Overview
Head of Treasury- Crypto / blockchain / bitcoin essential
Our client is a global fintech offering fully remote and flexible working. They are seeking a Head of Treasury to manage the group’s Balance Sheet and P&L and maintaining a balanced structure within a regulated risk framework. The Treasury organization manages and invests the liquidity resources of the Group and initiates all relevant treasury operations across payment networks, cryptocurrency exchanges/ markets and derivative markets. All activities of the treasury function must be performed within an established treasury risk framework to monitor and optimize capital, credit, liquidity and market risk exposures.
As Head of Treasury you will be responsible to support the Companies global cash & crypto strategy and will be responsible for all investments. This will primarily include actively monitoring treasury positions and payment flows, ensuring that there is sufficient liquidity to facilitate settlement obligations, whilst minimising intraday liquidity usage. You will be working closely with other teams, such as Finance, Payment Operations, Trading Desk and Treasury Risk teams to ensure all cash resources of the Group are efficiently utilized and remain within established policies and limits. You will be a professional, with competent treasury knowledge (cash management, cryptocurrency, liquidity and FX), excellent communication and organizational skills to manage the global cash management for the Group across various time-zones. You will also support other treasury areas with emphasis on the design, development and implementation of treasury management systems and controls within scope.
Responsibilities
Manage daily cash management, forecasting and reporting activities including daily trading activities for Bitcoin activities to create a true 24/7 liquidity function
Manage cash settlement activities and trade execution along with counterparty risk assessments and credit management
Prepare and analyse daily cash positions for both local and international entities, ensuring adequate cash and liquidity is available to meet each entity’s financial obligations
Perform complex cash management and cash forecasting duties including short and long term forecasts
Collect market intelligence and create value through trading activity
Design, implement and monitor automated trading strategies
Help develop multiple scalable partnerships to ensure efficient liquidity for currencies including Bitcoin operations - day-to-day relationship management of existing liquidity and brokerage relationships
Review and improve efficiency of the Group’s global cash management to allow for prompt management of surplus funds. Finetune treasury-related control mechanisms to ensure full compliance with internal policy and applicable government regulations (EU, UK, Gibraltar).
Evaluate, develop and implement Cash Management Systems to optimize efficiencies
Forecast daily cash requirements and execute daily financing decisions
Manage flow across all agent bank, payment processors, and card programmes
Day to day management (and formalisation) of all cash forecasting cycles including variance analysis
You can pivot on the fly to enable critical decision making. Crypto and our deliverables are constantly evolving
Collaboration with other areas of Finance and the wider business around the cash impact (forecasting and monitoring) of trading results and business initiatives
Identify and support change to systems, processes and working practices in order to achieve continuous operational improvements.
Support various ad-hoc initiatives across the group involving the Treasury/Cash Management area (e.g. Cash Management System upgrades)
Qualifications / Requirements
Minimum of 7 years of previous experience working in a bank treasury, cash and/or cryptocurrency management function
Detailed understanding of cash management tools with “hands on” experience in managing cash positions in a previous role.
Domain expertise in cash payments infrastructure: UK (Bacs, Chaps, FP), EU (SEPA) and SWIFT, combined with liquidity management and reserve requirements at central banks (FSC Gibraltar, BoE & ECB)
Familiarity with relevant banking regulations (e.g. Basel III / CRD4, LCR, NSFR)
Consistent track record of translating analytics into improved funding and liquidity forecasting which results in: i) Reduced cost ii) Transparency over balances and exposures (including intraday) iii) ability to optimise the cash management desk
Able to apply commercial judgement to ensure risks and opportunities are identified and understood
Strong work ethic, ownership mentality, ability to prioritize, manage multiple projects, and execute in a fast-paced and dynamic environment
Keen problem-solving skills, with high levels of accuracy and attention to detail
The aptitude and desire to learn and develop at pace, attaining necessary qualifications and skill sets
Excellent partner and communication skills to liaise with other colleagues and teams
Can support and challenge colleagues from different functions in a constructive and effective manner
Strong sense of urgency and enthusiastic in achievement of high-quality standards
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