Vice President - Funding & Liquidity Strategy

Taurus Search; New York (NY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 320,000; Full time

Job summary

Taurs Search is assisting a leading U.S. G-SIB with a Vice President, Liquidity Strategy & Risk role in New York. The role centers on strategic assessment of liquidity and funding, with independent analysis and challenge of balance-sheet positioning and risk appetite.

The VP collaborates with Treasury, Finance, Risk, and business units to assess impact of market conditions and regulatory changes on liquidity and funding strategies. A forward-looking, commercial mindset is essential.

Qualifications

• Experience in liquidity strategy and liquidity risk management within a large financial institution.
• Strong understanding of funding markets, balance-sheet management, and stress testing.
• Ability to provide credible challenge to senior stakeholders and communicate effectively.
• Proven analytical skills and strategic, forward-looking mindset.

Responsibilities

• Assess liquidity and funding strategy, identify risks and opportunities.
• Analyze liquidity positions, headroom, and balance-sheet drivers under normal and stressed scenarios.
• Challenge Treasury on funding plans, liquidity positioning, and balance-sheet management.
• Review ILST methodologies, assumptions, scenarios, and results.
• Evaluate impact of growth, market conditions, and funding activity on liquidity risk.
• Support liquidity risk appetite, limits, forecasting, and scenario analysis.
• Produce clear, forward-looking analyses for senior management and governance.
• Partner across Treasury, Finance, Risk, and front office on initiatives.
• Support regulatory examinations and governance discussions.

Skills

Liquidity strategy

Liquidity risk

Treasury

Funding

Balance-sheet management

Liquidity stress testing

Analytical thinking

Stakeholder communication

Job description

A leading U.S. G-SIB is looking to hire a Vice President within its Liquidity Strategy & Risk team in New York. This is a highly visible role focused on the strategic assessment of the firm’s liquidity and funding profile, providing independent analysis and challenge around balance-sheet positioning, funding strategy, liquidity stress testing, and risk appetite.

The VP will work closely with senior stakeholders across Treasury, Finance, Risk, and the businesses, helping assess how changes in the balance sheet, funding markets, business activity, and the regulatory environment impact the firm’s liquidity position and strategic funding decisions.

This role offers significantly broader exposure than a traditional liquidity-monitoring position. The successful candidate will operate at the intersection of liquidity risk, Treasury strategy, and balance-sheet management, helping senior leadership understand the firm's evolving liquidity profile and make informed funding and capital-allocation decisions.

The position should appeal to someone who combines a strong technical understanding of liquidity with a more commercial, strategic, and forward-looking mindset.

Key Responsibilities

• Assess the firm’s liquidity and funding strategy, identifying emerging risks, vulnerabilities, and opportunities to strengthen balance-sheet resilience.
• Analyze liquidity positions, funding concentrations, liquidity headroom, and key balance-sheet drivers across normal and stressed environments.
• Provide strategic challenge to Treasury around funding plans, liquidity positioning, asset-liability management, and contingency funding strategies.
• Review and challenge Internal Liquidity Stress Testing (ILST) methodologies, assumptions, scenarios, and results.
• Evaluate the impact of business growth, market conditions, secured and unsecured funding activity, and balance-sheet changes on liquidity risk.
• Support the development of liquidity risk appetite, limits, forecasting, and scenario analysis.
• Produce clear, forward-looking analysis for senior management and governance committees, translating complex liquidity issues into actionable strategic insights.
• Partner across Treasury, Finance, Risk, and front-office businesses on strategic liquidity and balance-sheet initiatives.
• Support regulatory examinations and senior-level discussions relating to liquidity, funding, and stress testing.

Candidate Profile

The successful candidate will ideally bring:

• Experience in liquidity strategy, liquidity risk, Treasury, funding, balance-sheet management, or broader financial risk management within a large financial institution.
• Strong understanding of bank funding and liquidity dynamics, including the interaction between balance-sheet strategy, liquidity buffers, funding markets, and stress testing.
• Experience with liquidity stress testing, risk appetite, liquidity limits, or strategic funding analysis.
• Strong analytical capabilities and the ability to identify the key commercial and risk implications within complex datasets.
• Ability to provide credible challenge and communicate effectively with senior stakeholders across Treasury, Risk, Finance, and the businesses.
• Strong written and presentation skills, particularly around senior management and governance materials.

Exposure to any of the following would be highly valued:

• Secured funding, prime brokerage, securities financing, or trading-book liquidity
• LCR, NSFR, Regulation YY, FR 2052a/6G, and ILST
• Contingency funding planning and liquidity stress scenarios
• Balance-sheet optimization and funding strategy
• Liquidity forecasting and scenario analysis