South Africa Country Treasurer Balance Sheet

This role ensures the effective management of balance sheet resources within the respective country. Additionally, the role is accountable for ensuring Citi has robust liquidity and capital management practices, consistent with global policy and local regulatory requirements. The position sits within Citi Treasury. It requires a substantial amount of senior stakeholder and regulator management and is also a key senior leadership position within the Global Treasury and Finance function.

**Job Purpose**:
This role is responsible for the prudential management of Citi’s capital, funding, liquidity, and balance sheet in the respective country. In performing this function, the Country Treasurer must ensure that the Citi legal entities under his or her purview adhere to local regulatory liquidity requirements and global internal Citi liquidity policy requirements.

Additionally, the Country Treasurer will be responsible for regulatory relationships and will serve as the Treasury representative for the relevant Boards of Directors.

**Responsibilities**:

- The Country Treasurer is responsible for:

- Prudent management of the Balance Sheet of each Legal Entity and disciplined practices in managing treasury risk exposures
- Managing the capital, funding and liquidity of all the legal vehicles within their jurisdiction across all lines of business
- Provide advisory service on treasury strategy and support Country-specific Assets and Liability governance committee discussions - ALCO or local Country Coordinating Committee (CCC)
- Devise treasury strategies with Markets Treasury, Market Risk and business segments. Providing product, customer and geographic businesses with risk identification, risk management, product development and funding strategy through appropriate transfer pricing of both interest and liquidity risks, as approved by the Country ALCO and the Regional Treasurer
- Monitoring of resultant liquidity, interest rate and currency risks, adhering to buffers, limits, triggers and reporting integrity, of local and global minimum requirements.
- Evaluation of activities with all businesses to ensure regulatory and local rating agency requirements are met with respect to balance sheet, liquidity, interest rate, FX, and capital measurements
- Communication to Country ALCOs and Regional Treasurer of accurate and timely information about material balance sheet exposure, changes, and issues.
- The following outlines the behaviours and tasks associated with each Area of Responsibilities Country Treasurers are responsible for:
**_ Business Engagement and Local Governance committees / ALCOs:_**

Conduct an effective Assets and Liabilities governance committee (i.e ALCO or CCC) in coordination with the CCO, ensuring the primary responsibilities of Country Assets and Liabilities governance are covered and governance best practices are adhered to as laid out in policy. Work collaboratively with the CCO and country businesses and Cluster Treasurer (where applicable) to drive an efficient and prudential balance sheet, oversee and influence liquidity levels and structures, oversee and ensure transparent execution of transfer pricing for the businesses in accordance with policies and plans, drive returns for the country. Country Treasurer engagement in Balance Sheet planning and budgeting, to ensure appropriate allocation between assets/liabilities products and forward-looking balance sheets are implemented in line with expectation.

**_ Liquidity:_**

Manage the liquidity profile of the entities in your country including prudent management of intraday liquidity and daily liquidity metrics / short term cash flow forecasts, to meet minimum regulatory and internal liquidity requirements as required by Citi’s internal policies and ensure escalation triggers are in place to provide early warning of funding pressures. Ensure proper escalation of any triggers and breaches in compliance with the requirements of Citi’s internal policies.Provide Treasury attestation for all required global and local liquidity reports. Prepare comprehensive Funding and Liquidity Plans, including Contingency Plans, and monitor balance sheet activity against these plans. Prepare ILAAP where applicable. Collaborate with Global Liquidity Management team, Finance and businesses to facilitate global data improvement initiatives to ensure the integrity of reporting of all internal and external metrics

**_ FTP / LTP: _**

Oversee net interest margin and transfer pricing processes, establishment of single benchmark yield curves, Liquidity Premium, interest rate risk management of the banking books. Drive the consensus and sound decisions on country Funds Transfer Pricing (ITP/FTP) and Liquidity Transfer Pricing (LTP) to appropriately reflect business profitability based on true interest rates and liquidity costs of the franchise, and to transfer hedgeable market interest rate risk for centralized management by Markets Treasury. This is achieved thro