Alphabet's Treasury team is on a mission to optimize the return on Alphabet's financial assets. As a member of this team, you're always looking for innovative ways to help Alphabet invest for the future while limiting volatility and material surprises. In addition to risk busting and asset management, you work collaboratively to administer business insurance programs and stock programs, and provide financial analysis support to our internal teams. You make creative yet calculated decisions that are backed by both experience and your extensive knowledge of the economy and financial industry.
Watch: Career Advice Reporting to the Assistant Treasurer, you will strategically lead and develop risk management practices to protect and ensure the resiliency of Alphabet’s balance sheet and financial assets from risks arising from global financial markets. Functions and responsibilities include assessment of foreign currency markets, credit research and counterparty risk management, fixed income investment strategies, interest rate and other market risk strategies, operational risk management and scenario planning. You will build and manage a team across these disciplines to achieve theTreasury’s risk management objectives. You will also provide intelligent insight to senior management and recommend appropriate adjustments to the company’s risk profile. With your leadership, you will help inspire a culture of risk management mentality and practice across the treasury organization.
The name Google came from "googol," a mathematical term for the number 1 followed by 100 zeros. And nobody at Google loves big numbers like the Finance team when providing in depth analysis on all manner of strategic decisions across Google products. From developing forward-thinking analysis to generating management reports to scaling our automated financial processes, the Finance organization is an important partner and advisor to the business.
Responsibilities
Develop and implement a holistic risk management framework for all known treasury risks, identify emerging risks and potential contagion, define risk appetite and limits, develop tools/metrics to monitor risk, perform scenario planning and stress testing.
Develop and publish macroeconomic and currency views supported by quantitative and qualitative analysis and work with the FX hedging team to ensure currency hedging strategies are aligned with views.
Design and maintain optimal cash portfolio investment strategies, interest rate and other market risk strategies that are consistent with the company’s liquidity, counterparty and market risk objectives.
Establish a credit research team to evaluate and monitor counterparty risk across all treasury activities and third-party vendors supporting our businesses.
Aggregate risks, develop contingency plans and playbooks, and recommend to senior management adjustments to our risk-taking posture/profile accordingly.
Qualifications
Minimum qualifications:
MBA or master's degree in a finance, macroeconomics, mathematics, engineering, statistics or similar quantitative field, or equivalent practical experience.
15 years at a financial institution or investment firm with experience in financial risk management practices and evaluating various market and economic risks.
Preferred qualifications:
PhD in macroeconomics, finance or similar related field.
Experience working autonomously and prioritizing multiple competing priorities.
Deep expertise in one or more areas of market risk (e.g., currency, interest rates, fixed income, credit), strong familiarity across other market and operational risks, and familiarity with fixed income asset classes and investment portfolio theory and design.
Strategic thinker, rooted in discipline and backed with data and analysis.
Strong leadership skills and proven ability to effectively manage people.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills and ability to influence others.
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