Rabobank Australia hiring Head of Balance Sheet Management in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia | LinkedIn (2024)

Rabobank is the world’s leading specialist in food and agribusiness banking. One of our key strengths lies in our people who have a deep understanding of agriculture and are committed to adding long-term value for clients. Our commitment to our employees and clients is at the heart of everything we do.

Our culture is focused on growing each other. We strive to create an open, balanced, and flexible workplace where people feel that they belong, can be open and honest and are supported.

Rabobank Australia has recently been awarded 18th place in LinkedIn’s Top Companies 2023: The 25 best workplaces to grow your career in Australia. We are extremely proud of this achievement, as it reflects the investment in our people, their growth and development.

About The RoleThe Head of Balance Sheet Management AU/NZ is part of the Balance Sheet Management (BSM) department of Treasury. BSM’s goal is to provide analytics and steer Rabobank’s balance sheet from an ALM perspective in line with the bank’s risk-appetite to protect Rabobank’s interests, reputation, liquidity position, rating, and profitability.

The Balance Sheet Management (BSM) team’s role is to define strategies for the different ALM risks in scope and to actively steer those via close coordination with the Execution teams and the various business lines.

The key activities of the role include:

• Managing the Australia & New Zealand balance sheet risks, which includes funding and liquidity risk, interest rate risk and foreign exchange risk in the banking books.
• Optimizing balance sheet positions within the prudential boundaries of its role.
• Steering the future balance sheet composition from an ALM perspective.
• and as such, to support and enable the strategic goals of the Group and the region.

The Head of Balance Sheet Management mainly leads, carries out and oversees the below BSM activities for AU & NZ, and provides assistance to the Head of Treasury, Region Australia, New Zealand to carry out activities and projects within the regional locations.

• Monitor, forecast and communicate measures of Asset & Liability Management (ALM), in particular liquidity and interest rate risk in AU/NZ
• Assume 1st line ownership of behavioural analysis tools and strategic decision making, including responsibility for implementation of the Funds Transfer Pricing (FTP) framework to RANZ, and timely review and validation of the RANZ behavioural balance sheet.
• Lead the balance sheet steering effort and provide active guidance on such things as the Funding Plan, Liquid Assets Buffer, and IRR BB, including embedding best ALM practices in the RANZ business.
• Monitor regulatory developments affecting BSM, and support interaction with local regulators.
• Develop local BSM strategy and build out the global BSM Target Operating Model, in coordination with Head of Treasury and BSM Global Heads, and in a way relevant to the RANZ regulatory and business environment.
• Provide effective internal communication, interaction, and influence, including leadership and active participation in the ALCO.
• Provide insight on BSM matters to local Region Australia, New Zealand Boards and Executive Teams, and other senior stakeholders.
• Manage and coach a team of two (2) senior staff to deliver the BSM remit, in a high performing way, and realise personal development plans.

To be successful in this role you will have:

• University degree in relevant discipline, with working experience on ALM content (desirable)
• Strong and proven experience in treasury, financial markets, finance, or risk management related activities.
• Experience leading and managing teams (desirable)
• Affinity with and knowledge of risk management and ALM practices
• Understanding of general banking activities and products (retail, wholesale, financial markets) and regulations
• Knowledge of modelling techniques used in ALM (desirable)
• Networking and development of relationships with members of the regional and global Treasury community.
• Experience working with spreadsheets and good understanding of system architecture from an ALM perspective.

Our Values, Vision, and MissionRabobank Australia fully embraces inclusion and belonging and delivers positive experiences for our people and clients. Our great working conditions, broad learning and development programmes and the opportunity to work together for the greater good are reasons why our employees love working here. We are committed to our values; we are client focussed, action oriented, purposeful, and courageous in our work. We are professional and considerate and bring out the best in each other and are committed to keep learning. We have an open culture, where you can be yourself and be valued for who you are.

What we're proud to offer you:

• Rabo@Anywhere is our hybrid way of working at Rabobank and for Australia, that means we have a blend of time working between the office and home.
• Wellbeing leave. These 2 extra leave days support greater work/life balance and is just another way we are helping our employees to lead happier, healthier, and more fulfilling lives.
• Education Assistance Program. Rabobank values the development of its people and has a great Education Assistance Program to assist with professional development.
• Parental Leave that supports you and your family while giving you the freedom and flexibility to enjoy this special time (Primary carer up-to 14 weeks paid leave)
• Bonus and Additional Leave. We realise sometimes 4 weeks Annual Leave isn't enough! At Rabobank we provide an incentive for eligible employees to receive 1 extra week Annual Leave and an option to purchase another 2 weeks Annual Leave.
• Extra Insurance. Rabobank recognises that employees need to protect their financial wellbeing, in the event of serious illness, injury, or even death. Rabobank provides eligible permanent employees with employer-funded Death, TPD and Income Protection Insurance.
• Rabo Workplace Giving program. As part of Rabobank's global Corporate Social Responsibility, Workplace Giving aims to encourage employees to contribute to our community. Rabo Workplace Giving program matches employee donations to selected Social Partners.

Rabobank is committed to a culture where diversity and inclusion is valued, respected, and encouraged. We welcome applicants from diverse cultures, faith, and sexual orientation.If you’d like to discuss how we can make our opportunities more accessible to you, please let a member of the Talent Acquisition team know.Rabobank is not accepting submissions from recruitment agencies for this role.You must hold valid work rights to be considered for this role.