Phillips Consulting - Our Client is a leading diversified business conglomerate in Africa with a reputation for excellent business practices and product quality. As part of a remodeling exercise, Dangote is seeking to recruit astute and qualified candidates to fill vacancies for its new Corporate Centre.
Job Title: Head, Market & Liquidity Risk Management
Ref No: DGT-PCL-HMLRM
Location: Lagos, Nigeria
Job Responsibilities
- Establishment and oversight of the groups strategic liquidity, including setting limits for key liquidity metrics, forecasting of the client's balance sheet including key liquidity ratios as appliable.
- Development and enforcement of liquidity risk management policy
- The role will involve liaison with the various business across the group, senior management including the board as applicable and other risk management areas.
- Although the role will include delivery of regular reporting output; it however involves constant exploration of liquidity risk management issues within the business functions allocated and leading projects.
- The position requires the successful applicant to be able to work independently without micromanagement and deliver results in a timely manner.
- You will be expected to provide high quality ALM management information. Your role will also be to challenge Finance/the Treasurer on matters such as the balance sheet forecast, ALM modelling assumptions, and ILAA type analysis.
- In addition, you will ensure that the group is supported with liquidity risk metrics on a timely basis and that liquidity and/ treasury policy is complied with and any breaches reported.
- Manage commodity pricing risk or foreign exchange fluctuations
- Manage the risk asset portfolio of the institution
Requirements
- Minimum Education: Minimum undergraduate degree preferably in Finance/ Accounting/ Economics
- Minimum experience – 10 years working experience with a minimum of 6 years experience working in a Market and Liquidity Management risk role
- Extensive experience within a Treasury department or business unit of an institution carrying out the above roles and responsibilities.
- Ability and experience to organize and lead across different businesses
- Experience in treasury risk and capital risk management
- Must be self solution driven, proactive and have acceptable knowledge of the business environment
- High aptitude with respect to topical issues in capital and liquidity regulation such as Basel III and CRD IV.
- Strong understanding of local and international liquidity regulations (PRA, Basel III, CRDIV etc)
Application Closing Date
11th March, 2014
Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should
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