Assistant Manager, Treasury Middle Office at Equity Bank Kenya

• The Manager, Treasury Middle Office is responsible for independent monitoring, analysis, and reporting of treasury risks, including market risk, liquidity risk, and counterparty risk. The role ensures that treasury activities comply with internal risk policies, regulatory requirements, and best practices while providing insights to senior management to enhance decision-making.

Key Responsibilities

• Monitoring adherence of all treasury risk management policies and procedures and reporting of exceptions.
• Review the correctness of the market data loaded in treasury software and take ownership of maintained historical database on yields, exchange rates, volatilities etc.
• Oversight of the treasury activity
• Participate in risk assessment of new products before dealing is approved.
• Development of robust valuation and risk measurement models for various trading products.
• Effectively support and supervise the risk profile of dealers’ positions, in line with internal and external risk management and regulatory imperatives.
• Query and analyse the Treasury P&L to establish trends and deviations from the norm. Investigate further the causes of any significant deviations from the trend and report to head of risk, treasury and finance.

Qualifications

Qualifications And Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in business related field from a recognized university is preferred with a post graduate training in Financial services and Risk management as an added advantage.
• Minimum 5 years successive employment in Treasury front/operations required, preferably in high-growth dynamic organization with a global outreach.
• Treasury/Risk Management certification.
• Practical knowledge of Treasury products and operations as well as Treasury risk management systems and operational processes. 
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Experience with risk management with demonstrated ability to conduct risk assessments.
• Professional qualifications such as ACI Dealing and Operations must.
• Professional qualifications such as CFA, FRM, FRR, CISI highly recommended.

Key Competencies & Skills

• Expertise in treasury risk frameworks, financial markets, and banking regulations.
• Strong knowledge of market risk, liquidity risk, and counterparty risk management.
• Proficiency in risk modeling tools, treasury management systems, and regulatory reporting platforms.