Funding and Liquidity Manager

at  Close Brothers Group

OVERALL SUMMARY

At Close Brothers we look to recruit individuals from all different backgrounds and encourage you to apply even if you don’t tick every box. We celebrate diversity, promote inclusivity and are open to discuss flexible work options to help you balance your work and home life.
Join Close Brothers Treasury division where you will be reporting to the Director of Balance Sheet Management this role owns the first line assessment of funding and liquidity for the Bank. The role holder is responsible for producing the Group and Bank ILAAP documents and creating and owning the Bank’s Funding Plan and internal assessment of required liquidity holdings. The role holder is also responsible for ensuring that the bank has sufficient liquidity to meet its obligations at all times. This role has significant interaction with senior management, including at the ExCo level.

IT IS NOT ESSENTIAL BUT IT WOULD BE GREAT IF YOU HAVE/ARE:

• Awareness of regulatory developments
• Analytical with an attention to detail
• Results driven
• Customer centric
• Commercially aware
• Educated to degree level or equivalent, ideally in a finance or mathematical based subject.
• ACT / CIMA / CFA / MBA / other appropriate qualification
  We are an inclusive organisation and committed to ensuring our recruitment process is as accessible as possible to everyone. We will make adjustments for people who have a disability or long-term condition. If you need the job description or application form in an alternative format or would like to discuss the recruitment process with us, please email us at recruit.ssc@closebrothers.com or request a call back.

ABOUT US

For roles offering hybrid working: At Close Brothers we support employees to balance their work life priorities and in this role you will be able to enjoy a mixture of hybrid working.
Close Brothers is a leading UK merchant banking group providing lending, deposit taking, wealth management services and securities trading. At Close Brothers we provide financial support and advice to small businesses and individuals in the UK. Our purpose is to help the people and businesses of Britain thrive over the long term.
To find out more about Close Brothers, please visit our careers page: https://www.closebrothers.com/careers

Funding and Liquidity

• Responsible for formulation of the bank’s funding strategy. Working closely with the Debt Capital Markets, Savings and Financial Planning teams to ensure that the funding strategy is achievable and sufficient to support planned asset growth
• Maintain the funding plan as the financial year evolves, ensuring the plan remains realistic and escalating potential issues and challenges to Senior Management and ALCO as required
• Ensuring that the Funding plan is consistent with regulation and the bank’s risk appetite and there are appropriate controls in place over the plan