Director, Clearing Treasury

Job Purpose

Intercontinental Exchange (NYSE:ICE) is a Fortune 500 company that operates a leading network of global futures, equity and equity options exchanges, as well as global clearing and data services across financial and commodity markets. 

By putting the needs of our customers and global participants first, we are a high-growth company that started by bringing transparency and risk management to the global derivatives markets. We’re engineers, strategists and problem-solvers who continually create and improve technology that solves market structure challenges on behalf of the industry.

The Treasury department manages all the cash and collateral activities in the clearing house including:

• Coordination of Treasury flows with clearing members, investment counterparts, custodians, and commercial banks
• Investment, liquidity risk, and collateral management
• Manage the financial risks (market, credit, liquidity) of the firm
• Drive strategy and resourcing across treasury and banking including investment, liquidity and collateral management
• Stakeholder engagement including Board, Senior Management and Regulators
• Management reporting and Data Management
• Operational Resilience and Risk Management

Responsibilities

• Ensure robust controls and effectiveness of the daily treasury activities, such as payment flows, collateral movements, cash investment and reconciliations
• Provide daily operational oversight and support.
• Drive strategic initiatives for ICEU Treasury as agreed with Senior Management Team and Board.
• Management and prioritization of technology book of work related to Treasury Projects
• Liaise with service providers, counterparties and stakeholders
• Maintain a strong professional relationship with partner financial institutions
• Maintain the Default Management Plan and the department’s Business Continuity Plan
• Contingency and operational resilience testing of various banking and liquidity facilities.

Knowledge and Experience

• Considerable experience in managing settlements and transaction processing
• Proven leadership and decision-making abilities
• Considerable markets knowledge of repo and short-term interest rates across developed markets
• Strong financial risk (market risk, liquidity risk, credit risk) management and operational risk background
• Demonstrated experience as treasurer or in a relevant market risk management position
• Detailed knowledge of applicable financial regulations
• Knowledge of monetary markets, business investment management and financing strategies
• Organized and structured with excellent attention to detail
• Ability to generate creative solutions to problems and challenge processes
• Willingness to dig into the details to resolve issues urgently
• Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills
• Ability to operate with urgency in a multi-tasking and deadline driven team environment
• Strong customer-focused attitude
• Reliability, flexibility and a strong work ethic
• Team and people management experience
• Willingness to learn ICE developed systems
• Proficiency in all MS Applications, Python, SQL, Bloomberg & Tableau preferred