CMC Markets are currently recruiting for a Head of Liquidity & Collateral Management to join our team in London.

The role will work alongside both the wider Operations, Finance and Risk teams and will be responsible for Liquidity & Collateral Management including cash, Fixed Income products and currency management. It will also be charged with optimising interest rate management across the Group.
*** Please note that this is an onsite role that would require 5 days onsite per week in our London office near Liverpool Street. ***
Role & Responsibilities
* Ensuring that CMC’s banking, prime broker, custodian, other external counterparties and branches/ subsidiaries are appropriately funded.
* Own all aspects of the Group’s Business as Usual cash and Liquidity Management processes.
* Ownership of the firm’s cleared and uncleared initial and variation margin process
* Involvement in the Group’s strategic projects such as Uncleared Margin Rules (UMR)
* Ownership of the implementation and integration of a collateral margin system.
* Manage various aspects of Asset and Liability Management (ALM) including balance sheet management and hedging, forecasting, interest rate and FX exposures, across the UK and other global entities.
* Use analytical skills to recommend strategies to optimise the balance sheet from a liquidity, interest rate and FX perspective.
* Optimising the Group’s usage of available liquidity, regularly reviewing Treasury policies & procedures, ensuring that they are implemented through tight operational practices and processes.
* Developing and implementing cash reporting functionality to provide greater transparency around risk management.
* Ownership of all aspects of own cash working closely with the client money team on the current offering as well, as for new products.
* Manage a team (currently 1 FTE) of Cash Management Analysts
* Ensure the integrity of data so that it can be used by other teams within the business.
* Ad-hoc tasks as the role requires.
Key Skills & Experience
* Strong background in Collateral Management and understanding of cleared and uncleared derivative products.
* Experience of Liquidity Management and cash management operations including forecasting and analysis.
* Strong analytical skills and financial / treasury systems literate.
* Proven track record of project delivery to multiple deadlines.
* Team player with good interpersonal skills, excellent communicator at all levels.
* Proactive approach to task management and self-development.
* Financial products and markets experience including money markets and financial derivatives.
* Risk management analysis - cash forecasting, gap analysis, interest rate management.
* Relevant experience and/or Business, Economics or Accounting qualification.
* Strong written and verbal communication skills, ensures accuracy in own work and in the underlying data.
* Experience of managing multiple deadlines with a track record of delivering under pressure.
* Knowledge and understanding of financial markets.
Desirable:
* Financial Services experience or relevant work experience.
* Experience of Oracle Financials, Hyperion Financial Management and Hyperion Planning.
* ACT qualified or working towards being qualified.
CMC Markets is an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of gender, sexual orientation, marital or civil partner status, gender reassignment, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, disability or age.