Manager, Cash Flow Forecasting and Funding Management

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Manager, Cash Flow Forecasting and Funding Management

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The Funding and Liquidity Management team is part of the Balance Sheet Management function within Corporate Treasury. In preparation for becoming a Large Financial Institution (LFI), we are looking for an experienced Treasury Funding professional to help guide the firm in its journey.

• The firm’s cash flow forecasting processes, including intraday.
• Setting the firm’s Market Funding Strategy, Funding Plan, and execution of the plan through available funding channels, e.g., repo, brokered CD’s, FHLB advances, long-term debt.
• Collateral Management.
• Assist with developing, enhancing, and overseeing implementation of the liquidity frameworks for internal stress testing.
• Assist with interpreting and overseeing implementation of U.S. liquidity rules and 2052a reporting.
• Production of key firm-wide cash and liquidity position reporting, including availability of contingent funding sources, collaboratively with Liquidity Management team.
• Monitoring and managing firm-wide and legal entity cash and liquidity positions.
• Aggregating and managing cash and liquidity forecasts for the firm and key legal entities.
• Partnering closely with other teams in Corporate Treasury such as Capital Planning, ALM, Investments teams as well as Liquidity Risk Oversight and Internal Audit.

The candidate will report to the Director of Wholesale Funding and Liquidity and will be responsible for key aspects of liquidity management including short-term cash management and forecasting, including intra-day, and wholesale funding execution. The candidate will participate in discussions with senior management on funding and liquidity strategy and planning and will work closely with various lines of business and their teams.

The ideal candidate should have extensive experience in Treasury including cash flow forecasting and funding execution, liquidity management, strong markets knowledge, strong project management skills, analytical acumen, and communication skills.

• Partnering effectively with Lines of Business, Risk partners and other stakeholders.
• Development and enhancement of the short-term cash flow forecast and intraday monitoring and reporting.
• Short-term cash flow forecasting for firmwide and legal entities in partnership with lines of business.
• Assist with developing the funding strategy and plan, market funding execution, including developing existing and new market funding channels.
• Updating relevant policies and procedures, developing new as needed.
• Monitoring and managing firm-wide and legal entity cash/liquidity positions.
• Developing and monitoring liquidity KRI’s. Integrate liquidity management with firmwide risk appetite.

• 5+ years of Treasury or finance/banking industry experience.
• Experience working at a LFI firm ($100B+) preferred.
• Cash flow forecasting and intraday liquidity management experience.
• Strong working knowledge of wholesale funding markets and experience with funding execution.
• Strong management skills with a team first approach.
• Bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting, or related discipline.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to promote partnership with Liquidity Risk Oversight and Corporate Treasury.
• Strong, clear, and concise written and verbal communication skills with ability to prepare executive level presentations.
• Strong organizational and execution skills.
• Knowledge of bank regulations strongly preferred.
• Location:
  
  Corporate Headquarters in Phoenix, AZ.

We offer all the important things you’d want – competitive salaries, an ownership stake in the company, medical and dental insurance, time off, a great 401k matching program, tuition assistance program, an employee volunteer program, and a wellness program. In addition, you’ll have the opportunity to bolster your business knowledge, learning the ins and outs of how successful companies operate and manage their finances, giving you invaluable hands‑on experience to help grow your career!

Western Alliance Bank is a wholly owned subsidiary of Western Alliance Bancorporation.…