Director, Treasury Optimisation and Balance-Sheet Analytics

The mandate

The Director will build an enduring quantitative capability for evaluating treasury and balance-sheet choices under funding, liquidity, capital, interest-rate and operational constraints. Optimisation is to be used as a transparent decision discipline, not an automated instruction or a mechanism for hiding management preferences in objective functions and bounds.

The first quarter will map current decision questions, available forecasts, constraints, transfer relationships, scenario dependencies and the gap between recommended and realised outcomes. No funding structure, instrument set or system information is released before authorised disclosure. The Director must therefore start by clarifying decision rights and reliable inputs rather than importing a product-specific solver.

Delegated authority includes setting analytical standards, approving experimental methods, requiring robust challenger analysis and stopping recommendations that rely on unapproved assumptions. Funding execution, risk appetite, capital policy and final balance-sheet choices remain with named executives and committees. Every output must show trade-offs and constraints in terms decision makers can contest.

By month six, priority decisions should have reproducible baseline and constrained optimisation views, with sensitivity to forecast and market uncertainty. By month twelve, realised outcomes should be compared with recommendations, assumption error should feed method improvement and governance should distinguish model opportunity from implementable action.

The Director will develop quantitative professionals able to work across finance, risk and treasury without becoming advocates for a mathematical optimum. A healthy function will make infeasibility visible, publish negative findings and recognise when a simpler policy remains more reliable than a complex model.

What you will own

• Define quantitative decision questions with explicit objectives, horizons, constraints, decision owners and implementation boundaries.
• Build transparent baselines before introducing optimisation so incremental value and fragility can be measured.
• Quantify trade-offs among liquidity, funding cost, capital, interest-rate exposure and operational capacity.
• Test feasibility under market depth, timing, legal, currency, collateral and governance constraints.
• Apply robust, stochastic or scenario methods where uncertainty makes a point solution misleading.
• Compare recommendations with realised implementation and decompose divergence into forecast, constraint, decision and execution effects.
• Restrict use when assumptions or solver behaviour fail approved stability and explainability criteria.
• Grow senior analysts through committee presentation, challenger ownership and post-decision review.

Candidate qualifications

• Demonstrate quantitative leadership over treasury or balance-sheet decisions with several competing constraints.
• Describe an apparent optimum that became infeasible after operational or market restrictions were represented correctly.
• Show how a simple benchmark or policy outperformed a sophisticated approach out of sample.
• Evidence robust analysis of forecast uncertainty, scenario dependence and implementation slippage.
• Explain how you separated analytical recommendation from executive risk and funding decisions.
• Provide a post-decision review that materially changed modelling or governance.
• Show development of quantitative staff into credible advisers rather than output producers.

Working terms and boundaries

• This permanent full-time appointment owns quantitative standards, challenge and first-year capability build.
• The Director does not execute funding, set appetite, approve capital policy or make final balance-sheet decisions.
• Incentives reward realised decision quality, transparency and leadership depth, not theoretical objective improvement alone.
• Hybrid presence is required for major scenario workshops, committee decisions and outcome reviews.
• Counterparty, investment, adviser and data-provider conflicts must be declared before restricted information is shared.

Application

Applications for this mandate are received in one way only: through the India Board Terminal's application process. It is automated end to end. Your Executive Passport travels to the mandate holder in its confidential form, your answers to the three questions below are read before anything else in your file, and every stage that follows is recorded on your applications page.

There is no address to write to and no intermediary to call. The mandate holder reads what the Terminal delivers and nothing else, which is what keeps the process the same for every applicant and keeps your name out of it until you release it. Applications close on 5 October 2026. Mandate reference QNT-PER-2026-HKG-17.