Bank Funding Senior Trader

Job Description:

This role is on the Global Funding team within Treasury; specifically the US Bank and Parent Company Team. The role has responsibility for Position Management including the daily cash position, short-term liquidity forecasts, coordination with tactical and strategic funding efforts, internal funding execution, and ongoing analytics to optimize deployment and funding actions.

Global Funding employees interact daily with internal and external constituents including business lines, other Treasury functions such as Balance Sheet Management (BSM), Finance, Capital Management and Global Liquidity Management (GLM), internal control partners, regulators, market participants and investors. Global Funding strives to utilize its global presence to provide efficient funding strategies across the enterprise in the most cost effective manner, while managing the risks associated with those strategies.  The US Bank and Parent Team are tasked to forecast the sources and uses of funds across the US Bank and Parent (Holdco) taking into account business input and projected market conditions in order to manage effectively the Corporation’s key cash and liquidity positions. Implementation of our funding and hedging strategies necessitates flawlessly executing transactions with internal and external counterparties in accordance with liquidity constraints, internal guidelines, legal limitations and regulatory directives.

This role requires critical thinking about the many challenges facing our company and industry with an emphasis on attention to detail, teamwork and strong communication skills. The Treasury group provides an opportunity to gain broad knowledge about the company and its many businesses as well as the global markets in which we transact. Your day to day experience will be varied and challenging, and will allow you to extend your skills within various disciplines, such as market analysis, short term money markets & real time liquidity risk management.

Key job responsibilities:

• Participate in BANA cash and liquidity forecasting routines to identify risks and ensure compliance with relevant liquidity risk metrics

• Engage with business partners including BSM, GLM, and CFO Risk to analyze balance sheet changes, identify subsequent risks to the liquidity and cash position

• Execute intercompany funding transactions, supporting USD funding needs of non-US branches and subsidiaries

• Participate and drive Technology initiatives to integrate Global Funding capabilities (including integration across Treasury groups) and to further enhance tools to manage liquidity risk globally

• Develop thorough understanding of Federal Reserve monetary policy. Analyze impacts to short-term money market rates and liquidity resulting from changes in Fed policy

• Perform extensive ad-hoc financial analysis related to funding risks and opportunities

• Assist in coordination and completion of both internal and external audits and regulatory related exams

• Ensure that a robust control environment is maintained through compliance with all policies, procedures and directives

Job Requirements:

• Undergraduate degree with quantitative focus / prefer finance, accounting or engineering major

• Minimum two years treasury, finance or trading experience

• Strong analytical, investigative problem-solving, and decision making skills   

• Strong Excel skills are a must

• Ability to thrive in a fast paced, demanding environment, adapt to changing priorities and demonstrate initiative

• Inquisitive, willing to challenge the status quo and strive to improve processes

• Ability to work independently, with a team, with minimal supervision and efficiently prioritize tasks

• Ability to communicate effectively across a broad range of constituents in verbal, written and presentation forms

• Ability to build and maintain strong relationships across the Enterprise

• Comfortable leading an initiative as well as playing a support role on a broader team

Desired skills:

• Familiarity with financial regulatory environment

• Bloomberg and other market sources

• SQL and/or other advanced data manipulation skills

• Python

• CFA

• GDA

Shift:

1st shift (United States of America)

Hours Per Week: 

40