The posting
Optiver's Group Treasury team is responsible for managing the firm's cash, liquidity, funding, capital and FX exposure globally. The function is undergoing an exciting phase of transformation, with the implementation of Kyriba as our global treasury management system, alongside a broader focus on leveraging AI and automation to enhance efficiency, strengthen data capabilities and optimise treasury processes.
As a Group Treasury Specialist, you'll play a key role in shaping the future of the function, combining hands-on treasury operations with opportunities to drive meaningful change. You'll contribute directly to the implementation of Kyriba, from system configuration and testing through to data validation and process integration. By taking ownership of day-to-day treasury processes, you'll develop a thorough understanding of how they work, using that knowledge to challenge existing ways of working, identify opportunities for automation and build more efficient, scalable solutions. It's an opportunity to make an immediate impact, working alongside an experienced team to transform how the function operates.
What you'll do
The balance between running and building will shift over time, but you should expect to work across most of the following:
- Cash and liquidity management: Monitor global cash positions and liquidity requirements, support short- and long-term cash forecasting, and help optimize the deployment of excess liquidity.
- Treasury system: Help finish the Kyriba implementation and then become one of the people who makes it useful and insightful.
- Data, automation and AI: Find the manual processes worth removing and remove them. We are serious about getting agents and AI tooling into how the function actually works, having access to a suit of data analytics & AI tools at your disposal.
- Investments and FX: Support the management of our short-term investment portfolio across money market funds, government securities and deposits. Monitor and support the execution of our FX hedging program, including non-deliverable forwards for restricted currencies, and analyze associated hedging costs.
- Capital and liquidity analysis: Develop models to assess the firm's liquidity requirements, trading capital consumption and the financial impact of stress scenarios, working closely with stakeholders to support informed decision-making.
- Controls and counterparty monitoring: Maintain treasury controls, monitor counterparty and clearing exposures, and support periodic reporting to ensure effective risk oversight.
- Projects: Contribute to strategic treasury initiatives, including evaluating funding alternatives, establishing new entities, managing bank relationships, and further developing the global treasury operating model.
Within a year or so, the expectation is that you'll become the firm's go-to expert in at least one of these areas. We'll support you in developing the necessary domain knowledge, with the opportunity to take ownership and drive meaningful improvements.
Who you are
- Data-driven mindset: You have strong analytical skills and enjoy working with data to identify trends, solve problems and generate meaningful insights.
- You bring evidence of building things: Something you wrote that took work out of a process, replaced a spreadsheet or answered a question that could not be answered before. The scale does not matter much; we care that you finish things.
- Practical experience with AI tooling: More than using a chatbot occasionally. Ideally, you have experimented with building solutions using large language models (LLMs) and understand their capabilities and limitations.
- Working knowledge of Python and SQL: Meaning you can build a data pipeline without help and put it somewhere other people can rely on. Git, scheduling and structured outputs should not be new to you.
- Enough finance knowledge to engage with the substance: You should be able to read a balance sheet and understand why liquidity and capital constrain a trading business. We can fill in treasury details.
- A real interest in financial markets: You should be following rates, funding and credit markets because you find them interesting, and be able to tell us what you make of what is going on.
- Foundational knowledge of fixed income, credit and FX: You have some familiarity with fixed income products, credit markets and FX instruments, with an interest in developing your knowledge further.
- Confidence to challenge existing approaches: You are naturally curious, comfortable asking questions and willing to challenge established ways of working when you see opportunities for improvement.
- Care with numbers, under time pressure: Hedge execution windows, funding decisions and morning briefings do not wait. We expect you to check your numbers, say when something is interpolated or indicative rather than quoted.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills: You communicate clearly in English, can explain your findings to different audiences and enjoy working with colleagues across Finance, Risk, Technology and the trading business globally.
Who we are
At Optiver, our mission is to constantly improve the market by injecting liquidity, providing accurate pricing, increasing transparency and acting as a stabilizing force no matter the market conditions. With a focus on continuous improvement, we participate in the safeguarding of healthy and efficient markets for everyone who participates. As one of the largest market making institutions, we are a trusted partner of 70+ exchanges across the globe.
What you'll get
You’ll join a culture of collaboration and excellence, where you’ll be surrounded by curious thinkers and creative problem solvers. Motivated by a passion for continuous improvement, you’ll thrive in a supportive, high-performing environment alongside talented colleagues, working collectively to tackle the toughest problems in the financial markets.
In addition, you’ll receive:
- A performance-based bonus structure unmatched anywhere in the industry. We combine our profits across desks, teams and offices into a global profit pool.
- The opportunity to work alongside best-in-class professionals from over 50 different countries.
- 25 paid vacation days in your first year, increasing to 30 from your second year onwards.
- Training opportunities, discounts on health insurance, and fully paid first-class commuting expenses.
- Extensive office perks, including breakfast, lunch and dinner, world-class barista coffee, in-house physio and chair massages, organized sports and leisure activities, and Friday afternoon drinks.
- Training and continuous learning opportunities, including access to conferences and tech events.
- Competitive relocation packages and visa sponsorship where necessary for expats.
How to apply
Apply directly via the form below, in your cover letter tell us about something you have built and why it mattered, a CV on its own tells us very little about the part we care about the most.
If you have any questions feel free to contact our Recruitment team via our recruitment inquiry form.
Please note:
- We do not require any assistance from third-parties including agencies in the recruitment of this role
- We cannot accept applications via email
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