Role Description
1. Being responsible for second line of defence oversight of treasury and traded risks, you will provide constructive review and challenge through detailed understanding of the balance sheet, businesses, their strategies, regulation, commercial and risk drivers.
2. The position ensures that Treasury Risk & Traded Risk management frameworks, controls and governance structures are consistently applied across this entity with a balance sheet circa £350 billion, aligning with Group-level risk strategy, and evolving regulatory expectations.
3. The position involves engagement with senior leadership, global and regional risk teams, external regulators, ensuring a cohesive and proactive approach to Traded Risk, Capital Risk, Liquidity Risk, IRRBB, Markets Treasury risk, Structural and Transactional FX, Stress Testing, Recovery & Resolution Planning, and Strategic Finance Risk in line with the responsibilities set out in the Risk Management Framework.
4. The role holder also provides stewardship for Treasury Regulatory Reporting and Financial Risk Processes for the entity.
Role Requirements
5. Tertiary educated with a post qualification in Accountancy (ACA, ACCA, CIMA) or Treasury (CertBalm)
6. Demonstrable expertise in retail banking in a bank with a sizable mortgage book
7. Prior experience operating in a senior leadership role and offering the ability to form effective relationships and achieve influence at the most senior level in the organisation
8. Ability to ssimplify and articulate ambiguous topics and know what senior stakeholders need
9. Experience of creating and leading a sizeable team and of effecting strategic change
10. Breadth of technical expertise across treasury subjects of Liquidity, Capital, Interest Rate Risk (IRRBB), Recovery and Resolution Planning, Valuation, Hedging and Hedge Accounting and Stress testing
11. Good knowledge of derivative markets, Treasury products and relevant traded markets.
12. Extensive knowledge and experience of balance sheet, income statement dynamics and liquidity issues
13. Ability to interpret a regulatory document on a specific subject matter and subsequently build out the required process to ensure appropriate risk frameworks are in place