Vice President/director, Treasury Trader

**DZ BANK Overview**

Work at a bank where you can successfully shape your future and the future of our business partners. DZ BANK is Germany's second-largest commercial bank, the central institution of the Volksbanken Raiffeisenbanken cooperative banking group, the central bank for around 700 German cooperative banks, and the holding company for the companies of the DZ BANK Group. We are a reliable and efficient employer that offers you new and exciting challenges. We value your experience, demand commitment and encourage personal responsibility. We combine customer-oriented action with sustainable solutions. And we think and work in a particularly cooperative manner - because we shape success together, and we would be delighted to do so with you.

**Group Treasury Overview**

The Group Treasury (GT) department manages and optimises liquidity within the entire DZ BANK Group. Foreign branches play an important role in money market funding. With local access to institutional customer business and the central bank, they expand the diversification of refinancing sources. This enables GT to optimally balance funding costs and risks and react to unforeseeable market events and business transactions at any time.
- Manage funding requirements of the branch via interbank deposits and FX swaps while optimizing the funding cost for the branch
- Seek market opportunities and provide continuous price quotations in money market products such as loans/deposits and CD/CP to both internal and external stakeholders in various currencies
- Actively engage in FX swap trading and provide continuous price support for sales units
- Prudent management and hedging of market price risk positions arising from liquidity and customer flows in compliance with internal risk limits and regulatory requirements
- Manage the local HQLA portfolio for regulatory purposes and for contingency funding measures
- Maintain liquidity ratios as per group wide internal liquidity risk model and per local regulatory requirements
- Explore and participate in initiatives to expand product scope and to diversify our funding sources
- Liaise with headquarter and other branches regarding liquidity management strategies and various business units
- Support / backup the structural liquidity trader in long-term funding topics, including but not limited to - calculating the cost of funds for internal business units, hedging market price risk in the long-term portfolio, collaborating with sales and intermediaries to promote the bank’s placement capabilities in the region for the bank’s MTN Programme

**Job Requirements**
- Bachelor’s degree in a relevant discipline
- Minimum of 5 years of relevant market experience in a financial institution
- Experience in trading money market products and a firm grasp of SGD and USD liquidity dynamics
- Strong knowledge in treasury products and in hedging and managing market price risks
- Comprehensive understanding of derivative products
- Proficiency in Bloomberg and advanced skills in Microsoft Excel. Programming skills in established analytical software solutions will be a plus
- Strong sense of governance to ensure compliance with internal and regulatory requirements
- Good team worker with excellent interpersonal and communication skills
- Self-directed, highly motivated, and able to work independently