Treasury Governance

Responsibilities

• Treasury Governance Framework Ownership
• Establish and maintain a comprehensive, forward-looking Treasury governance framework that sets the agenda, defines roles and responsibilities, and ensures accountability across Treasury’s activities.
• Proactively identify areas for improvement and drive execution of enhancements.
• Ensure the governance framework supports strong risk management and strategic execution across liquidity, capital, interest rate risk, funding, and investment activities.
• Build out Treasury’s policy framework in close collaboration with subject matter experts to ensure alignment across separately governed Liquidity, Capital, Market, Credit and Operational risks.
• Internal and External Engagement
• Act as the primary Treasury liaison to second-line (Risk) and third-line (Internal Audit) partners, ensuring alignment on policies, controls, and governance outcomes.
• Lead Treasury’s engagement with external regulators, including preparation for examinations, horizontal reviews, and ongoing inquiries.
• Carefully coordinate governance and oversight routines that ensure Treasury’s activities are well-integrated with enterprise risk, compliance, and audit expectations.
• IDI Resolution and Contingency Planning
• Lead Treasury’s contributions to the bank’s resolution and recovery planning efforts, including both IDI and parent-level deliverables.
• Oversee liquidity- and funding-related components of regulatory submissions and internal contingency planning exercises.
• Ensure resolution plans reflect the operational capabilities and resiliency of Treasury processes and systems.
• Committee Leadership and Subject Matter Expert Coordination
• Own and drive the Treasury governance agenda across all key committees, including ALCO, Liquidity Governance, FTP Committee, and Model Governance forums.
• Act as a strategic coordinator, ensuring that subject matter experts in liquidity, capital, interest rate risk management, investment portfolios, and funding are actively engaged to inform and elevate committee outcomes.
• Design and enforce effective committee structures, meeting cadences, materials, and escalation protocols to support decision-making and regulatory expectations.
• Strategic Project Management – Treasury 2028 Change Agenda
• Work directly with the Treasurer to serve as the primary coordinator and a key contributor to the Treasury 2028 strategic transformation, managing initiatives that expand Treasury’s structure, capabilities, and effectiveness as the bank grows into Category IV supervision.
• Lead cross-functional workstreams and ensure progress is tracked, risks are managed, and senior stakeholders are informed.
• Support the Treasurer in aligning strategic project execution with broader enterprise initiatives and regulatory milestones.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, Financial Services Consulting, or related field; advanced degree or professional certification (CFA, CPA, FRM) preferred.
• 10+ years of experience in Treasury, Risk, Audit, Regulatory Affairs, or Governance functions in a regulated financial institution, or as part of a regulatory agency.
• Demonstrated success building or managing governance structures and engaging with both internal oversight partners and regulators.
• Deep understanding of Treasury operations, regulatory frameworks (including Category IV standards), and enterprise risk management.
• Experience managing across second-line and third-line interfaces and regulatory touchpoints.
• Exceptional project management skills with a proven ability to drive execution across multiple priorities.
• Strong interpersonal, communication, and facilitation skills; able to align diverse stakeholders and present effectively to senior management and regulators.
• Comfort operating in dynamic or rapidly evolving organizations, with the ability to design structure and build teams as needed.