Senior Treasury Manager

Optiver

  • Chicago, IL
  • Permanent
  • Full-time
  • 1 month ago
We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Senior Treasury Manager to join our Treasury team. This position plays a critical role in managing the liquidity, capital, and treasury operations across the US and UK entities. The ideal candidate will bring strong analytical capabilities, deep financial industry experience, and a collaborative mindset to help drive strategic treasury initiatives in a complex and fast-paced environment.This role reports jointly to the CFO US and the Head of Global Treasury. You will work closely with colleagues across the global finance organizations.What you'll doAs a Senior Treasury Manager, your key responsibilities include:
  • Cash and Investment Management: Oversee day-to-day management of cash and short-term investments for US and UK entities.
  • Margin and Clearing Management: Ensure compliance and efficiency in all margins and clearing firm activities, including performance bond requirements and self-clearing settlements.
  • Bank and Clearing Relationships: Maintain and cultivate strong relationships with banks and clearing firms to support treasury operations and funding needs.
  • Liquidity Coordination: Collaborate with trading and risk teams to model and manage trading portfolio liquidity, especially around option exercises, stress scenarios, and treasury tooling.
  • Intercompany Loans: Manage intercompany loan balances in alignment with financial strategy and regulatory compliance.
  • Investment and KPI Oversight: Lead efforts on treasury investments (e.g., repos, treasuries, MMFs) and provide key performance indicators for interest income reporting.
  • Forecasting and Analysis: Forecast liquidity and capital requirements by partnering with trading, finance, and procurement functions.
  • Regulatory Reporting: Monitor and validate regulatory reports including US risk-based haircuts and SPAN computations.
  • Capital Distribution Support: Analyze capital demands to support dividend distributions to the parent company.
  • Treasury Reporting: Own and deliver accurate, timely liquidity and capital reporting.
  • Treasury Transformation: Support global rollout of Treasury tooling. Assist in defining business requirements, workflows, reporting outputs, and integration points with existing systems.
What you'll get
  • The opportunity to work alongside best-in-class professionals from over 40 different countries
  • Highly competitive compensation package including performance-based bonus structure
  • 401(k) match up to 50%
  • Comprehensive health, mental, dental, vision, disability, and life coverage
  • 25 paid vacation days alongside market holidays
  • Extensive office perks, including breakfast, lunch and snacks, regular social events, clubs, sporting leagues and more
Who you are
  • 5-8 years of experience in the financial industry, with a strong foundation in treasury operations and clearing processes.
  • Prior experience with clearing in CFTC and SEC regulated products.
  • Preferred background working with FCMs and SEC broker-dealers, including regulatory reporting exposure.
  • In-depth knowledge of SEC risk-based haircut rules and margin computations.
  • Demonstrated modeling expertise for liquidity and capital analysis.
  • Hands-on experience with treasury investments including repos, treasuries, and money market instruments.
  • Solid analytical and quantitative problem-solving skills.
  • Familiarity with options trading mechanics, particularly exercise/assignment events.
Who we areAt Optiver, our mission is to improve the market by injecting liquidity, providing accurate pricing, increasing transparency and stabilising the market no matter the conditions. With a focus on continuous improvement, we prioritise safeguarding the health and efficiency of the markets for all participants. As one of the largest market making institutions, we are a respected partner on 100+ exchanges across the globe.Our differences are our edge. Optiver does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, physical or mental disability, or other legally protected characteristics.

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