Working for the Treasury Services of this major global insurance and asset management company, your role as Senior Financial Risk Manager will be a challenging and varied role. 

Group Treasury manages the Group’s balance sheet for profit by leveraging the company’s market position. 

 

It has three strategic objectives: 

1) to provide professional treasury services to the group 

2) to operate a first-class wholesale and capital markets interface 

3) to realise profitable opportunities within a tightly controlled risk framework. 

 

Group Treasury generates revenue by providing bridging finance, managing investments and operating securities lending, repo, cash management and derivatives business for the group and its clients. 

 

The business has consolidated its position in a period of difficult and volatile markets, focusing on liquidity across the group, management of the existing asset portfolio and conservative levels of new investment. Development of new product and infrastructure has continued, helping to maintain the dynamism and flexibility necessary to identify and realise opportunities for profit within acceptable risk parameters. 

 

Group Treasury works closely with other business units across the Group and the Group’s banking relationships to exploit opportunities and increase value creation for the company as a whole. 

 

Group Treasury employs over 30 people, mostly in London with three people in Singapore. The business is organised into four business lines: Treasury, Principal Finance, Wholesale Markets and Derivative Management. Back office, IT and other support functions, including risk analytics and monitoring, are outsourced to internal and external providers. IFRS operating profit was over £50 million in 2011. 

 

As Senior Financial Risk Manager, you will be responsible for: