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Within the Market Risk & Product Control department Treasury Risk/Financial Control is the independent risk control function for all treasury and ALM activities of Julius Baer globally. In this, it monitors and challenges the liquidity, funding, interest rate, investment, FX, and non-trading market risk management of the group. Treasury Risk/Financial control furthermore assures daily operations in terms of profit and loss reporting, FOBO reconciliation, reconciliation with financial accounting and price testing for all market facing activities.Treasury Risk/Financial Control is focused on the continuous maintenance and development of robust methods and systems for measuring and controlling treasury risk and financial performance, including but not limited to performing internal and regulatory required stress tests.
Treasury Risk/Financial Control collaborates closely with Treasury and ALM function but also coordinates with Accounting, Front Office Trading, Regulatory Reporting, Model Validation, Market Risk and Risk Governance to ensure the soundness and suitability of balance sheet risk management and solidity of Treasury’s financial result in Julius Baer.
YOUR CHALLENGE
Julius Baer is seeking to strengthen the risk and financial control function. Applicants focus can come from either risk background or product control experience. Seniority is not pre-determined but some relevant work experience is a must.
The role of the Treasury Risk/Financial Controller includes:
reconciliation between front trading systems and core banking system, independent price verification (IPV), daily trading P&L statements, month-end reconciliation versus financial statements
execution of risk controls on all Treasury related risk management activity, independent analysis of underlying trends, root causes and issues around Treasury Risk data and continuous development and review of Treasury Risk models
P&L explain and results verification of treasury front office trading and funding interfaces to the bank’s client business
preparation of management information via regular reporting, ad-hoc analyses and presentations to group asset liability committee and other internal and external stakeholders
representing control function (2nd line of defense) in the assessment of complex transactions and new product approval in the Treasury space
driving forward the modernization of the employed technology stack with regards to automation, data handling, visualization and analytics including the active participation in technology related projects
YOUR PROFILE
Personal and social
Independent, self-organized and reliable working style - ability to work on own initiative
Pragmatic with an appreciation of quality standards (sign off on daily/monthly financial results and risk figures)
Team player willing to be transparent and align proactively
Willingness to connect and ask questions
Open communication with a sense for the targeted audience
Professional and technical
ability to set numbers into context and interpret them
flexibility and affinity to utilize technology in an efficient and transparent way
ability to assess the full scope of a problem and willingness to grasp interdependence with regulatory, accounting, legal and business aspects of risk management activity
interest in financial markets, banking industry and regulation installed after the 2008/2009 financial crisis (especially Basel III), experience with recent developments in liquidity and funding risk management/regulation is considered a plus
broad knowledge of loans and deposit products, bonds, (reverse) repos as well as linear interest rate and FX derivatives, including the front-to-back processes and accounting standards
know-how, interest and self-starter attitude regarding automated data storage and processing (data base handling, programing skills and application management know-how are a plus)
skills and ideas to contextualize and visualize data in ways to facilitate understanding and decision making (business intelligence skills in PowerBI or Tableau are a plus)
Business fluency in English (German is a plus)
University degree (or similar) in either economics/business, data science or a quantitative field (including natural sciences)
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