Treasury Manager
Fixed term, Contract
Job Description
- Working with the Front and Back Office teams, supporting the installation of the Treasury Management system and the development of best in class Middle Office capabilities appropriate to the business.
- Ensuring the maintenance of a strong control environment, monitoring risk policy compliance, in particular the Liquidity and Funding Risk Policy and the Liquidity Framework, as well as researching emerging risks and their implications to Treasury.
- Recommending changes to structures and operational processes to improve efficiency and controls, reduce risk and deliver best practice aligned with industry standards.
- Analyses of the financial and accounting implications of complex financial instruments.
- Liaison with Asset Managers, in particular Phoenix Asset Management, ASI and managers of Money Market Funds.
- Monthly and ad-hoc reporting of the group’s liquidity headroom with an 18 month look forward, requiring analyses of and commentary on business unit submissions.
- Delivery of management information including Liquidity Risk Reports, the Liquidity Risk Management Framework and market analyses as well as supporting the preparation of Board and Committee papers.
- Regular monitoring of and effectiveness of Early Warning Indicators.
- Exploring liquidity solutions for accelerating, creating or transferring liquidity in this regulated environment.
- Producing analysis on emerging liquidity risks, for example, implications of the cost of living crisis.
- Integration of new investment instruments into the liquidity management strategies and in the establishment of an appropriate Risk Management Framework for those instruments.
- Undertaking analyses involving market data and peer group analyses in support of funding and investment strategy development.
- Providing cover to other team members in what is a small treasury team, in particular cover for the Back Office team during holidays and other absences.
Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
- You will have close liaison with other parts of the group and be able to build relationships leading to good communication and high quality advice and service delivery.
- Previous Middle Office experience is essential and experience in installing a Treasury Management System highly desirable.
- You can balance competing priorities on different pieces of work and you are comfortable with defined and tight timescales.
- You are expected to keep technical and business knowledge up-to-date in area of expertise. Maintaining up-to-date knowledge on treasury and technology processes across the Group.
- You will have a genuine work ethic with emphasis on professionalism and discipline.
- You are confident in your decision making ability, however provide flexible thinking and be comfortable with multiple perspectives. You are a collaborator who isn’t afraid to question or challenge.
- You are willing to adapt and have ambition to learn.
- An approachable team player, particularly within a small team, a “one team” attitude.
Reference no: 102033