Senior Manager – Balance Sheet Strategy

Your opportunity

At Schwab, you’re empowered to make an impact on your career. Here, innovative thought meets creative problem solving, helping us “challenge the status quo” and transform the finance industry together.

The Balance Sheet Strategy, FTP, Hedging, and BDA team is a team within our Corporate Treasury department. We are responsible for balance sheet management strategy, portfolio and brokered deposit notional investment allocation decisions, balance sheet modeling and analytics, market risk management, and ALM derivatives. The overall team manages fixed-income investments and asset liability management across several portfolios and legal entities totaling over $200BN, with approximately $500 billion in total balance sheet assets and $85 billion in off-balance-sheet brokered deposit agreement notional investments.

This Senior Manager individual contributor role will report to the Director, Balance Sheet Strategy and assist in the management of the firm’s balance sheet and investment portfolio strategy, ALM positioning, and the net interest margin optimization across three banks, an off-balance sheet sweep deposit portfolio, and a broker dealer. The Senior Manager will develop strategy and analysis for senior leaders, execute on the firm’s balance sheet management framework, measure and monitor portfolio performance, and will partner with investment portfolio traders and other business partners to build strategy that aligns with firm’s risk appetite.

This is a role where you will be able to grow your expertise through consistent challenges with the backing of passionate leaders who will value your contributions and prioritize your development.

What you have

Required:

· 5+ years of career experience in treasury, finance, corporate strategy and/or ALM roles of progressive level of responsibility and a minimum of three years of experience at an institution with similar size and complexity as Charles Schwab.

· Strong understanding of fixed income markets and modeling, asset liability management, and balance sheet strategy, including portfolio optimization, fixed income performance measurement, derivatives hedging strategies, and expertise in the ALM complexities associated with large non-maturity deposit portfolios.

· Excellent written and oral communication skills with experience in developing presentations and facilitating and influencing leadership for strategic decisions on balance sheet management

· Enthusiasm to work in white space and the proven ability to create innovative analyses to help drive the strategy for the company with creative and actionable solutions

· Experience with fixed income modeling in systems such as PolyPaths, BlackRock, Murex, Intex, Bloomberg, QRM, Calypso.

· Ability to multi-task while maintaining composure in a potentially stressful environment

· Bachelor’s degree required; Master’s degree preferred.

Preferred:

· Professional certification, such as CFA, FRM or PRM, preferred

· Experience managing the risks associated with a combined broker-dealer and bank(s) balance sheet business model

· Successful history of building and cultivating strong authentic relationships with internal/external business partners.

In addition to the salary range, this role is also eligible for bonus or incentive opportunities.