Assistant Vice President, Bank Funding Trader

**Your background**
- Undergraduate degree with quantitative focus / prefer finance, accounting or engineering major.
- Strong understanding of markets, financial statements, liquidity and risk is preferred.
- Relevant experience in Money Market /FX activities, Balance Sheet and Liquidity Risk management would be an added advantage
- Strong Excel skills are a must
- Word and PowerPoint proficiency
- Programming skills / process knowledge would be beneficial
- Strong ability to communicate effectively across a broad range of constituents including seasoned teammates, upper management and disparate business partners.
- Skilled at building and maintaining strong relationships across the enterprise. Ability to deliver a difficult message while maintaining close working relationships.
- Communicate clearly and concisely (in English), verbally and in writing, at all levels within the organization
- Possess Pasaran Kewangan Malaysia Certification (PKMC)
**Beneficial skills / traits**:

- Creative problem solving skills and orientation
- A genuine interest in financial markets / a drive to “win”
**What you can expect**

Global Funding is one of the key areas within Corporate Treasury. Global Funding employees interact daily with internal and external constituents including front line units (FLUs), other Corporate Treasury functions such as Balance Sheet Management and Treasury Finance / Enterprise Capital Management (BSMTF/ECM), Corporate Treasury Finance, and Global Liquidity Management (GLM), internal control partners, regulators, market participants and investors. The mission of Global Funding is to ensure Bank of America Corporation and all its subsidiaries are sufficiently funded at all times. The team utilises its global presence to provide efficient funding strategies across the enterprise in the most cost effective manner, while managing the risks associated with those strategies.

The Global Funding team manages enterprise liquidity and ensures that funding is maintained at levels sufficient to operate in normal and stressed scenarios. We are tasked to forecast the sources and uses of funds across a variety of entities and currencies, taking into account business input, the Corporation’s risk appetite and projected market conditions in order to manage effectively the Corporation’s key cash and liquidity positions. Implementation of our funding and hedging strategies necessitates flawlessly executing transactions with internal and external counterparties in accordance with liquidity and capital constraints, internal guidelines, legal limitations and regulatory directives.

A successful career in Corporate Treasury requires you to think critically about the many challenges facing our company and industry with an emphasis on attention to detail, teamwork and strong communication skills. The Treasury group provides an opportunity to gain broad knowledge about the company and its many businesses as well as the global markets in which we transact. Your day to day experience will be varied and challenging, and will allow you to extend your skills within various disciplines, such as market analysis, short-term money market execution and real-time liquidity risk management.

**What you will do**:

- Funding execution
- As per Global Funding policies and procedures, provide daily rate setting and funding trade execution for designated legal entities in coordination with global partners
- Provide money market, foreign exchange, securities and derivative trade execution for Treasury needs
- Provide liquidity risk counsel and pricing consultation to lines of business (LOBs)
- Funding forecasting
- In concert with local and enterprise partners, analyze business plans and forward balance sheet for designated legal entities and develop an appropriate funding plan
- Work with business partners to develop an understanding of future business flows and risks
- Work closely with international peers to coordinate flows and promote efficiency
- Investigate and correct forecast misses in order to minimize future variance
- Risk management
- Manage risks within established metrics consistent with the company’s risk appetite
- Hedge interest rate and foreign exchange exposures where necessary per policy
Manage excess liquidity to meet statutory and operational requirements and achieve maximum efficiency
- Balance sheet governance
- Monitor changes in assets and liabilities and understand causation
- Work with the FTP group to insure that practices and methodologies drive desired behavior
- Ensure that a robust control environment is maintained through compliance with all laws, regulation, policies, procedures and directives.
- Other
- Participate in technology enhancement projects
- Perform extensive ad-hoc financial analysis related to funding risks and opportunities
- Respond to spontaneous information/reporting requests both internally and from regulators
- Compliance with relevant local and applicable international re