Director- Liquidity Risk

A leading global financial institution is seeking a Director of Liquidity Risk Management to join its London-based team. This is an exceptional opportunity for you to play a pivotal role in safeguarding the organisation's liquidity position and ensuring robust risk management practices across both broker/dealer entities and branch operations.

What you'll do:

As Director of Liquidity Risk Management, you will be entrusted with significant responsibility for supporting the Head of Liquidity Risk across both broker/dealer entities and branch operations. Your day-to-day activities will involve close collaboration with cross-functional teams to ensure that all new business initiatives are thoroughly assessed from a liquidity risk perspective. You will provide expert challenge to first line functions while maintaining rigorous oversight of key risk metrics. Your ability to deliver high-quality management information will directly inform strategic decision-making at senior levels. In addition to overseeing regulatory compliance on an ongoing basis-including monitoring internal funding metrics-you will play an integral role in reviewing policy documents, participating in annual contingency planning exercises, reviewing early warning indicators, stress-testing models, gap analysis for branch operations, and engaging constructively with both internal stakeholders and external regulators or auditors. Success in this role requires not only technical proficiency but also excellent interpersonal skills to foster collaborative relationships across global teams.

• Work collaboratively with Treasury, Front Office, and support functions to identify, highlight, and address key liquidity risk issues during the trade approval process for new business activities and products.
• Provide thorough review and constructive challenge to first line functions as part of the second line control responsibilities, ensuring adherence to established risk frameworks.
• Ensure that comprehensive limits and risk frameworks are maintained in line with the organisation's overall appetite, monitoring positions within these limits and escalating breaches appropriately.
• Deliver accurate management information that enables informed business decisions by senior leadership.
• Maintain oversight over the quality of risk data in reports produced by the reporting team, ensuring accuracy and reliability at all times.
• Engage proactively with relevant compliance and control processes such as Operational Risk and Internal Audit initiatives to ensure holistic risk coverage.
• Act as a stakeholder in key risk projects, ensuring that business needs are reflected in project outcomes and functional enhancements.
• Stay abreast of all local and overseas regulatory liquidity requirements, assisting with ongoing compliance through active engagement with other areas of the bank.
• Monitor internal and external funding and liquidity metrics for broker/dealer entities to ensure they remain within appetite; explain movements clearly and escalate breaches promptly.
• Review assumptions applied in liquidity metric calculations (such as MCO, LCR, NSFR, ALMM), regulatory updates, policies owned by first line functions (including ILAAP, Regulatory Reporting Policy), participate in annual contingency funding plan tests, review triggers for early warning indicators (EWI), interest rate metrics in the banking book (IRRBB), stress-testing models, gap metrics for branch operations, and interact with regulators or auditors as required.

What you bring:

To excel as Director of Liquidity Risk Management you will bring substantial hands-on experience navigating complex liquidity challenges within large-scale financial institutions. Your expertise spans both technical aspects-such as developing robust stress testing models-and practical application through policy review or regulatory interpretation. You possess a nuanced understanding of capital markets products alongside deep familiarity with evolving regulatory landscapes affecting liquidity management. Your proven ability to collaborate effectively across departments ensures that you can build consensus around best practice approaches while maintaining rigorous oversight over critical data flows. With strong analytical acumen complemented by excellent communication skills-both written and verbal-you are adept at translating complex findings into actionable insights for senior stakeholders. Your educational background underpins your technical proficiency while your management experience demonstrates your capacity to lead teams through periods of change or heightened scrutiny.

• Extensive experience-typically 10 years or more-in liquidity risk management within financial services environments.
• Proven track record managing liquidity risks specifically for broker/dealer entities as well as broader branch operations.
• Deep understanding of regulatory metrics (such as LCR, NSFR) including calculation methods and underlying assumptions relevant to both local UK/EU regulations and international standards.
• Demonstrated ability to develop, review, maintain, and enhance internal stress testing models tailored for complex financial institutions.
• Comprehensive knowledge of capital markets instruments and products relevant to liquidity management.
• Experience interpreting regulatory updates (e.g., PRA consultation papers) and providing guidance on their application within treasury or finance functions.
• Strong background reviewing first line-owned policies such as ILAAPs or Contingency Funding Plans; ability to challenge assumptions constructively.
• Familiarity with interest rate in the banking book (IRRBB) regulation-especially as it applies to broker dealer metrics-and related policy documentation.
• Management experience leading teams or projects within a matrixed financial services environment.
• A minimum 2:1 degree or equivalent qualification in a numerical or science-based subject area.

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