Treasury Model Strategy Lead

As the Treasury Model Strategy Lead, you’ll take ownership of shaping and overseeing the bank’s Treasury modelling strategy, ensuring compliance with model risk management standards and regulatory requirements such as new PRA guidelines, SS1/23. You’ll play a key role in developing and enhancing Asset and Liability Management (ALM) models, supporting model remediation, and partnering with Finance to ensure alignment across Treasury and financial reporting processes.

You’ll lead governance forums, driving strategic discussions and securing alignment across Treasury teams, while providing clear direction on model development and regulatory compliance. This is a high-impact role where your ability to combine technical expertise with strong leadership and stakeholder engagement will be critical to delivering robust, compliant models and supporting the bank’s long-term strategic objectives.

To be considered for this role you will have a strong foundation in risk management, treasury, or asset-liability management (ALM). Experience in Model Risk is highly valued, but individuals with broad Treasury or ALM expertise will also be considered. A governance and controls mindset is essential to ensure compliance and effective oversight across processes. A relevant finance qualification or professional certification (such as ACA, ACCA, CFA, or FRM) is desirable.

You may be assessed on key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking and digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills.

Purpose of the role

To model, measure and manage the bank’s financial balance sheet to report and optimise its risk profile and profitability by analysing the bank's assets and liabilities and developing strategies to manage interest rate risk on the banking book and other ALM risks.  

Accountabilities

• Identification, modelling and measurement of the bank’s interest rate risk including the reporting of risks internally and externally.
• Development and implementation of strategies to manage the bank's interest rate risk in the banking book, including management of the bank's exposure to changes in interest rates and development of hedging strategies.
• Management of the bank's banking book balance sheet to optimize the allocation of assets and liabilities, and to ensure that the bank's liquidity, interest rate, and foreign exchange risks are appropriately managed within internal and external tolerance.
• Management of the bank's structural interest rate risk capital position to ensure compliance with regulatory requirements and to support the bank's growth and profitability objectives.
• Development and implementation of financial models to analyse the bank's balance sheet and to support decision-making processes related to asset and liability management.
• Support the development and pricing of customer products to align to the bank’s risk appetite and strategy in relation to IRRBB.
• Measurement of the capital requirements in relation to the interest rate and credit spread risk on the banking book.

Vice President Expectations

• To contribute or set strategy, drive requirements and make recommendations for change. Plan resources, budgets, and policies; manage and maintain policies/ processes; deliver continuous improvements and escalate breaches of policies/procedures..
• If managing a team, they define jobs and responsibilities, planning for the department’s future needs and operations, counselling employees on performance and contributing to employee pay decisions/changes. They may also lead a number of specialists to influence the operations of a department, in alignment with strategic as well as tactical priorities, while balancing short and long term goals and ensuring that budgets and schedules meet corporate requirements..
• If the position has leadership responsibilities, People Leaders are expected to demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard. The four LEAD behaviours are: L – Listen and be authentic, E – Energise and inspire, A – Align across the enterprise, D – Develop others..
• OR for an individual contributor, they will be a subject matter expert within own discipline and will guide technical direction. They will lead collaborative, multi-year assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will train, guide and coach less experienced specialists and provide information affecting long term profits, organisational risks and strategic decisions..
• Advise key stakeholders, including functional leadership teams and senior management on functional and cross functional areas of impact and alignment.
• Manage and mitigate risks through assessment, in support of the control and governance agenda.
• Demonstrate leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work your team does.
• Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of the organisation functions to contribute to achieving the goals of the business.
• Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategies.
• Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought comparing and selecting complex alternatives. In-depth analysis with interpretative thinking will be required to define problems and develop innovative solutions.
• Adopt and include the outcomes of extensive research in problem solving processes.
• Seek out, build and maintain trusting relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders in order to accomplish key business objectives, using influencing and negotiating skills to achieve outcomes.

All colleagues will be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship – our moral compass, helping us do what we believe is right. They will also be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Mindset – to Empower, Challenge and Drive – the operating manual for how we behave.