Associate - Liquidity Management Asia Ex-japan (Aej)

**Functional Job Title**
**Liquidity Management Asia ex-Japan (AEJ)**
**Corporate Title**
Associate
**Department**
Corporate Treasury (Finance)
**Employing Entity**
Nomura Singapore Limited

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**Function Overview**

Corporate Treasury is responsible for managing all aspects of liquidity and funding requirements of the firm in accordance with the Executive Management Boards mandated risk appetite and in compliance with regulatory liquidity metrics.

The Global Liquidity Management (LM) team is responsible for designing and implementing the global liquidity management framework covering areas such as liquidity risk policy, liquidity risk monitoring and mitigation, FTP policy, CFP and ownership of the regulatory liquidity ratios such as LCR and NSFR.

A significant portion of the role involves working directly with senior stakeholders across the business, finance, operations and risk to ensure continuous dialogue and review of all matters relevant to liquidity management.

The LM team is also responsible for driving the change agenda, working with business and other finance functions to onboard new products and/or adopt new technologies and move away from legacy reporting infrastructure.

**Responsibilities**

Some of the key responsibilities will include:
Liquidity Risk Management

a. Design, implement and monitor liquidity risk framework for Asia ex Japan business and entities
- Liquidity risk modelling for global markets business
- Continuously review the liquidity risk framework in light of changing business dynamics
- Forecasting liquidity pipeline under both BAU and stress scenarios
- Design and implement an FX management framework, including collateral swaps
- Design liquidity sources and uses analysis at country and regional level
b. Understand country specific challenges, especially Singapore, Korea and India regulatory requirements and nuances
c. Co-ordinate and lead annual CFP exercises across the Asia ex-Japan region
d. Development of FTP policies to support commercial decision making, taking into account specific country nuances and cross-border restrictions

Regulatory Liquidity Compliance

a. Engagement with business for liquidity optimization and trade mitigation
b. Design, implement and maintain a regulatory reporting control, governance and escalation frameworks
c. Contribute to annual governance attestations such as RCSA, EUC, BCP
d. Daily/monthly report review, challenge and sign-off, working closely with the off-shore production team

Change Agenda

a. Responsible for end to end daily Treasury MI from data sourcing and automation of liquidity reporting to explains and business MI
b. Treasury lead for new business initiatives - technology upgrade, ESTB program setup, new product implementation etc.
c. Involvement in UAT and impact assessment of policy changes
d. Treasury point of contact for business, operations, finance and other functions for all things change related

Stakeholder Interaction

a. Regular interaction with business CAOs to understand the liquidity pipeline, liquidity usage drivers and assist with the financial resource budgeting process
b. Interacting with a variety of different desks to help drive business strategy and the firms return dynamics with particular attention to time to market to stay competitive in the market
c. Work with other corporate finance and risk functions to make effective use of the firm's balance sheet (capital and liquidity) to help meet business objectives. Must have visionary responses and have Sense & Response attitude
d. Proactively articulate and explain both verbally and in writing processes and procedures to Risk, Audit and Model Validation colleagues with governance and controls in mind

**Requirements**:
a. University degree
b. Minimum 10 years' experience in ALM/ Liquidity Risk Management in an international financial institution
c. Minimum 10 years' experience in design and implementation of liquidity risk and ALM framework
d. Focus on Asian jurisdiction, especially Singapore, Korea and India
e. Deep understanding with hands on experience of the regulatory liquidity framework, funding, recovery & resolution planning
f. Strong quantitative & analytical skills with advanced data handling, documentation and presentation skills
g. Self-starter and eager to learn, able to take ownership of issues and drive to conclusion with particular emphasis on time to market
h. Able to explain complex issues, policies, and procedures to varied stakeholders across senior management, peers, finance functions, risk, audit, model validation etc.
i. Communicate confidently to senior desk heads across various business lines
j. Strong negotiation and conflict management skills
k. Experience of Tableau and Power BI is highly desirable
l. Prior experience in digital transformation of Treasury function is highly desirable

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