Assistant Treasurer

Overview

The Assistant Treasurer, Capital Markets is an execution-focused treasury professional who supports the Treasurer in implementing the company's capital markets, liquidity, and funding strategy. The role is designed as a hands-on contributor, with primary responsibility for analysis, transaction execution support, and cross-functional coordination of corporate finance transactions.

Responsibilities

• Support the execution of approved capital markets and structured financing transactions, including senior debt, private placements, hybrid capital, and reinsurance-related funding.

• Aid in executing Institutional Funding Agreements (IFAs), including financial modeling, internal coordination, regulatory and rating agency capital analysis, and transaction close support.

• Provide hands-on analytical and project management support for the development of a Funding Agreement-Backed Note (FABN) program and its post-launch future growth and maintenance.

• Help in financial marketing of the company to debt investors.

• Act as a central coordination point across Finance, Tax, Legal, Investments, Operations, Actuarial, and Risk to support funding, capital markets, and liquidity initiatives.

• Partner with Legal on transaction structuring, documentation review, and regulatory considerations.

• Collaborate with Tax to assess tax efficiency, intercompany implications, and structural considerations of funding transactions.

• Work closely with Investments to ensure alignment between funding structures, asset strategy, and liquidity profile.

• Coordinate with Finance and Operations to support cash flow forecasting, settlement processes, reporting, and ongoing administration of funding programs.

• Ensure consistent alignment across functions on transaction objectives, timelines, risks, and execution requirements.

• Act as a key individual contributor in building internal readiness for institutional funding and debt markets, including:

  • Financial analysis and capital modeling

  • Development of reporting templates, procedures, and transaction documentation

  • Coordination with internal stakeholders and external advisors

  • Preparation of materials and analyses for rating agency discussions, investor engagement, and internal approvals

  • Support investor meetings and transaction execution under the direction of the Treasurer

• Assist in enterprise-wide liquidity planning, cash flow forecasting, and liquidity stress testing.

• Help analyze capital fungibility, dividend capacity, and intercompany funding structures across jurisdictions.

• Maintain dashboards and management reporting related to liquidity and funding metrics.

• Assist in evaluating the regulatory capital and rating agency implications of funding and capital transactions across multiple jurisdictions.

• Support preparation of capital analyses, projections, and transaction summaries for rating agency engagement.

• Monitor regulatory and rating agency developments and assist in assessing impacts on treasury activities.

• Support communications and reporting to shareholders related to treasury, liquidity, and capital initiatives.

• Prepare analyses related to leverage, liquidity position, capital deployment, and funding capacity.

• Afford evaluations of dividend capacity and capital return options, subject to senior review and approval.

• Support day-to-day management of relationships with banks and institutional lenders.

• Aid in administration of revolving credit facilities, term loans, and other borrowing arrangements.

• Track covenant compliance and lender reporting materials.

• Coordinate documentation and communications with financing counterparties.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field; MBA, CFA, CPA, or similar designation preferred.
• 10+ years of experience in treasury, capital markets, insurance finance, structured finance, or investment banking.
• Experience supporting debt issuances, institutional funding agreements, or insurance-related funding structures.
• Working knowledge of life insurance capital regimes across multiple jurisdictions and rating agency methodologies.
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively across multiple organizational functions to execute complex transactions.
• Experience at a highly rated life insurance company, particularly in treasury, capital management, or regulated finance roles is preferred.
• Experience at a leading investment bank, especially within insurance, FIG, debt capital markets, or structured products groups is preferred.
• Exposure to first-time issuer transactions, FABN programs, or institutional insurance funding platforms is preferred.
• Strong financial modeling, liquidity analysis, and capital analytics capabilities.