Sr Director, Head of Treasury - Asia Pacific
Sr Director, Head of Treasury - Asia Pacific
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Job Description
Visas Global Treasury Group is seeking a seasoned finance professional to lead and oversee all treasury activities in the Asia Pacific region. This role is critical in managing regional settlement operations expanding domestic settlement services onboarding clients providing client advisory services and supporting global treasury initiatives. The individual will also support ad hoc global treasury initiatives as needed and provide management oversight for FX trading operations during Asia hours as needed. This position reports to the VP Global Head of Settlement and Regional Centers of Excellence (COEs) with a dottedline reporting relationship to the AsiaPacific Chief Financial Officer.
Key Responsibilities:
Settlement Operations Management
- Lead crossfunctional projects with Client Services Enterprise Risk Management Legal Country Management Government Engagement Rules Management and Network Processing to develop establish and enhance domestic settlement services to meet client and regulatory demands for faster and realtime settlement.
- Collaborate with Credit Settlement Risk to design and implement bespoke settlement solutions aimed at mitigating settlement risk and reducing collateral requirements.
- Enhance the teams ability to provide consultancy and promote best practices to clients on international and domestic settlement setup virtual accounts multicurrency settlement etc.
- Oversee client onboarding activities ensuring that all processes are completed within the SLAs agreed upon with the Client Services team.
- Develop implement and enforce best practices controls and risk mitigation strategies to minimize operational and liquidity risks for settlement operations.
- Proactively monitor and address operational issues lead incident response efforts and implement practical solutions for domestic settlement service issues.
- Ensure treasury procedures and processes are documented reviewed and updated annually.
- Design establish and maintain business continuity plans for domestic settlement services across all AP markets.
- Manage regional audit and compliance requests and issues.
Regulatory and Central Bank Engagement
- Navigate complex legal and regulatory issues related to domestic and international settlement. Serve as Visas primary point of contact for engagements with Central Banks and regulators concerning Visa settlement processes and settlementrelated regulatory matters.
- Collaborate with Government Engagement to proactively address and resolve any settlementrelated regulatory concerns and inquiries.
FX Operations and Other Treasury Support
- Review cash flow exposure analysis for AP.
- Provide management oversight for FX trading during Asia hours ensuring smooth execution of FX trades and settlement by the team as needed.
- Assist in resolving FX operations issues as needed ensuring the team effectively manages and executes FX trades and settlements.
- Provide regional support for Settlement and Corporate bank account administration including account opening closing and fulfilling KYC requests.
- Partner with regional business and product stakeholders to serve as a Treasury Settlement and FX subject matter expert and advisor. Provide input and approve risk assessments for new products and services on behalf of AP Treasury.
- Lead and participate in strategic initiatives to enhance global treasury processes and systems.
Team Leadership and Bank Relationship Management
- Represent Treasury as a member of the AsiaPacific Finance Leadership Team
- Manage relationships with senior executives of Settlement Agents and Corporate/FX banks to support Treasury Settlement and FX services.
- Lead mentor and oversee a highperforming team of five promoting a culture of operational excellence collaboration and continuous improvement.
- Foster professional growth and career development for team members.
- Act as a handson leader providing support and backup to the team as needed.
This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your Hiring Manager.
Qualifications :
What you will need:
- Degree in finance economics or related disciplines.
- 15 years of professional experience in corporate treasury FX or banking.
- Deep knowledge of electronic payment systems and related business operations is highly preferred.
- Experience with SWIFT realtime payments treasury management systems and FX trading platforms.
- Demonstrated ability to drive efficiency and support evolving business requirements.
- Strong management skills with a proven track record of building and leading highperforming treasury operations teams including talent recruitment retention and development.
- Solid project management skills.
- Superior analytical and problemsolving abilities with demonstrated intellectual and analytical rigor.
- Selfstarter resourceful and capable of working independently and as part of a team.
- Excellent communication skills both written and verbal.
- Experience engaging and influencing regulators central banks and financial institutions as well as familiarity with CBDCs digital payments and evolving financial regulations are a plus.
Additional Information :
Visa is an EEO Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex national origin sexual orientation gender identity disability or protected veteran status. Visa will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with EEOC guidelines and applicable local law.
Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Fulltime
Employment Type
Full-time
