Treasury & Prudential Risk Manager

About the team
PwC's Risk Assurance practice in the North is looking for a Treasury and Prudential Risk specialist to help us develop and deliver high quality Treasury, Prudential Risk and Liquidity assurance and advisory engagements to a range of Financial Services clients. In joining us you will be part of a market leading Financial Services assurance and advisory practice.

We have a successful track record in providing advice and assurance to clients across a broad spectrum of the Financial Services insurance industry, including Insurance companies, Banks, including Retail and Commercial, as well as other financial institutions including asset managements and pension funds.
Our clients are typically UK and Regionally based and we have a particular focus on UK Building Societies and Challenger Banks.

As a credible candidate you should have an Accounting or Treasury qualification and / or an interest in developing skills in treasury and taking further Treasury qualifications.

You will also have developed core skills in a wide range of disciplines including a working knowledge of treasury activities and be able to have a view on good treasury governance, treasury functions effectiveness and designing improvements that impact process, systems and organisation. The role will also require experience of Asset and Liability Management and treasury and liquidity related regulatory reporting.

Our people are expected to be capable of applying these core skills in a variety of business situations and industries and as a Manager you will be expected to be able to work in teams or independently to scope and deliver work.

In addition to your technical skills, you will have proven capabilities in developing relationships, building trust in new contacts and demonstrating that such trust is justified by delivering into the longer term.

The role can be based in Leeds or Manchester although there will be travel, primarily across the Northern region.
About the role
You should be capable of supporting the following activities:

• Benchmarking treasury function effectiveness, including providing detailed review of policies and procedures;
  
• Giving advice on treasury transformation and implementation of good practice;
  
• Recommending improvements on working capital, cash management, cash forecasting, investments, payments and banking relationship management;
  
• Advice on the set up and good practice balance sheet management activities, including ALM gap analysis, Liquidity Risk, Market Risk, Counterparty credit, ALCO reporting;
  
• Regulatory reporting target quality framework and regulatory expectations including over ILAAP, LCR and NSFR;
  
• Advice over the design of treasury target operating models;
  
• Advice on second line functions with oversight of treasury activities;
  
• Advice on internal / external funding, liquidity management and financial risk management (market, credit and liquidity risk);
  
• Treasury Management reporting;
  
• Organisation and governance; and
  
• Systems selection and implementation.
  

Below are some of the other key parts of the role you could be involved in if you join Risk Assurance:

• Developing new business propositions;
  
• Building relationships both internally and externally with other risk professionals;
  
• Development of new business relationships and business proposals;
  
• Building and driving the risk team to achieve budget / strategy;
  
• Working on a diverse client portfolio reporting to the Partner / Director / Senior Manager Groups;
  
• Managing and building day-to-day client relationships; and
  
• Managing junior staff and taking on coaching responsibilities.
  

Essential skills and experience Essential skills:

• Accounting or Treasury qualification (or commitment to complete a Treasury qualification);
  
• Strong understanding of the Financial Services sector, ideally retail and commercial banking, including the rating agencies and also the current regulatory landscape;
  
• Experience in working in Risk or Internal Audit functions in industry or through professional services and / or Experience of working with or in treasury teams in industry;
  
• Strong analytical skills including the ability to interpret financial and non-financial information;
  
• Strong attention to detail and self starter;
  
• Drive and determination to bring value to our clients;
  
• Excellent communication skills both written and oral; and
  
• Ability to work both in small teams and as part of larger projects.
  

Desirable skills, you need to have at least 3 of these skills:

• Ability to communicate clearly with clients at all levels;
  
• Ability to interpret financial statements in particular around debt issuance programmes;
  
• Financial and capital modelling experience;
  
• Enterprise risk management experience;
  
• Experience of developing, working in or managing risk functions;
  
• Be output focused and able to work autonomously without day-to-day supervision;
  
• Be experienced in coaching and developing other members of staff;
  
• Have the ability to develop client relationships;
  
• Experience working with the PRA or equivalent overseas regulator;
  
• Be able to demonstrate that you are comfortable leading teams and willing to proactively contribute to the team; and
  
• Experience of working in a professional services environment.
  

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