Job Description
Your Opportunity
Managing Director, Liquidity Management
The Managing Director, Liquidity Management sets the firm’s liquidity strategy and oversight across all legal entities, ensuring a resilient, well-governed liquidity position supporting growth and protecting financial strength. This executive leads the firm’s regulatory liquidity framework, including LCR, NSFR, and FR 2052a, and serves as a senior advisor to Finance, Risk, business leadership, and regulators on liquidity risk, strategic tradeoffs, and enterprise implications.
Key Outcomes:
- Lead enterprise liquidity strategy and planning across all legal entities, ensuring sufficient liquidity in business-as-usual and stressed conditions.
- Own the firm’s regulatory liquidity framework, including LCR, NSFR, and FR 2052a, with strong governance, controls, and execution.
- Advise the CFO, CRO, and senior leaders on liquidity implications of strategy, forecasts, growth initiatives, and product decisions.
- Represent the first line with prudential regulators and lead support for supervisory reviews and examinations.
- Drive cross-functional alignment across Finance, Risk, Audit, business leadership, and Technology to strengthen liquidity capabilities, infrastructure, and decision-making.
- Anticipate emerging risks and regulatory shifts to protect the firm’s financial flexibility, reputation, and capacity for responsible growth.
What you have
Required Experience:
- Extensive leadership experience in treasury, liquidity, balance sheet management, or a related financial risk discipline within a large, complex financial institution.
- Deep expertise in regulatory liquidity frameworks, including LCR, NSFR, and prudential supervisory expectations.
- Proven experience leading regulatory reporting, governance, and control disciplines in a highly regulated environment.
- Demonstrated ability to influence senior executives and cross-functional stakeholders on complex financial, strategic, and risk matters.
- Strong command of liquidity and funding implications across products, business activities, and enterprise strategy.
- Experience engaging directly with regulators and leading responses to examinations and supervisory reviews.
- Sound judgment in dynamic market and regulatory conditions, with the ability to lead through ambiguity and change.
- Track record of building trusted partnerships across Finance, Risk, business leadership, and enabling functions.
Preferred Experience:
- Experience leading liquidity strategy in a bank or bank-affiliated institution subject to Federal Reserve oversight.
- Familiarity with Schwab’s business model and the liquidity dynamics of brokerage, banking, and margin-related products.
- Experience advancing liquidity tools, reporting infrastructure, and data capabilities.
- Background supporting strategic growth, new product assessment, or business expansion in regulated environments.
- Experience preparing executive communications and materials for senior governance forums.
Success Profile:
- Strategic and forward-looking, with the ability to anticipate risks, constraints, and regulatory change before they become material issues.
- Credible and influential with senior leaders, regulators, and cross-functional partners.
- Decisive, accountable, and composed under pressure, with strong judgment and disciplined execution.
- Collaborative and enterprise-minded, with a strong orientation toward shared ownership and alignment.
- Focused on protecting the firm’s safety, soundness, and reputation while enabling responsible growth.