Senior Associate/Assistant Vice President, Treasury, FX Advisory & Analytics

Introduction

The Treasury Team seeks to enhance value and strengthen the organisation’s resilience by developing strategy, policy, structuring & raising debt, and managing FX & interest rate exposures and liquidity optimally.

The team strives for excellence in market execution and through continuous process improvement. As a balance sheet owner, the team discharges their governance and control responsibilities with prudence and pragmatism.  Through collaboration, partnership and objective advice, the team builds strong long-term relationships with Treasury’s network of stakeholders including the various investment teams, financial counterparties, bank lenders, bond investors, and the broader Temasek ecosystem of portfolio companies and platforms.

We are looking for an excellent candidate to join us, focusing on Advisory and Analytics for FX, Interest Rates and Cash.

Responsibilities

Treasury advisory on FX, Interest Rates

• Drive analytics and contribute to decision making on management of FX exposures at the asset level as well as aggregate investment portfolio for Temasek
• Co-lead the engagement with Temasek’s investment teams, and contribute to the ideation and advisory of suitable Treasury products such as FX and Interest Rates instruments

FX portfolio review 

• Engage the various investment teams through the life of their assets, and help distil insights and recommendations arising from the close and regular monitoring of FX exposures and P/L
• Co-own the design and implementation of solutions (e.g. dashboards) for asset owners to get direct updates on relevant FX metrics 

Framework & Business Development

• Contribute to the formulation and updating of the framework on managing FX exposures for Temasek, as well as other relevant business needs 

Product Knowledge & Execution

• Be part of the execution team of Treasury products across FX, Interest Rates and Cash markets backed by product knowledge and trading acumen 
• Work with asset owners, middle office, back office to ensure that funding and hedging needs of the business are met in line with objectives

Systems & Processes

• Manage relevant Treasury systems and processes for FX, Interest Rates and Cash with an ownership mindset, and work to evolve them in the spirit of continuous improvement and efficiency

Requirements

• Relevant degree
• 4 or more years of experience in financial markets desks of established financial institutions / treasuries of buy-side investment entities, large MNCs
• Excellent track record of analytics and expressing numbers via clear and concise presentation
• A keen eye for detail and aptitude for working with systems and processes for FX and cash management, trade orders and trading
• Critical thinking and commercially minded with keen analytical skills; established ability to ideate and develop commercial, balanced solutions
• Strong team player, clear and effective communicator (written and oral), adept at working across teams and independently engaging stakeholders across seniorities
• Excellent project management skills and time management