Treasury - Asset/Liability Management. Will it add value if I want to do investment management or research?

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Retrospectively, I think I should have said that I currently have a comparative advantage in persuasion, but my passion is for quantitative areas of corporate finance, esp. QRM.

Is this a good response if they are looking for a quantitative person?

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I worked in Treasury within BB. I got accepted to one of the top European MBAs (LBS or Insead). After MBA, my aim is to break into IBD.

How can I improve my profile to get a summer MBA internship in BB IBD? Which specific area in IBD I should target give my experience? I have four month before the program starts, what should I do to get closer to my goal?

Any advice would be very much appreciated.

Anyone have any advice on questions to ask a Treasury interviewer? I have an interview coming up and clueless...

I have a upcoming corp treasury interview. Any advice on how to prepare for technical questions would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Is Corp treasury to DCM an unreasonable jump???

Can anyone give me insight to fidelity treasury position? Culture, work, pay and exit opps? How is internal mobility within Fidelity?

Thanks

I have been offered an internship at the United States Treasury. I am currently a freshman, and I attend a non-target university (fucked around too much in high school). My current GPA is 3.823 (not the best, I know), and I am going try and bring it up to like 3.9+. Also, I am involved in Honor Societies on campus, the investment club (this is stupid as hell, though), and other clubs that match my interests.

Also, what GPA should I shoot for, especially since I am at a non-target school? (I know many will say "as high as possible", but if someone can give me a number that would be very helpful)

So I already have my bachelors in a business discipline and I work for a bank in a call center. My manager and others are pretty much clueless about most of the opps outside of the call center. I'm looking at the description for both Credit and Treasury Analysts, which require a financial background. I don't really have one, but I am pretty much over working this basic job everyday. I really do want to go back to school, but at the same time, I want to make sure I am qualified to get those positions before I do so. Any tips? Should I go back for a Masters? I feel like I may be over or perhaps under qualified for jobs at that point.

I got an initial phone interview for this position on Thursday. What piqued my attention was that it involved treasury and forex hedging, which I would find interesting. What concerns me is the "operations" title and now making me wonder how much upward mobility a position like this has.

Any input most appreciated.

Responsibilities from the job ad:

As a FSC Operations Analyst, you will assist our Global Treasury team at a tactical level with responsibility for the following:
· Performance metrics
· Ad-hoc analysis
· Bank fee analysis and allocations
· Maintenance of global FX rates, FX back office support and enablement with FX trading partners
· Bank Account Management (BAM)
· Master data set up

Curious to know what the exit opportunities for a Treasury Analyst are. I'm being recruited for such a position at the moment. I am a CFA level 1 candidate, and have a background in equity research, corp fin and consulting.

One of my Father's friends was a big Asset Manager and several top BBs in Europe, and at a point in time we went into an CIO/CTO role (He served 2 officer positions simultaneously)

I've also heard that some people manage to jump from Treasury to IB. The direct promotion fro this role, is Treasury Manger, and they do work on internal M&A.

Looking at Barcap's business areas, they offer two types of treasury internships (in London) one which is treasury governance and the other is called treasury trading.

Could anybody shed some light about the differences between these 2, what kind of tasks are involved?

Also is Barcap's treasury division middle-office?

Thanks

I recently read an interesting interview/post on mergers and inquisitions about a person who worked in a European (eastern European I think) Ministry of Finance.

Before I entered undergrad I was a nerdy obsessed high schooler with dreams of making the big bucks on Wall Street. I've slowly come to realize that perhaps 100+ hour workweeks in a shrinking industry aren't all that fun, but at the same time I actually found out I genuinely enjoy reading and learning about economics and the financial markets. Enough to pass up that easy A world cultures class for one on macroeconomics.

Hi,
Treasury bond coupons are paid on 15th may and 15th November, then why is the actual day count 181 days and not 180 days ? Why are we including both the coupon days ?

The job title is FTP and valuation analyst:

Job description:
-financial models for cash flow fair value analysis
-accounting adjustments and balance sheet impacts
-document valuations for regulators
-responsible funds transfer pricing and daily rates setting for loans and deposits
-monitor capital markets' view on interest rates
-review NIM and BS
-liquidity analysis

This is a position within corporate treasury at a MM bank headquartered in LA. What are the edit opportunities for this and if this is a good resume builder for MBA and if I wanted to move into IB.

Hi all,

I was wondering if you guys can comment on this entry treasury role at F500?

Responsibilities:

Liquidity & Interest Rate Risk Management
Responsible for ongoing monitoring of liquidity and funding requirements.
Responsible for budgeting and forecasting interest expense.
Prepare monthly packages for Asset Liability Committee and Enterprise Risk Management Committee on Liquidity & Interest Rate Risk.

Securitization Program Management

Responsible for monthly monitoring of securitization programs with respect to covenants and requirements.
Prepare monthly package for Asset Liability Committee and Enterprise Risk Management Committee on Securitization.

Capital Management

As everyone knows, hedge funds can be a bit of a mystery. Does anyone have an idea what type of role this would be and what it entails?

Hello,
I'm interviewing for a new role in my firm and I need to brush up on trade processing (life of a trade), that's the most important thing, but also and how associated depts fit in the pictures, cashiering, treasury, clearing, etc.
Can anyone recommend a current book or website that provides a good overview of how IBs work. Thanks

Fellow monkeys - I've been an FX sales trader of a super regional bank the past 4 years, hoping to make the move to F500 corporate treasury.

How would F500 treasury groups look at this experience for filling a treasury analyst position, particularly if the role is heavily weighted towards managing the FX risk of the company? How much would a CTP designation help my cause?

The reason I want to make the move is b/c I'm more interested with the risk management aspect of FX markets, as opposed to sales.

If anyone here works in a F500 treasury group, or if anyone has made this move before, if you could give a few pointers to a chimp in need, would be appreciated greatly.

I was wondering if anybody here has worked in a bank's treasury department or knows someone who does. From what I can gather from the description of JP Morgan's Chief Investment Office or Bank of America's global funding desk, traders on these desks hedge the bank's fx and interest rate exposure and are usually encouraged to take on prop risk.

This sounds exactly like what I want to be doing and I wanted to know if anyone knew the process for joining these groups and whether you see anybody with this kind of background on the buyside, specifically at macro funds. I'm starting a two-year Msc. in Finance this Fall btw.

Thanks for the help.

I recently finished Marcia Stigum's Money Markets and I'm currently reading Eurdollar Futures & Options by Burghardt and I was wondering whether anyone had some suggestions as far as good money market careers.

I was offered a job in NYC working for regional bank. I will be in the Treasury group in their fixed income portfolio management team. I will graduate full time MBA program from top business school in couple of months. I will go into the bank as an associate.

What career paths does this lead to and what should I expect as far as annual bonuses and raises?

Can anyone compare these 2 career paths? I understand that for commercial banking you start off as an analyst writing recommendations and spreading financials, followed by being promoted to a junior relationship manager.

I'm still unclear of the career path that a Treasury Analyst at a F500 would have? Maybe Treasury Analyst -> Assistant Treasurer-> Treasurer?

In terms of compensation, networking, and imression on MBA ad coms? I also know both start off in the 40-50K range. Which would have faster pay increases?

Thanks in advance from anyone with experience.

hello all I have a question about what the title of this certain position might be called.

So when a company has extra money laying around after pay after paying everybody etc. Do they typically have a sector called "investments" that is in charge of taking that extra money and investing it in some long security, derv, stock, and what not. to increase the companies profit? Or do they not. (kinda like the prop trader for a bank)

If they do what is the "job title" i am just exploring different careers and think that with a compsci and finance duo something like this might be in my ball park.

Thanks again all!!!!

I have two job offers. The first is a loan portfolio analyst for a regional bank. The other is as an assistant treasurer. Both are public companies with enterprise values of 2 billion. Which has the most career potential?

Can anyone tell me where I can find historical yields for UK Gilts, German Bunds or any of the G8 country debt? I looked on the Bank of England website but can only find the current yield curve. If anyone knows a site that aggregates this type of data that would be great.

Hello all,

Sort of a first time poster, long time reader.

Had a question regarding marketing. No, not the conventional kind. I'm currently a student at a major oil and gas firm. After reading their org chart, it seems they have a student position within their treasury department, specifically in the marketing division. What kind of job would this entail? I tried to get a sense of what it might be according to their website, but it wasn't too clear. I was able to tell a bit from suncor's marketing division, but I just wanted to post here and see if anyone has experience working in marketing, or knows a bit more.

Thanks