Treasury, Assistant Vice President

Crown Agents Bank; City of Westminster; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

A regulated UK bank is seeking a Treasury Assistant Vice President to manage FX and liquidity strategies within its Treasury division. This critical role involves ensuring compliance with regulatory standards, optimizing funding strategies, and monitoring daily liquidity positions. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in treasury operations, excellent analytical and communication skills, and experience within FX and liquidity management. The position offers hybrid working and a robust benefits package including a contributory pension plan and private medical insurance.

Benefits

Contributory personal pension plan

Life Assurance

Private Medical Insurance

Discretionary Bonus

Volunteering Days

Qualifications

• Minimum 3+ years of Treasury or Markets experience.
• Strong understanding of liquidity management and treasury operations.
• Knowledge of UK and Basel regulatory framework.

Responsibilities

• Monitor daily liquidity positions and funding.
• Develop liquidity indicators to mitigate risks.
• Assist in funding strategies and cash-flow forecasting.
• Ensure compliance with UK regulatory requirements.

Skills

Liquidity management

FX products

Advanced Excel skills

Effective communication

Analytical skills

Team collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Finance, Economics, Mathematics

Master's or professional certification (e.g., AMCT)

Tools

Bloomberg

Job description

Job Description

from, and across often hard‑to‑reach markets. Job Description The Treasury Assistant Vice President (AVP) will support the bank's FX and liquidity management functions within the Treasury division. This role is responsible for managing daily liquidity, FX position monitoring, funding optimisation, and ensuring compliance with internal policies and external regulations. The role holder will contribute to strategic balance sheet management, execution of treasury strategies, and enhancement of risk and reporting processes. This is a critical role in a fast‑paced FX banking environment, requiring strong technical skills, sound financial judgment, and the ability to liaise effectively with trading, risk, finance, and regulatory teams.

Responsibilities

• Monitor and manage daily liquidity positions across currencies, ensuring optimal funding and adherence to regulatory liquidity ratios (e.g. LCR, NSFR).
• Develop forward‑looking liquidity and balance‑sheet indicators to alert the business to future risks.
• Assist in short‑ and long‑term funding strategies, including internal transfer pricing.
• Support cash‑flow forecasting and buffer optimisation.
• Monitor the bank's FX positions and support hedging activity in line with treasury strategy and risk appetite.
• Collaborate with trading desks to optimise currency funding and minimise FX risk and costs.
• Support balance‑sheet risk management including interest‑rate risk, FX risk, and liquidity risk.
• Perform scenario and stress testing, sensitivity analysis, and contribute to ICAAP/ILAAP processes.
• Ensure compliance with internal risk limits and escalation procedures.
• Prepare daily, weekly, and monthly MI reports.
• Analyse treasury KPIs and propose improvements to risk frameworks and reporting tools.
• Ensure treasury activities comply with UK regulatory requirements (PRA/FCA) and group policies.
• Assist in regulatory submissions related to liquidity, funding, and FX exposure.
• Work closely with Finance, Risk, Global Markets, and Operations to improve treasury processes.
• Support system enhancements and implementation of new treasury tools.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Economics, Mathematics, or related field (Master's or professional certification preferred, e.g. AMCT).
• Minimum 3+ years of Treasury or Markets experience.
• Strong understanding of liquidity management, FX products, and treasury operations.
• Knowledge of UK and Basel regulatory framework (LCR, NSFR, EMIR, PRA rules).
• Advanced Excel skills; exposure to treasury systems (e.g. Bloomberg).
• Ability to produce meaningful management information.
• Effective communication skills for written and verbal reporting and the ability to present in meetings.
• Commitment to deliver and maintain high standards.
• Effectively prioritise tasks to ensure delivery meets critical deadlines.
• Team player.

Additional Information

• Hybrid working.
• Contributory personal pension plan: minimum Employee 2% and Employer 7%, employer matches contributions in 1% increments to a maximum of Employee 5% and Employer 10%.
• Life Assurance: 4 times annual salary.
• Group Income Protection.
• Private Medical Insurance (may include cover for partner and/or children at company cost).
• Benefit Hub.
• Discretionary Bonus, Competitive Annual Leave 2, Volunteering Days.

Company Description

Crown Agents Bank is a vastly growing and regulated UK bank that connects emerging and frontier markets to the rest of the world, using FX and payments technology. We are transforming the way payments and FX move through emerging markets, reducing friction so that more money gets to those who need it. Emerging markets payments are usually challenging, expensive, unreliable, and opaque. Our solutions help fix these pain points. Ultimately, we connect traditionally hard‑to‑reach regions to global financial infrastructure, giving access to the best prices and the fastest, most reliable settlement. FX and cross‑border payments are often complex and expensive, especially when operating in emerging markets. Crown Agents Bank (CAB) wraps its deep and trusted relationships and strength of network around innovative digital capabilities, and cross‑border transaction banking solutions to enable fintech, corporates, governments, development organisations and banks to move money to.