Director of Global Treasury Debt & Capital Markets

Summary

This Director role is a senior advisor and key leader within the global treasury organization, reporting to the Vice President & Treasurer. This role is responsible for shaping and executing debt financing strategy, liquidity management, capital structure optimization, treasury operations, and global stakeholder engagement across a privately held, multinational food and ag company.

The Director will partner with the Treasurer to lead analysis, execution, and lender engagement across complex domestic and international credit structures while ensuring rigorous covenant compliance, strong liquidity planning, and alignment with long‑term strategic objectives. This role influences major financing decisions and acts as a strategic partner to senior executives, including the CFO office and business unit leadership.

Key Responsibilities

Debt Financing & Capital Markets

• Partner with the Treasurer to analyze, structure, negotiate, and execute domestic and international debt facilities, including refinancings, amendments, repricings, and capital raising transactions.
• Evaluate market conditions and develop well‑supported recommendations on debt capital structure, cost of capital, tenor, security, and flexibility.
• Support the Treasurer in assessing bank capabilities and strategically managing wallet share across domestic and international banks.
• Partner with the Treasurer and CFO to ensure financing strategies align with enterprise growth priorities and do not conflict with existing agreements and ownership objectives.

Covenant Compliance & Credit Agreement Management

• Own ongoing compliance with complex, multi facility domestic and international credit agreements.
• Interpret and manage financial, negative, and affirmative covenants.
• Oversee covenant modeling, forecasting, and headroom analysis across base case, downside, and acquisition scenarios.
• Prepare and coordinate all reporting obligations including compliance certificates, borrowing reports, lender notices, and other required deliverables.
• Proactively identify covenant risks and partner with Treasurer to lead amendment, waiver, or consent processes with lenders and investors.

Liquidity Management & Treasury Operations

• Collaborate with senior treasury leadership and regional finance teams to develop and implement global liquidity strategies to ensure flexible, resilient, and cost‑effective funding across regions, including North America, South America, EMEA, and APAC.
• Oversee the cash flow forecasting process, including variance analysis, stress testing and liquidity reporting.
• Collaborate with treasury leaders, finance, legal, tax and other key stakeholders to oversee global cash management policies, bank account structures, and related controls, ensuring compliance with AML, regulatory, and cross‑border funding requirements.
• Collaborate with senior treasury leadership team to manage relationships with financial institutions supporting cash management, payment services, investment activities, and working capital programs.
• Work cross-functionally across the globe to establish robust treasury policies, operational controls, and process improvements to ensure efficiency, accuracy, and continuity.

M&A, Strategic Transactions & Capital Planning

• Partner with enterprise FP&A and business development teams to assess acquisition/divestiture financing capacity, covenant impact, and structural considerations.
• Lead debt‑related due diligence, integration of acquired facilities, and alignment of post‑close covenant and reporting structures.
• Support capital planning processes including multi‑year financing needs, capital structure optimization, and enterprise‑level risk assessment.
• Provide analytical and transactional support on major strategic initiatives such as greenfield expansions, joint ventures, or large-scale investments.

Global Treasury & Stakeholder Management

• Serve as a primary relationship contact for global banks, farm credit institutions, private placement investors, external/internal counsel, and credit rating agencies.
• Coordinate with regional finance teams to ensure alignment on debt usage, guarantees, intercompany lending, and regulatory considerations.
• Partner with legal, tax, accounting, FP&A, and risk management to ensure treasury decisions effectively support financial reporting, tax planning, and enterprise risk objectives.
• Prepare treasury-related materials for executive leadership, Board committees, lenders, and credit rating agencies, including capital structure strategy, covenant positioning, and liquidity risk assessments.

Leadership, Insights & Cross‑Functional Partnership

• Act as a key member of the senior treasury leadership team, supporting strategy formation, operational excellence, and organizational capability building.
• Develop and maintain subject-matter expertise in FX, interest rate and commodity markets, regulatory trends, and financial market developments relevant to the business.
• Develop and mentor treasury talent, building bench strength within the function.
• Collaborate across corporate finance, finance transformation office and business units to identify risks, opportunities, and best‑practice models that enhance enterprise decision‑making.

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or related field.

Required

• 10+ years of progressive treasury, corporate finance, global banking, or capital markets experience, with significant focus on debt financing and credit agreement management.
• Demonstrated experience operating in a privately held, family-owned company with governance, discipline, and reporting standards similar to a public company environment.
• Deep hands-on experience in an array of debt capital types, including secured and unsecured pro‑rata bank credit facilities, farm credit facilities, private placements, working capital financing programs (ABL, trade finance, etc.), institutional loan structures, equipment leasing, operating leases, and bespoke/bilateral instruments.
• Background in managing compliance with complex, multi entity, multi jurisdiction credit agreements.
• Strong understanding of secured vs. unsecured lending, guarantees, collateral packages, intercreditor agreements, and structural subordination.
• Proven ability to independently lead negotiations with sophisticated lenders and investors, while aligning closely with senior finance leadership.

Preferred

• MBA or other advanced degree.
• Professional certifications such as CFA, CPA, or CTP.
• Experience in food, agriculture, agribusiness, or other asset-intensive, working capital heavy industries.
• Experience supporting both family ownership priorities and institutional lender expectations.
• Global banking experience in South America, EMEA and/or APAC.
• Experience leveraging AI tools and building intelligent agents to analyze financial data, conduct research, and drive operational efficiencies.