eFinancialCareers

• Company

  Pemberton Search

• Location

  UAE-Abu Dhabi

• Compensation

  Excellent - Tax Free

• Position Type

  Permanent

• Employment type

  Full time

• Updated

  20 Nov 2009

• eFC Ref no

  580395

Our client is one of the leading financial services firms in the region.  Its focus is to develop and manage an extensive and economically diverse portfolio. The company manages a multi-billion dollar portfolio of local, regional, and international investments, projects and initiatives.

Role Objective:

• As part of the treasury team the candidate will be responsible for identifying the risk related to interest rate, FX, commodity and Balance Sheet exposures. These are generated from multi asset classes across numerous investee companies.

Role Responsibilities:

• Assist in the integration of the strategic risk management platform.
• Asset and liability management/ transfer pricing/ interest allocation on what will become the ‘banking book.’
• Assist in the implementation of an Asset and Liability management system for monitoring and managing the ‘banking book’ risks.
• Assist in the development of a Group wide risk committee, provide input to the terms of reference, stakeholder management, performance metrics and implementation of Group wide policies and procedures from a financial risk management perspective.
• Embedding of risk management measurement tools (GAP, VaR etc)
• Provide foreign exchange and interest rate risk management solutions to investee companies.
• Act in a consultative capacity to develop the investee companies in their knowledge and understanding of key financial risks and measurement.
• Training and Development of junior team members.

Candidate Requirements:

Technical:

• Fully qualified accountant (ACCA or ACA) or ACT (association of corporate treasurers).
• Experience in a regulated market is essential. (5 years +)
• Experience monitoring, measuring and controlling a financial insitution or corporate's Treasury function, including market, credit, liquidity and operational risk.
• Experience implementing or standardising treasury policies and procedures. (advantageous)
• Interpretation and analysis of financial statements and business plans for use with the strategic risk management platform. To understand and articulate output to senior management.
• Working knowledge, understanding and experience of financial markets including use of Bloomberg for pricing and market news.
• Treasury products, hedging techniques, policies, processes and procedures.
• Practical experience and exposure to transfer pricing, interest allocation, portfolio funding, match funding, duration and the management of associated risks.
• Involvement and use of key risk management metrics and exposure to treasury and risk systems (deal capture systems and asset and liability management models).

Generic:

• Exposure to the front office to ensure that funding and liquidity risks are well understood.
• Able to operate effectively in a multi-cultural environment. Previous international experience an advantage.
• Excellent communication, influencing and client facing skills.
• Proof of interfacing with other divisions including finance, operations and audit.
• Leadership and coaching skills.

Contact Us

For more information regarding the role, organization and the career development opportunities available within our client, please contact Hannah Cole at:

Email: hannah.cole@pembertonsearch.com

Direct Line: +44 (0) 207 280 9648

Mobile: +44 (0) 7827 341 645