Liquidity Manager/ FX and Interest Rates Treasury Middle Officer recruitment
This is an opportunity to work for one of the world’s fastest growing and most successful global commodity focused private trading houses. Given their continued growth, my client now requires an ambitious and experienced FX and Interest Rates middle officer to reinforce their front office Treasury desk. The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate the ability to adapt and learn on the job within an extremely fast past, ever changing and dynamic environment. This position will give the successful candidate exposure into the wider word of commodities and enable them to play a pivotal part in the current tightly knitted and entrepreneurial Geneva based Treasury team. Only candidates with previous and relevant experience within Treasury and/or commodities will be considered.
TASKs
- Participate in the daily FX, interest rate and liquidity management of the Group - Execute the FX and IR hedging transactions worldwide
- Understand the main objectives of each commodity desk so to fully understand what the FX, IR and cash management implications of these desks and entities are
- Manage and support the controlling of these desks / entities from FX and IR point of view as well as supporting the FX and IR position reporting at Group level
- Cash flow management / forecasting and planning – being more proactive than just maintaining a massive liquidity buffer
- Be up-to-date in the developments in the global FX markets and understand the driving factors of the FX markets
- Maintain a good working relationship with all trading desks who intern will be acting as internal clients
- Participating in a team which writes group level FX and IR policy and procedure
- Participating in arbitrage in FX markets as well as participating in IT developments in treasury
- Participating in cash-flow forecasting, and interest rate cost optimization including monitoring cash flows retrospectively
- Participating in liquidity planning and assisting in the control of liquidity management in the Group which includes participating in liquidity stress test modeling
- Assisting to maintain key relationships with counter parties (banks)
CORE COMPETENCIES
- Customer focus: strong internal customer orientation
- Communication: listens well and shares ideas /solutions; good level of negotiation skills
- Team Work: seeks involvement and input from other people, shares information to the rest of team; active member of the Treasury team
- Initiative: proactive, drives processes and tasks to achieve results; can work independently
- Innovation: comes up with resourceful ideas and solutions
- Ownership Accountability: takes ownership of own decisions and actions – successes and mistakes
- Management: gives timely, constructive and specific feedback
- Detail orientation: organised, methodical; good attention to detail
REQUIREMENTS
- Experience as FX/IR trader ideally in the corporate sector (commodity trading environment is an advantage), or banking
- Controlling experience in FX/IR areas is advantageous - Hedge accounting experience useful.
- Strong analytical background (Controlling / markets )
- FX hedging, interest rate hedging, using spot, forwards, spot + IRS, outright IRS's
- Understanding the role of EONIA / SONIS / LIBOR in those markets.
- Control focused with attention to detail and with some experience of developing reporting and producing and fx + desk funding pls
- University degree or equivalent in economics