Mission for Treasury:
Provide treasury facilities to ensure optimization of the firm’s benefit on funding cost and investment return on the firm’s excess cash. The investment of excess cash must be done in prudent manner and under the firm’s investment policy. Treasury also establishes the equity assignment and inter-department financial charge system to help business units make business decision on economically justifiable basis.
Duties of Treasury
- Secure credit facilities from financial institutions to accommodate business activities in various areas. The credit facilities must be flexible enough and cost effective to the firm.
- Explore investment alternatives, which provide competitive investment return for the company’s excess cash. The investment is prudently made and is consistent with the company’s investment policy.
- Balance the funding need and financial return to make sure that the opportunity cost of holding idle cash is kept at minimum.
- Identify interest rate risk overtime and manage treasury function appropriately under each circumstance.
- Provide clear and timely advice on treasury issue in the process of making decisions on any new business initiatives.
- Occasionally provide economic and money market information to the top management for decision making.
- Improve treasury’s efficiency and effectiveness through the usage of new technology and cash management techniques.
- Cooperate with all parties concerned to embed the equity assignment and inter-department financial charge system into business decision process.