Matthew Thompson
Curriculum Vitae
Professional Status
Employed
Available
About Me
I am a friendly, outgoing and honest person with excellent communication skills, who enjoys challenge and responsibility. I have strong analytical skills and are able to quickly grasp complex and abstract ideas. I enjoy collaboratively working with others and developing effective relationships.
Treasury Manager
Air New Zealand
Since August 2019
- Treasury policy overview - update and review treasury policy to ensure best fit to company position
- Balance sheet, liquidity and cash flow management - involved with balance sheet management including currency borrowing and hedging decisions, forecasting and managing cashflow and liquidity levels
- Fuel, foreign exchange and interest rate management - ensure exposures are identified and effectively and efficiently hedged
- Relationship management - build and maintain relationships with external and internal stakeholders
- Reporting and control management - ensure controls remain robust, fit for purpose and accurately reported to management and the board
- Economic outlook - produce quarterly economic and market outlook for the board
- Strategic risk management - overview of payment processes, business wide decisions and contracts that impact on payments, foreign currency risk and cash management
- Managing Air New Zealand's treasury policy, balance sheet hedging, operational hedging and cash management response to the COVID 19 crisis
Treasury Performance Manager
Air New Zealand
September 2017
to August 2019
- Maintain responsibilities of Foreign Exchange and Jet Fuel Manger
- Compliance and reporting- manage positions in compliance with policy and produce report for monthly compliance meeting
- Economic outlook and risk management- produce report for and attend monthly meeting with CEO, CFO and Treasurer on economic and market outlook
- Transactional management - involved in various aspects of transactional banking
Foreign Exchange and Jet Fuel Manager
Air New Zealand
2005
to September 2017
- Foreign exchange hedging - responsible for implementing Air New Zealand's foreign exchange hedge
- Fuel hedging - responsible for implementing Air New Zealand's fuel hedges
- Fuel forecasting -produce overall and detailed level fuel forecast and scenario testing
- Fuel procurement - negotiation of fuel contract and supply at different ports, involved in management of Air New Zealand's strategic risks and opportunities in industry fuel supply chain
- Relationship management - point of contact for both banks and fuel companies
- Fuel price control - ensure contracted price is charged at each port
Funding Officer
Air New Zealand
2002
to 2005
- Cash flow forecasting - detailed daily 60 day cashflow forecast
- Interest rate risk management - management of Air New Zealand interest rate risk
- Cash management - management of cash balances and forecasting of flows
- Cash investment - investment of Air New Zealand's cash
- Credit risk
- Foreign exchange risk
- Liquidity risk
- Fuel risk
- Interest rate risk
- Strategic risk
- Active listener
- Articulate speaker
- Communicate effectively in writing
- Relationship building
- Communication
- Collaboration
- Negotiation
