Treasury Finance Change Manager recruitment

The Treasury Finance Change Manager’s purpose is to supervise change within Treasury Finance covering Global Banking and Markets (GBM), Asset and Liability Management (ALM) and other activities of the UK plc Group recorded on the Wholesale ledger and the impact on downstream statutory and regulatory reporting processes.

In particular the Treasury Finance Change Manager will act as a change agent with responsibility for;

-Supporting business developments and growth initiatives;

-Understanding of the control environment in order to be able to access the impact of change and input to change proposals;

-Ensure that the impact of change on controls is correctly assessed;

-Understanding business drivers / volumes in order to be able to impact to the architecture design; and

-Understanding the booking and reporting architecture in order to ensure able to assess the impact of proposed changes.

This role has the following key accountabilities and responsibilities:

1) Team work / Management

- The Supervisor will be responsible for managing change initiatives both initiated by Finance and by other areas of the business.

2) Process improvement Change Management

The Supervisor needs to be fully versed with the plans of the organisation in terms of growth, systems and other initiatives.

Treasury Finance Change Manager needs to;

-Have a clear understanding of the architecture around trade capture, trade life cycle, operations, risk and reporting; and

-Manage change initiatives including: Requirements, development, testing, migration and go live,

-Assess outcome of implementations and change,

-Have a detailed knowledge of processes and controls as they affect Treasury Finance in order to be able to assess the impact of change initiatives and also seek to implement a program of continuous improvement to existing processes and controls,

-Proactively seek out ways to improve the quality of processes,

-Seek out opportunities with colleagues from other areas to, maximise the benefits of improvement initiatives, eliminate duplication of effort and enhance control,

3) Controls

The Treasury Finance Change Manager needs to understand the control environment in order to ensure the impact of the change on the controls / processes are clearly understood, including;

-Existing booking models and volume constraints,

-Settlements system and controls,

-Risk reporting process and controls,

-Accounting posting model and limitations e.g. around GBO

4) Accounting

The Treasury Finance Change Manager will need a detailed knowledge of accounting rules for all Wholesale Banking business covered by GBM ALM. This includes both knowledge of existing and future products as well as booking / posting engines, in order to;

-Determine new accounting rule for new products,

-Understand the constraints around existing model e.g. trades not feeding down correctly and requiring journal adjustments,

-Set up posting rules in the various systems

-Understand statutory regulatory reporting requirements and changes in this environment in order to ensure that postings remain fit for purpose.

To apply for this outstanding role, please forward your Curriculum Vitae to Andrew Clark, quoting reference ACK1582710 at andrew.clark@robertwalters.com