As a Senior Manager, Treasury & Capital Markets, you will work as a strategic partner within the Treasury team and interact directly with banking partners, lenders, investors, fintechs, capital markets counterparties, and key functional leaders within Wealthsimple to support Treasury initiatives and broader product launches. As a trusted advisor, you will provide advice and collaborate with leaders in product, operations, trading, finance, legal, regulatory & compliance to find creative solutions to complex problems. You are adaptable, flexible, and thrive in a collaborative, innovative environment where two days rarely look the same.
In this role, you will have the opportunity to:
Lead and manage credit card financing as a primary stakeholder to scale Wealthsimple’s credit card program
Spearhead and execute capital markets, credit cards, and other asset backed financing initiatives from inception as a deeply integral partner to Wealthsimple product launches
Drive negotiations with banking partners, lenders, fintechs, and capital markets counterparties in order to expand and stand up new asset backed financing capabilities.
Apply a growth mindset, experiment with new ideas, explore new approaches to challenge the status quo to continuously improve
Work in a fast-paced organization and growing Treasury team to build best-in-class capital markets capabilities and enable a product offering that delights Wealthsimple clients
Collaborate closely with Capital and Liquidity Management and Cash and Collateral Management functions to create and optimize credit card funding plan and operationalize financing capabilities
Foster and deepen banking partner, lending, counterparty, vendor relationships and identify new and innovative partnership opportunities
Oversee Wealthsimple's Treasury investment portfolio to propose and execute on investment and risk management strategies, including managing corporate foreign currency exposure and interest rate exposure
Propose hedging strategies and work with the controller team to ensure proper accounting treatment
Manage and enhance Investment and Foreign Currency Risk Management policies
Build and enhance automated workflows and generate complex Treasury analyses using AI models
We're looking for someone who has:
Strong asset backed securitization experience from a financing perspective and experience managing a securitization program, credit card specific knowledge is a strong asset
Track record of successfully executing new asset backed financing transaction from front to back
Deep experience standing up a financial product or program, leading a large scale project from start to finish, experience standing up new credit card products a strong asset
Exceptional communication and relationship management skills
8+ years of Treasury and Capital Markets experience with direct external counterparties negotiation and engagement.
Prior experience in negotiating capital markets agreements (ISDA, repo agreements) and transactions (FX and interest rate hedging)
Comprehensive understanding of foreign currency and interest rate risk management, Treasury investment portfolio management
Ability to distill complex concepts a non-Treasury audience and collaborate effectively with diverse teams
Strong critical thinking skills with superior attention to detail
A passion for Wealthsimple, fintechs, technology, and AI
An ability to thrive in a fast-paced and highly ambiguous settings, building products and processes from the ground up with limited guidance
Proven creative problem solver, who is resourceful in overcoming obstacles and can push the boundaries of conventional thinking