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Sr. Associate – Liquidity Risk

Sr. Associate – Liquidity Risk

CompanySantander
LocationBoston, MA, USA, New York, NY, USA
Salary$120000 – $205000
TypeFull-Time
DegreesBachelor’s, Master’s, MBA
Experience LevelSenior

Requirements

  • 5+ years with previous experience in Liquidity Risk Management (Treasury), Liquidity Risk Oversight, or related areas at a banking organization.
  • Bachelor’s degree in economics, finance, or related field, or equivalent relevant work experience required.
  • Master’s degree in economics, finance, MBA, or related field, with quantitative background a plus.
  • Analytical background and good knowledge of quantitative methods applied to finance.
  • Experience in US and European liquidity risk standards a plus.
  • Experience in Category I or II banks and/or regulatory practice a plus.

Responsibilities

  • Manage Risk Identification & Assessment (Risk ID) and Emerging Events process and reporting that is comprehensive, efficient, structured and integrated with key market risk processes such as Liquidity Stress Testing and Contingency Funding Planning.
  • Risk Limit Governance: setting liquidity risk appetite, calibration of risk limits, sign-off on limits frameworks, and ongoing monitoring of limit utilization and remediation.
  • Stress Testing: methodology development, assumption review and approval and risk measurement via sensitivity analysis.
  • Analytics: measurement, analysis, and reporting of risk measures including US and European risk metrics, development of tools for risk calculation and alternative views; governance of data quality and completeness controls.
  • Perform and enhance reporting to head office, governance committees, senior management, and maintain clear documentation of oversight processes.
  • Review intraday and collateral management reporting performed by 1st line of defense to ensure appropriate levels and that regulatory and industry best practices are in place.
  • Participate in the strategic planning and budget process to provide timely feedback/independent challenge; provide impact analysis (forward looking exposures and limits) on business outlook changes.
  • Oversight of cashflow forecasting including review of assumptions, Backtesting, and investigation cashflow breaches.
  • Contribute to ongoing initiatives and regulatory examinations, internal audit reviews and other remediation efforts.
  • Build and maintain a robust governance framework (policies & procedures) ensuring the banks adherence to regulations, supervisory notes, and best practices.
  • Build and manage a market risk issue management framework.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Strong market risk management principles, methodologies and tools, governance principles and activity preferably in a financial services technology environment.
  • Ability to independently operate in a complex, matrixed environment; adept at delivering and maintaining productive working relationships across business, functions and geographies.
  • Ability to interact with and build relationships with people from different departments and levels of seniority.
  • Ability to adjust to new developments/changing circumstances.
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills.
  • QRM, Power BI, SQL experience a plus.