Director, Treasury & Capital Markets
Wealthsimple
In this role, you will have the opportunity to:
- Serve as the primary relationship owner for financial and bank partners, ensuring deep alignment and synergy on our strategic goals and growth objectives
- Build and maintain a multi-layered engagement model with partner institutions across different relationship coverage teams and their key internal stakeholders (operations, credits, treasury and risks) to unlock new opportunities
- Lead negotiations on key commercial terms, capacity, pricing and yield to support Wealthsimple’s priorities
- Provide strategic guidance on new product initiatives that require bank/financial partner involvement and drive internal stakeholder alignment (Product, Engineering, and Operations) on product features and offerings that meet client and investor/partner needs
- Bring innovative solutions to all aspects of the role and Treasury & Capital Markets team, to enable Wealthsimple products to be best in-class to address our client’s needs
- Foster and deepen financial partners relationships; identify and build new partnerships
- Oversee Wealthsimple’s Treasury investment portfolio to propose investment plan, execute strategy, monitor portfolio performance and perform appropriate rebalancing
- Monitor market conditions, rate environments, and credit markets to identify and manage Wealthsimple’s market risk exposure
- Propose hedging strategies and work with the Controllers team to ensure proper accounting treatment
- Maintain and enhance Wealthsimple’s Investment Policy, FX Risk Management Policy, as well as corporate investment strategy
- Responsible for the counterparty credit risk management and collaborate with key stakeholders to execute on the framework
- Represent Treasury in executive-level discussions, articulating partnership, market risk and investment management strategy, financial impact, opportunities and risks
What you bring:
- 10+ years of Treasury and/or front office Capital Markets experience with direct external negotiation and engagement
- A demonstrated ability to manage external relationships with financial institutions/banks, capital markets counterparties, including leading complex negotiations that require deep understanding of balance sheet management, regulatory requirements and funding/money markets
- A deep understanding of banking and capital markets products, specifically deposits placement and FX/interest rate hedging transactions
- Expert in regulatory liquidity requirement and treatment (OSFI LAR, US LCR, and internal stress testing)
- Track record of standing up new deposits products, driving outcomes from start to finish
- Prior experience in leading negotiations on deposit agreement, trust agreement, ISDA’s, GMSLA’s, GMRA’s, and similar highly structured agreements
- A deep understanding of Treasury investment portfolio management (capital markets and investment products) and portfolio risk management (primarily FX and interest rate risk management)
- A passion for Wealthsimple and technology, specifically fintechs and AI
- An ability to thrive in a fast-paced and highly ambiguous settings, building products and processes from the ground up with limited guidance
- A growth mindset
- Excellent interpersonal and stakeholder management skills to build strong collaborations and drive influence across internal and external stakeholders
- Superior strategic thinking and problem solving skills able to drive large initiatives while being detailed and tactical in approach
- The ability to balance superior attention to detail with delivering with speed
- Very strong communication skills and ability to distill complex concepts and its impact effectively, especially to a non-Treasury audience
