Director Liquidity Framework and Planning

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Liquidity Management is a critical function of Treasury at the Firm. Reporting to the Managing Director, Liquidity Forecasting & Strategy, this Director will be focused on enhancing Liquidity and Collateral Planning frameworks and connecting these into the broader Balance Sheet Management Strategy. On a functional level, this role will lead the integration of our various functional and modeling teams into a cohesive framework that can be communicated to the highest levels of the organization.

This includes but is not limited to Bank, Broker Dealer, and Parent funding, collateral optimization, and connections between liquidity and capital and investment planning.

Key Outcomes:

• Development of a comprehensive funding plan across all entities, collateral management and optimization, guidance to the Investment Portfolio for future actions, and supporting capital planning.

• Serve as a key contributor to the communication of the funding across Brokered CDs, Bilateral Repo, Tri Party Repo, and FHLB at the banks in BAU as well as other contingent levers for stressed liquidity purposes.

• Refine and elevate our liquidity forecasting and strategy framework, including remediation of MRA's and development of new liquidity management capabilities.

• Support the growth of the client margin lending business and provide a framework that allows the funding team to scale levers including Commercial Paper and a robust suite of Equity Financing trades ($20B+ across Secured Bank Loans, Term Stock Loans, Equity Tri Party Rep)

• Develop and manage a comprehensive BAU Liquidity Forecast and Strategy and create significant capabilities to prepare for the unexpected and contingent funding or balance sheet needs.

• Define and build strategies on liquidity forecasting able to withstand intense regulatory scrutiny.

• Serve as a thought leader and subject matter expert on our liquidity and funding strategies and execution and effectively communicate strategies and recommendations with regulators and executive leadership.

• Provide recommendations and influence our Investment Strategy, Capital Management and Parent Liquidity, Funding Plan, Collateral Management Strategy, Broker Dealer liquidity strategies.

The Director is expected to be an exceptional senior level communicator, both written and presentation, and be able to convey complex messages to all manners of audience. This role has high impact and visibility playing a critical role in maintaining the financial health and stability of the organization.

Required Experience:

• Minimum of 12 years of financial services experience and 8+ years of liquidity strategy and forecasting in environments of similar scale and complexity.

• Deep technical foundations and experience working across trading, funding/repo desks, liquidity risk and balance sheet modeling.

• Experience building and leading a highly technical team of liquidity and funding analysts.

• Deep expertise with investment strategy related to diverse capital portfolios, capital management collateral management and broker dealer liquidity strategies.

• Thorough understanding of the application and requirements associated with 15c3-3 calculations and impacts to liquidity management and funding

• Experience staying abreast of the evolving regulatory landscape and demonstrating impeccable judgement to prioritize numerous initiatives in flight.

• Exceptional communicator with the ability to convey the robustness of Schwab’s liquidity strategies and able to provide thoughtful and accurate responses to questions and challenges posed by investors and regulators. Able to interact with our highest-level leaders as well as a keen attention to detail and complex knowledge of the impact of our liquidity strategies and programs

• Bachelor’s degree required. Master’s degree preferred.

Preferred Experience:

• Adept at understanding the nuances of Liquidity Management and be able to communicate the strategic actions to very senior level individuals.

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