Treasury Middle Office Analyst at BitPesa

Job Summary

• The candidate will be responsible for reporting on treasury positions, results, instruments, products, activities, systems and procedures.
• You will support the Treasury back office and Trading team. The Treasury operations cover multiple time zones and locations such as Tanzania, Uganda, Kenya, Senegal, Ghana, Nigeria, along with counterparties in Europe and the US.

Key Responsibilities
Risk, Governance and Control:

• Perform daily open position reconciliation and ensure that Treasury performance is tracked and reported accurately.
• Assist in the preparation of float, exposure and liquidity reports.
• Assist in processing counterparty limit requests on behalf of front office.
• Ensure Compliance with Standard Operations Procedure(SOP), Treasury policies and audit requirements.
• Keep abreast of local market developments which could have direct bearing on change to Procedures/reporting requirements.
• Ensure critical controls relating to market risk management is being observed and assist in raising appropriate awareness in Treasury Front and Back-Office.

Systems maintenance and development:

• Participate in any systems implementation in the Middle-Office
• Participate in training initiatives to ensure Front-Office/Middle-Office/Back-Office staff receive adequate training on Treasury risk systems.
• Assist in development/design of reports to provide appropriate information which identifies the risk
• Positions and profit and loss profile of Treasury.

Administrative support:

• Maintenance of records/documentation of Treasury Middle Office reports.
• Responsible for importing reports from Treasury Express.
• Assist in providing required documentation for audits.
• Assist in providing necessary documentation for implementation of new systems.
• Ensure maintenance of the filing system of Treasury and Market Risk Policies and procedures.

Requirements

• A driven and self motivated candidate with 2-4 years of experience in finance, banking, payments, or treasury.
• Ability to work under pressure in a fast-paced environment.
• Sound knowledge of Market risk methodologies & tools
• Should be particularly good at handling treasury reports and all the relevant data and information
• Should have excellent communication skills and should be able to convey all the important data received from the front end to the back end.
• Basic understanding of the principles of prudent liquidity management and reporting
• Basic understanding of procedures for the whole product cycle from deal initiation to settlement.
• Basic knowledge and best practices of Treasury products, risk systems and operational processes;
• Experience in creating and running risk models
• Should be able to plan and prioritize work according to the requirement
• Should be an excellent team player

Benefits
Competitive. Monthly salary to be determined based on experience.