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What You’ll Do
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Job Summary:
This role provides strategic leadership over the organization’s balance sheet risk management activities, ensuring alignment between financial structure, risk appetite, and business objectives. This role oversees enterprise-wide practices for managing liquidity, interest rate, and foreign exchange risks while guiding stakeholders through complex regulatory, financial, and market considerations.
Essential Functions:
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- Establish and lead the organization’s approach to balance sheet risk management, including liquidity, interest rate, and foreign exchange exposures.
- Oversee the measurement, monitoring, and mitigation of risks arising from mismatches in asset and liability cash flows and funding structures.
- Set governance frameworks, policies, and guidelines for balance sheet management, financial modeling, and risk reporting.
- Ensure accurate, timely, and decision-useful reporting of balance sheet positions for internal leadership, regulators, and external stakeholders.
- Direct the development and review of financial models used to assess structural balance sheet risks and long-term resilience.
- Partner with senior leaders across finance, treasury, risk, and business units to align balance sheet strategy with enterprise priorities.
- Evaluate the impact of strategic initiatives, market conditions, and regulatory changes on balance sheet risk and capital efficiency.
- Provide executive-level insights and recommendations to guide funding strategies, investment decisions, and risk mitigation actions.
- Represent the organization in discussions with regulators, auditors, and rating agencies related to balance sheet risk and liquidity management.
- Lead and develop senior talent within the Asset Liability Management function, fostering strong risk discipline and analytical rigor.
Typical Scope:
- Drives execution of functional strategies and ensures alignment with broader business goals. Oversees operational performance, resource allocation, and process optimization. Supports strategic planning and contributes to the development of policies, budgets, and infrastructure that enable long-term success. Makes decisions with significant organizational impact, often involving complex, cross-functional considerations. Works closely with executive leadership and influences decisions on matters of strategic importance.
- Oversees a business function at the local or regional level, with broad accountability for operational and strategic outcomes. Responsible for executing strategy and directing operations across multiple teams. Possesses deep expertise in their functional area and a strong understanding of organizational dynamics. May contribute to strategy development and long-term planning for their function.
- Manages through multiple layers of leadership, typically overseeing Directors and Senior Managers. Sets direction for talent development, succession planning, and organizational culture within their function. Builds strong leadership capability across teams and fosters collaboration and accountability.
- 4 - 7 Directors, Senior Managers, Managers, Assistant Managers and/or Principal Professionals and below reporting to them.
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What You’ll Need
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Education & Experience:
- Required Education: Bachelor's degree in field relevant to role (or 4 additional years of relevant experience in lieu of a degree), advanced degree preferred.
- Required Experience: 8 years of relevant experience, 6 years as a People Leader.
Qualifications & Skills:
- Extensive experience in balance sheet risk management, treasury, financial risk, or related finance leadership roles within complex organizations.
- Deep expertise in liquidity management, interest rate risk, and balance sheet analytics across diverse financial structures.
- Strong command of financial modeling, risk measurement methodologies, and regulatory reporting expectations.
- Proven ability to influence executive decision-making and guide enterprise-level financial strategy.
- Demonstrated leadership capability, including setting direction, managing senior teams, and driving cross-functional alignment.
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to convey complex financial risks clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.
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What We Do
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DCU is the largest credit union headquartered in New England – serving more than one million members in all 50 states. With over 1,700 team members, we strive to make DCU a great place to work with an excellent work-life balance, and a community that cares.
DCU is an equal opportunity employer, and we value diversity, inclusion, and equity at our company. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics.
If you’re applying for a job and need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please send an email to careers@dcu.org and let us know the nature of your request and contact information. Please note that only those inquiries concerning a request for reasonable accommodation will be responded to from this email address.
DCU is not currently offering Visa transfer/ sponsorship for this position.
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