enabling payment operations at Anka across 9 countries, while securing and optimizing the cash position of the company .

Your general missions:

• Cash Flow Management

◦ Oversee daily payment and provisioning of accounts

◦ Identify and implement investment opportunities on idle cash.

• Risk Management

◦ Manage financial risk: currency, interest rate, and liquidity risk,

◦ Identify and implement hedging strategies as necessary.

• Treasury Operations: Manage and optimize relationships with banks and PSP

• Internal Controls: Develop, implement, and maintain treasury policies, procedures, and internal controls around the cash management activities.

• Proactively identify opportunities for process improvement within treasury functions and recommend strategies to optimize working capital, mitigate risks, and improve cash flow performance.

• Provide treasury insights on the use of working capital especially on the product related activities

• Perform analysis on the company’s cash burn and runway and provide recommendations on how to improve both ratios

• Produce a monthly gap analysis on the revenue performance against budget, prior year and prior month

What you bring

• You have about four to six years of experience in large international corporations or up to eight years in startups and small companies,

• You are 100% a hands on manager willing to roll up your sleeves in the daily operation of your work,

• You possess solid treasury best practises and you can demonstrate them in our environment, 

• Your are fully autonomous in provisioning accounts and enabling payments in all geographies,

• Because you did it previously , you are able to analyse and consolidate the cash position of the company, at different levels: group, entity, activity,

• You have the ability to organize and prioritise work to ensure timely completion of payment activities,

• You have a strong analytical mind and can communicate effectively your work to different stakeholders

• You are comfortable with finance IT systems and are able to automate low value added tasks.

Life at ANKA

Remotely. Work from your home or wherever. As long as you have a good and fast internet. Iteratively. We do 2 weeks sprints, daily deploys (if not more), and timely code reviews to ship quickly and minimize bugs. 

Collaboratively. Weekly AHOM, written weekly, quick biweekly video status meetings. Basecamp and Trello managed projects. We work as a team to help make our product better.

Flexibility. While we strive to stick to a plan we think is best for the company, we do actively incorporate experiment learnings and business feedback into our sprints. Mind flexibility is a must-have trait in our company culture. 

Our compensation package

1. A competitive salary alongside with a Ivorian Long-Term contract or consultancy contract ( for people outside Ivory Coast)

2. A health expenses coverage for you and your family

3. Significant Employee Stock option plan

4. 30 days paid holidays per year

5. Our culture “Teamwork, Determination, Accountability, Curiosity”

Our hiring process

• Screening call: 30 -minute with Marina, our Head of People & Culture to get to know you, discuss your motivation & fit for the role.

• Technical Test & Interview: with Axel.

• Meet the co-founders: 30-minute interview with Moulaye, our CEO to discuss the company goals, your career aspirations and your fit with our company culture.

Our Diversity and Inclusion Policy

We're Anka. We truly embrace diversity and inclusion. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to color, religion, sex, national origin, sexuality, disability, or any other characteristic.
If you want to be truly yourself, work from where you want but also work in an organization with an international impact, Anka is the right place for you!