Build your career in liquidity risk management with a global investment banking and financial services leader in Tokyo. This position provides independent second-line risk oversight of global treasury and funding activities, with responsibility for liquidity frameworks, stress testing, risk limits, and capital and liquidity adequacy.

Working in an international environment, you will collaborate with teams across New York, London, Hong Kong, Singapore, and India while gaining direct exposure to senior management. This is a high-visibility opportunity for a financial services professional looking to deepen their expertise in treasury risk, liquidity risk, and enterprise risk management while influencing global risk governance and strategy.
Key Responsibilities

• Execute independent second-line review, oversight, and effective challenge of front-office treasury and funding activities.
• Analyse risk profiles, liquidity stress-testing results, and risk-limit adherence, reporting key findings directly to senior executive committees.
• Review and validate liquidity stress-testing models, risk frameworks, methodologies, and underlying market assumptions.
• Evaluate and adjust risk limits to maintain alignment with the organisation's global Risk Appetite standards.
• Assess funding availability and business strategy proposals to determine capital and liquidity adequacy.
• Partner with international teams across New York, London, Hong Kong, Singapore, and India on global risk management initiatives and regulatory priorities.

Required Skills and Qualifications Experience:

• Minimum 3 years of financial services experience, preferably within risk management or treasury.
• Strong technical knowledge of liquidity risk, market risk management, treasury, finance, accounting, or economics.
• Understanding of regulatory expectations relating to liquidity controls and financial services industry best practices.
• Bachelor's degree.

Soft Skills:

• Strong analytical and critical-thinking capabilities with rigorous attention to detail.
• Proactive, self-motivated approach with high professional and ethical standards.
• Ability to provide constructive and independent challenge while working collaboratively with stakeholders.
• Strong cross-functional stakeholder management skills within an international environment.

Language Requirements:

• Japanese: Fluent.
• English: Business level, with strong professional written and verbal communication skills. English is used daily in this role.

Preferred Skills & Qualifications

• Experience in second-line risk management, treasury oversight, or liquidity risk governance within banking or financial services.
• Knowledge of liquidity stress testing, risk appetite frameworks, funding risk, and risk-limit management.
• Experience collaborating with senior management and stakeholders across international financial centres.
• Familiarity with regulatory requirements and industry best practices relating to liquidity and treasury risk management.

About the Company
Our client is a global investment banking and financial services leader with operations across major international markets. The organisation places robust enterprise risk governance at the centre of its approach to managing financial, treasury, and liquidity risks.

Joining the Tokyo team provides the opportunity to work within an international financial institution while collaborating with colleagues across key global hubs and contributing to risk initiatives with organisation-wide impact.
Why You'll Love Working Here

• 40% work-from-home flexibility combined with a flexible working schedule.
• Use English on a daily basis while collaborating with international teams across major global financial centres.
• Gain direct exposure to senior management and executive committees through high-visibility risk reporting and oversight.
• Play a central role in independent second-line treasury and liquidity risk governance.
• Build expertise across multiple risk disciplines while contributing to the organisation's global capital and liquidity strategy.
• Take ownership of a strategically important risk function with significant opportunities for career progression and professional development.

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