דרושים Director Treasury ב-Intercontinental Exchange - Ice ב-United Kingdom, London

Job Purpose

ICE Clear Europe’s Clearing Risk Department (“CRD”) is looking for a Risk Director to focus on developing, managing and delivering the IT Strategy for the organisation.

Responsibilities

• Help define the IT Strategy for the CRD business, build consensus with technology partners, and manage key strategic deliveries for the business
• Work with the Atlanta Technology Team to migrate key services to the central Risk Platform, with the strategic aim that London produces specific end-user analytical tooling & reporting over these services
• Work with the local BI Tableau team to migrate core reporting to this infrastructure
• Work closely with Risk Managers and Product owners to ensure that application solutions meet the business needs, with frequent agile releases to end users
• Work with the existing London team to create, maintain and support existing End User Developed Applications (EUDA); support is ordinarily limited to office hours
• Create new Rapid Application Development (RAD) tooling for front line Risk Management, building reliable applications which will be used to manage emerging Member and Client Risks
• Develop across the technology stack; the team is currently working in Python & SQL
• Work across the local technology and business team to improve agile delivery and constantly find improvements to SDLC

Knowledge and Experience

• Proven development skills in Python and SQL at a similar organization, with a minimum of 4 years of commercial development experience as part of an agile team
• Ability to build and develop technology consensus across multiple teams, ensuring short and long term goals are aligned and delivered against
• Experience with trading, clearing, fund management or a related industry highly preferred
• Understanding of iterative development methodologies such as Agile or Kanban
• Able to work in geographically spread teams, building strong relationships with colleagues in different locations
• Confident in understanding business processes and analytics, and able to translate requirements into solid, testable technical solutions
• Ability to work in a fast paced and challenging environment where business demands rightly change due to market moves or regulatory needs
• Data management experience obtained in a Financial Organisation or Consultancy working in Finance, where you have experience in embedding the importance of data modelling and management within the culture of an organization would be desirable
• Knowledge and experience of delivery solutions in Javascript would be beneficial
• Proven organizational skills with strong commitment to customer service and product delivery
• Prior experience of risk systems is desirable, with an understanding of risk management concepts including one or more of back testing, stress testing, VaR, risk metrics or default management
• Knowledge of financial derivatives products across multiple asset classes would be beneficial
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills. Excellent analytical skills
• Detail oriented, results-driven and self-motivated

Job Purpose

ICE Clear Europe’s Clearing Risk Department (“CRD”) is looking for a front office risk director. The successful candidate will work closely with the senior management in overseeing and shaping the risk management practice at one of the largest futures and options clearing houses in the world. You will be joining a very dynamic team, be exposed to a wide range of asset classes and be challenged with complex risk problems. You will be responsible for managing all aspects of the day-to-day risk management and drive improvement and enhancements, including identifying, developing and overseeing the implementation of new risk management tools and techniques to enhance the risk management process and risk controls. You will also contribute towards the design and implementation of new risk initiatives and products that benefit the business.

Responsibilities

• Identify areas where the risk models, risk management processes, or infrastructure can be improved
• Assist with designing and implementing improvement and enhancements to models, risk infrastructure, and processes. Act as the project lead in seeing it through completion
• Frequent communication with representatives from clearing members, risk committees and senior management of ICE
• Strike the right balance between complying with global regulatory standards and achieving commercial business requirements
• Ensure the risk management framework and risk policies are being adhered to and are consistent with regulatory and industry standards
• Monitor model performance tests and assess the appropriateness of models in order to demonstrate policy adherence
• Conduct mathematical/statistical analysis to calibrate and enhance risk models
• Collaborate with colleagues on key policy and methodology development
• Documentation of risk polices and models to clearing members, regulators, risk committees and other governance bodies
• Conduct project work and run thematic or ad-hoc market research on relevant risk topics
• Lead a team of risk analysts and managers to foster a strong risk culture

Knowledge and Experience

• Master’s Degree in Mathematical Finance or equivalent degree
• Attention to detail and strong problem-solving skills with the ability to balance trade-offs
• Must have demonstratable experience in a role of the same or equivalent level and/or relevant professional experience in risk management and/or risk systems. At least some of this experience will have been gained in an investment bank, hedge fund or clearing house
• Strong knowledge in financial derivatives products in one or more asset classes (e.g. interest rates, equity, softs, energy)
• Proven ability to apply risk management models and techniques such as Value at Risk models, Liquidity Risk models, backtesting and stress testing models
• Ability to be a team player as well as to lead a team, and to help with creating a strong risk culture
• Proven ability to conduct research, analyze problems, formulate and implement solutions in an efficient, effective and independent manner
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, and comfortable in communicating risk issues to senior management for decision-making purposes
• Experience with SQL and Python preferred

Responsibilities

• Co-ordinate the development of relationships in the Asset Owner, Consultant, ETF Issuer and Asset Management market segments to promote our Index offerings in collaboration with Sales and Relationship Management teams. Clearly communicate the propositions and differentiators of our Index Solutions and assist creating new opportunities for the business.
• Conduct market assessments, quantify opportunities and devise multi-year growth strategies for priority market segments in collaboration with Product Management.
• Co-ordinate go-to-market activities and campaigns. Includes devising value propositions for target market segments, training Sales teams on the communication of the value propositions and opportunity identification and continuously assessing feedback to align our service offering to the requirements of client use cases.
• Sales enablement: Train Sales and Relationship Management teams on products and market positioning, act as an SME on opportunities to close deals
• Work with Marketing to support the commercial strategy with promotional material and documentation to support campaigns. Includes developing thought leadership activities.
• Develop and maintain relationships with Index clients to accurately represent the ‘voice of the customer” in documenting and reviewing feedback with our Product Management and Development teams.
• Ensure top clients are maximizing value from our content in order to keep erosion at bay and grow our footprint within these client accounts.
• Manage commercials for the Index Solutions business in EMEA. in coordination with Product and Corporate commercial management teams. Includes establishing frameworks for new products, input to the structure of client proposals and monitoring proposals and contracts to ensure compliance with company expectations.
• Collaboration with the Product team to identify and prioritise development requirements.
• Build strong relationships with strategic partners to position products and help maximize revenue growth

Knowledge and Experience

• Extensive experience working in Index Solutions in Product Management or Sales with a focus on Business Development.
• Commercial aptitude – must be able to identify commercial drivers and formulate an approach that maximizes revenue generation / revenue retention.
• Excellent planning and organizational abilities – must be able to effectively prioritise projects and on a day-to-day basis.
• Must have in-depth analytical and problem-solving skills
• Good presentation skills - must be comfortable giving demonstrations and presentations to internal staff, customers / prospects, and senior management.
• Customer-orientated attitude. Must be able to clearly establish client’s requirements, expectations, and end goals.
• Ability to work on own initiative and take responsibility for deliverables.
• Ability to communicate technical issues effectively with both technical and non-technical internal staff and customers.
• Ability to identify areas needing improvement in the business and to communicate this effectively to management and other staff.
• Team player – communicate effectively with team members, offer, and accept help where required.

Job Purpose

ICE Clear Europe’s treasury department manages all the cash and collateral activities in the clearing house including coordination of treasury flows with clearing members, investment counterparts, custodians, and commercial banks. The Treasury Director is engaged in investment management, collateral management and managing the financial risks (market, credit, liquidity) of the firm. The Director will drive strategy and resourcing, stakeholder engagement including board, management and regulators, and management reporting, data management, and operational risk management.

Responsibilities

• Ensure robust controls and effectiveness of the daily treasury activities, such as payment flows, collateral movements, cash investment and reconciliations
• Provide daily operational oversight and support
• Drive strategic initiatives for ICEU treasury as agreed with senior management team and board
• Manage and prioritize the technology book of work related to treasury projects
• Liaise with service providers, counterparties and stakeholders
• Seek to maintain a strong professional relationship with partner financial institutions
• Maintain the default management plan and the department’s business continuity plan
• Contingency testing of various banking and liquidity facilities

Knowledge and Experience

• Considerable experience in managing settlements and transaction processing
• Proven leadership and decision-making abilities
• Considerable markets knowledge of repo and short-term interest rates
• Strong financial risk (market risk, liquidity risk) management and operational risk background
• Demonstrated experience as treasurer or in a relevant market risk management position
• Detailed knowledge of applicable financial regulations
• Knowledge of monetary markets, business investment management and financing strategies
• Organized and structured with excellent attention to detail
• Ability to generate creative solutions to problems and challenge processes
• Willingness to dig into the detail to resolve issues
• Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills
• Ability to operate in a multi-tasking and deadline driven team environment
• Strong customer-focused attitude
• Reliability, flexibility and a strong work ethic
• Team management experience
• Willingness to learn ICE developed systems
• Proficiency in all MS Applications, Python, SQL, Bloomberg & Tableau preferred

Job Purpose

ICE Clear Europe’s Clearing Risk Department (“CRD”) is looking for a front office risk director. The successful candidate will work closely with the senior management in overseeing and shaping the risk management practice at one of the largest futures and options clearing houses in the world. You will be joining a very dynamic team, be exposed to a wide range of asset classes and be challenged with complex risk problems. You will be responsible for managing all aspects of the day-to-day risk management and drive improvement and enhancements, including identifying, developing and overseeing the implementation of new risk management tools and techniques to enhance the risk management process and risk controls. You will also contribute towards the design and implementation of new risk initiatives and products that benefit the business.

Responsibilities

• Identify areas where the risk models, risk management processes, or infrastructure can be improved
• Assist with designing and implementing improvement and enhancements to models, risk infrastructure, and processes. Act as the project lead in seeing it through completion
• Frequent communication with representatives from clearing members, risk committees and senior management of ICE
• Strike the right balance between complying with global regulatory standards and achieving commercial business requirements
• Ensure the risk management framework and risk policies are being adhered to and are consistent with regulatory and industry standards
• Monitor model performance tests and assess the appropriateness of models in order to demonstrate policy adherence
• Conduct mathematical/statistical analysis to calibrate and enhance risk models
• Collaborate with colleagues on key policy and methodology development
• Documentation of risk polices and models to clearing members, regulators, risk committees and other governance bodies
• Conduct project work and run thematic or ad-hoc market research on relevant risk topics
• Lead a team of risk analysts and managers to foster a strong risk culture

Knowledge and Experience

• Master’s Degree in Mathematical Finance or equivalent degree
• Attention to detail and strong problem solving skills with the ability to balance trade-offs
• Must have demonstrable experience in a role of the same or equivalent level and/or relevant professional experience in risk management and/or risk systems. At least some of this experience will have been gained in an investment bank, hedge fund or clearing house
• Strong knowledge in financial derivatives products in one or more asset classes (e.g. oil, power, gas, interest rates, equity, softs)
• Proven ability to apply risk management models and techniques such as Value at Risk models, Liquidity Risk models, backtesting and stress testing models
• Ability to be a team player as well as to lead a team, and to help with creating a strong risk culture
• CQF qualification is desirable
• Proven ability to conduct research, analyze problems, formulate and implement solutions in an efficient, effective and independent manner
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, and comfortable in communicating risk issues to senior management for decision-making purposes
• Experience with SQL and Python preferred

Job Purpose

Treasury is a department in a systemically important organization; the team is responsible for managing the collateral and liquidity position in the Clearing House including:

• Managing the Clearing House liquidity profile and liquidity stress testing
• Managing investments of ICEU capital and Clearing Member’s cash
• Coordination with Clearing Members, commercial banks, investment managers, custodians and regulators
• Managing all member payments and receipts, and all bank accounts
• Ensuring all Treasury reporting analyses are performed on a daily basis
• Liaising with other departments including Operations, Risk, Finance, and Technology
• Working with Technology Business Analysts to streamline and automate processes and enhance reporting
• Ensuring compliance with all applicable regulatory requirements and procedures

Responsibilities

• Monitor all Treasury KRPIs and identify and escalate potential risks to the head of the department
• Monitor financial market conditions to ensure safety of member collateral and ICEU’s own funds
• Monitor the full life-cycle of collateral through the Clearing House, assisting with the placement of cash into high quality, low risk investments across multiple currencies
• Support the review and development of Treasury’s liquidity stress testing model and analytics
• Identify opportunities for business process improvements by reviewing existing Treasury processes and procedures
• Work on strategic projects in collaboration with Business Analysts to document requirements and deliver enhancements
• Understand the broad macro and regulatory environment in UK, EU and US to help internal as well as external partners Complete periodic tasks in areas such as audit, finance, onboarding, and reporting
• Assist with project management of a large body of tactical and strategic projects
• Provide support to our Clearing Members and respond to queries

Knowledge and Experience

• Experience/ background in Finance
• Degree in a Business, Finance, Economics, Statistics or Engineering
• Organized and motivated with excellent attention to detail
• Strong interpersonal skills, including ability to multi-task and operate effectively under tight deadlines
• Strong quantitative and analytical skills
• Reliability, flexibility and high work ethic
• Experience with SQL or Tableau for data analysis and reporting would be advantageous
• Proficient in all MS applications, high level of experience with Excel
• Basic understanding in Clearing, Derivatives, Bond Markets Commodities and FX
• Strong project management skills
• Familiar with Financial Market Infrastructure including payments and SWIFT, collateral settlements and clearing

Responsibilities

• Lead a team through the idea generation, technical development, implementation and launch of innovative across asset classes.
• Be the lead contributor towards the design and implementation of new business initiatives (e.g., new products).
• Define strategy to leverage external data for effective platform/product growth within the region.
• Take a data-driven approach to product enhancements, identifying opportunity areas and contributing to the Product roadmap, prioritizing work to deliver against key areas of focus.
• Partner with Strategic Delivery functions to develop and execute on product roadmaps.
• Participate in both formulating the business strategy well as channeling into a clearly defined direction and product strategy.
• Work with other product and development leaders to ensure alignment with their roadmaps and delivery.
• Define strategy to leverage external data for effective platform/product growth within the region.
• Serve a critical role in the successful integration and subsequent product buildout of strategic company acquisitions.
• Participate in cross-functional teams (e.g. Product, Business Analysis, Software Engineering) in the development of business requirements to meet customer needs.
• Collaborate with target market representatives, customers, and partners to create powerful and revenue generating solutions for the marketplace.
• Expertise in business requirements writing. Requires extensive knowledge of all areas of the business including but not limited to content, development, product design, workflow, billing, and configuration.
• Must be well versed in industry and company focused initiatives, and understand how that content could be utilized within reference data products.
• Understand the business problems and opportunities in the context of the requirements and help recommend solutions that enable the organization to achieve its goals.
• Liaise with the Stakeholders in managing, defining, prioritizing, planning, and executing the vision for our applications targeting our core Data Services customers.
• Liaise with development and QA teams to deliver new features and resolve issues.
• Identify and communicate project risks and issues.
• Ability to operate in a multi-tasking and deadline driven team environment.
• Demonstrate a commitment to continuous learning by leveraging the learning & development curriculum to augment existing knowledge, skills, and experiences.
• Maximize efficiency in a constantly evolving environment where the process is fluid and creative solutions are the norm.

Knowledge and Experience

• 8+ years of experience in the financial services industry. Ideally, some of these were when you were leading a team.
• 3+ years of experience querying / retrieving data from structured databases (SQL/Oracle. Python).
• Excellent ability to communicate technical ideas and concepts to colleagues outside the domain.
• Ability to generate creative solutions to problems and challenge processes.
• Strong collaboration skills – ability to navigate cross functional teams to deliver on shared objectives.
• Excellent communication and listening skills with an ability to develop a clear message for senior management and craft the story around it.
• Must have the ability to develop strong relationships with colleagues at all levels of the organization
• Organized and structured with excellent attention to detail.
• Acute understanding of how data is stored and flows through systems and databases.
• Skilled in excel to analyze data, identify trends, and come to conclusions.
• Understanding of how to identify and develop product enhancements.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills - solid hands-on experience of functional analysis, with extensive experience translating business requirements into functional, design and test documentation.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills - ability to work with the client/user community to translate their requirements, however expressed, into development materials and conversely present development materials to client/users in a comprehensible way.
• Must be able to supervise, organize, prioritize workload and work on numerous projects/tasks at one time.
• Ability to work with technical teams (QA and development) as well as sales and end users.
• A working knowledge, and ideally hands on experience, of the development life cycle, covering basic design, testing cycles from unit to acceptance testing, implementation, and post release bug/issue fixes.
• Working knowledge of SQL for data querying and analysis.
• Familiarity with a range of product interfaces (XML/JSON Files, APIs, Front-End Viewers).
• Strong communication and leadership skills.
• Bachelor’s degree is a minimum.