Senior Treasury Portfolio Manager

Location: Paramus, New Jersey, United States of America

Salary: $180,900–$301,500 annual USD

Company

M&T Bank is a banking organization with a Corporate Treasury function focused on securities, mortgage portfolios, risk management, and balance sheet strategy.

What you will do

• Lead the Bank Portfolio team and supervise 1–3 staff members, including staffing, performance management, and development.
• Manage fixed income securities and held-for-investment residential mortgage portfolios in line with the Board-approved risk appetite.
• Develop interest rate risk, asset/liability management, investment, mortgage, and trade execution strategies.
• Analyze market opportunities, portfolio positions, valuation, prepayment assumptions, and contributions to consolidated risk and accounting results.
• Lead portfolio IT enhancement initiatives, including prepayment model upgrades, and maintain model oversight documentation.
• Present strategies and analysis to executive management, ALCO, risk governance committees, audit, regulators, and cross-functional stakeholders.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Math, Economics, or a related field, plus at least 9 years of related experience focused on mortgages or mortgage-backed securities; alternatively, 13 years of combined higher education and work experience with at least 9 years of relevant experience.
• Direct experience managing or advising a discretionary bank portfolio and executing related capital markets trades.
• Demonstrated expertise with Calypso fixed income analytical software.
• Comprehensive knowledge of fixed income instruments and markets, market risk assessment, valuation, and prepayment modeling.
• Knowledge of asset/liability management, fixed income accounting or market risk, and regulatory and governance requirements.
• Strong verbal, written, presentation, analytical, management, and cross-functional collaboration skills.

Nice to have

• Master’s degree in Business Administration.
• Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) certification.
• Experience with stochastic model outputs, fair value measurement theory, GAAP, tax, and regulatory actions related to portfolio management.

Culture & Benefits

• Work with stakeholders across Treasury, Compliance, Finance, Legal, Operations, Mortgage, Risk, and Audit.
• Operate within established risk appetite, internal control, compliance, and regulatory standards.
• Support belonging and reflect the M&T Bank brand.
• Participate in a fast-paced, team-oriented environment.