Head, Treasury Markets, Australia

Job ID: 41977

Location: Sydney, AU

Area of interest: Treasury

Job type: Regular Employee

Work style: Office Working

Opening date: 10 Oct 2025

**RESPONSIBILITIES**

**Strategy**
- Estimate and plan for the internal funding and deposit taking requirements of other units of the Bank:

- Liaise with other business units to obtain the best possible view of asset pipelines and forecast liability generation
- Communicate the funding requirements / excess liquidity position and with the Local Head of Liquidity convey capacity on limits
- Ensure adherence to all regulatory requirements and all internal liquidity metrics
- Determine the level of marketable security holdings to facilitate the Bank making payments within the local RTGS system (in relevant positions)
- Raise a flag to senior management on any concerns over the Bank’s capacity to meet projected funding requirements

**Business**
- Meet all funding and deposit taking requirements while maintaining regulatory; stress and prudent liquidity requirements:

- Access the money markets as required; either with other banks directly or through interdealer broker; raising and placing liquidity to ensure liquidity limits are adhered to while maximising economic value to the Bank
- Being proactive in raising and deploying liquidity, including through the management of the local NCD programme
- Proactively establish and maintain good relationships with direct wholesale customers, including central banks Swap funding between currencies to meet liquidity requirements and to minimise funding costs
- Move funding between Treasury Markets desks as required
- Participate in local central bank operations and facilities as required
- Provide oversight to Treasury Services in ensuring adequate intra-day liquidity to facilitate all payments / to meet pay-in obligations with CLS (in relevant centres)
- Liaise with the repo desk in order to manage a stock of eligible collateral for use within the LAB or act as intraday collateral for RTGS
- Preposition eligible securities at the local central bank to be used as backstop liquidity (where available)
- Forecast and advise the CFO and Head, Treasury Markets, Singapore or SCBSL Hub delegate should there be a requirement to purchase securities to meet the statutory, stress, payments or prudent requirements
- Forecast and advise the CFO and Head, Treasury Markets, Singapore or SCBSL Hub delegate, should there be a requirement to raise medium term funding

**Processes**
- Discuss and agree with the Head, Treasury Markets, Singapore or SCBSL Hub delegate, to produce daily yield curves for the Bank’s marginal cost of funding in local and major foreign currencies, fixed and floating, for funds transfer from or to the rest of the Bank:

- Ensure this curve encourages an overall balance of liquidity yet does not unduly disadvantage any business unit
- Provide oversight to ensure that liquidity risk from the commercial balance sheet is being transferred to Treasury Markets as per policy. Ensure that funding costs are accurately reflected, including the impact of stress; statutory holdings and the like
- Manage the relationship with the local key stakeholders.

**Risk Management**
- Operate within Treasury Market’s liquidity and credit limits:

- Provide oversight to Treasury Markets in MCO, Wholesale Borrowing, Stress test, MTF and swapped funds guideline, as detailed in the Treasury Risk limits
- Flag any potential liquidity limit issues to local ALCO and Hub LM team in advance
- Flag any potential credit limit issues to local ALCO and Hub LM team in advance
- Request for temporary and permanent limits to GMR and Credit, where appropriate
- Maintain desired ratios as directed by the Global Head of Liquidity

**Governance**
- Understand and be able to act on the Country Liquidity Contingency Plan:

- Ensure a full understanding of what is expected of Treasury Markets if the plan is activated
- Develop and maintain strong relationships with of the sources of standby and emergency liquidity, including central banks
- Actively monitor for and immediately alert senior management on any evidence that the bank could be about to encounter funding stress
- Were this plan ever to be activated, support the ALCO as the primary in-country agent for raising liquidity, under the direction of the HoTreasury Markets, Singapore, or SCBSL Hub delegate.

**Regulatory & Business Conduct**
- Display exemplary conduct and live by the Group’s Values and Code of Conduct.
- Take personal responsibility for embedding the highest standards of ethics, including regulatory and business conduct, across Standard Chartered Bank. This includes understanding and ensuring compliance with, in letter and spirit, all applicable laws, regulations, guidelines and the Group Code of Conduct.
- Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.

**Key Stakeholders**
- Internal Stakeholders: Other Treasury teams, Risk, Co