Charles Schwab

Senior Manager, Treasury Settlement Services

Charles Schwab • $135K — $160K *
Finance & Insurance
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years in Treasury, settlement services, or related banking environment with leadership experience.
  • Extensive experience with third-party banks and custodians in settlement processes.
  • Strong grasp of trade confirmation, cash movements, and operational controls.
  • Familiarity with collateral management concepts and processes.
  • Proficient in Treasury Management Systems and tools like Bloomberg and Tableau.
  • Experience with fixed-income securities and derivatives, including collateral requirements.
  • Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Economics, or related field; professional Treasury qualification preferred.

Responsibilities

  • Lead daily Treasury settlement services, ensuring timely trade verification and cash settlement.
  • Collaborate with Liquidity & Funding Management to align operational priorities with funding needs.
  • Oversee settlement activities with third-party entities, resolving any discrepancies or delays.
  • Establish controls to safeguard assets and ensure accurate reporting and reconciliation.
  • Develop business requirements and test plans for system changes affecting Treasury operations.
  • Drive continuous improvement in processes and technology for enhanced operational resilience.
  • Build partnerships across various departments to enhance collaboration and efficiency.

Benefits

  • Opportunity for professional development and leadership growth.
  • Engagement in cross-functional projects with diverse teams.
  • Access to advanced Treasury Management and reporting tools.
  • Involvement in strategic decision-making processes.
  • Potential for bonuses or incentives based on performance.
Full Job Description
Your Opportunity

The Senior Manager, Treasury Settlement Services (TSS) leads critical trade verification, settlement, collateral, cash movement, and exception-management activities that support the firm’s Liquidity & Funding Management team. The role is accountable for reliable daily execution, strong controls, and effective coordination across Treasury, banking partners, custodians, technology teams, and other internal stakeholders.The Senior Manager also supports the implementation, maintenance, and enhancement of trading, collateral, and treasury systems; develops business requirements and test scripts for system changes; and identifies, assesses, and escalates operational, market-infrastructure, banking, and regulatory concerns. This is a People Leader role with one or more direct reports.Expected Outcomes

What you have
  • At least 5 years of demonstrated experience in Treasury, settlement services, securities operations, liquidity operations, collateral management, or a related banking or broker-dealer environment, including experience leading professionals or projects.
  • Extensive experience working with third-party banks, custodians, clearing organizations, or correspondent settlement processes.
  • Strong understanding of trade confirmation and settlement, cash movements, reconciliations, exception management, and operational controls.
  • Experience with collateral management concepts and processes, including eligibility, initial and maintenance margin, concentration, and substitutions.
  • Knowledge of Treasury Management Systems, trade order management systems, Transcend Street, Bloomberg, Nasdaq Calypso, SWIFT Category 5 securities messages, DTCC / FICC RTTM, custodian platforms, Excel, and reporting or visualization tools such as Tableau.
  • Experience with fixed-income securities, derivatives such as interest-rate swaps, and associated collateral requirements. Experience with asset-backed securities principal and interest processing is beneficial.
  • Working knowledge of finance and accounting in a banking, broker-dealer, or corporate Treasury environment.
  • Excellent analytical, strategic planning, problem-solving, written communication, and verbal communication skills.
  • Demonstrated ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines while maintaining strong attention to detail and sound judgment.
  • Ability to build productive relationships with stakeholders at various levels and to influence outcomes across organizational boundaries.
  • Bachelor’s degree required, preferably in Finance, Economics, Accounting, Business, or a related field. A professional Treasury qualification, or progress toward one, is preferred.
What You’ll Do:
  • Lead daily Treasury settlement services supporting liquidity execution, including trade verification, cash and securities settlement, collateral movements, payment activity, exception resolution, and timely escalation of breaks or funding impacts.
  • Partner with the Liquidity & Funding Management team to align settlement readiness, cash positioning, collateral availability, and operational cutoffs with the firm’s funding and liquidity priorities.
  • Oversee settlement and collateral activity with third-party banks, custodians, clearing organizations, and counterparties, including investigation and resolution of failed, delayed, or unmatched activity.
  • Establish and maintain controls that safeguard corporate assets, support the integrity of Treasury systems, and enable accurate monitoring, measurement, reconciliation, and reporting.
  • Develop business requirements, operating procedures, test plans, and test scripts for system implementations, upgrades, and process changes affecting Treasury settlement and liquidity operations.
  • Drive continuous improvement across processes, technology, data, controls, and team capabilities, with a focus on resiliency, automation, scalability, and risk reduction.
  • Build partnerships across Treasury, Liquidity & Funding Management, Capital Markets, Finance, Accounting, Risk, Compliance, Internal Audit, Technology, and Operations.
  • Identify and escalate banking, market-structure, regulatory, and operational developments that may affect settlement, collateral, payments, or liquidity execution.
  • Lead, coach, and develop settlement services professionals; set priorities, clarify accountabilities, and reinforce a culture of control, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
Key Responsibilities: Liquidity and Settlement Operations
  • Coordinate daily settlement and cash-movement activity with Liquidity & Funding Management to support funding decisions and meet contractual and market deadlines.
  • Monitor settlement status, collateral calls, payment flows, expected receipts, and material exceptions; communicate emerging issues and potential liquidity impacts promptly.
  • Maintain effective processes for collateral eligibility, initial and maintenance margin, concentration monitoring, substitutions, and related custodian or counterparty activity.
  • Support securities, debt, derivative, bilateral and triparty repo . reverse repo activity, and asset-backed security activity, including principal and interest processing where applicable.
Risk, Controls, and Governance
  • Identify operational risks and implement robust Treasury controls for ongoing monitoring, reconciliation, measurement, reporting, and escalation.
  • Lead control reviews, procedure maintenance, issue remediation, and readiness activities for internal audit and other assurance functions.
  • Partner with Compliance on applicable KYC requirements for banking relationships and debt issuance, and support FATCA/CRS classification and reporting activities as assigned.
  • Coordinate with counterparty banks and internal stakeholders on audit confirmations, documentation requests, and compliance certificates for debt programs.
Technology and Change
  • Own or contribute to requirements, testing, implementation, and production support for Treasury Management Systems, trade order management, collateral, settlement, payment, and reporting platforms.
  • Proactively improve models, controls, workflows, and management reporting; advocate for resources and solutions that strengthen operational capability.
  • Lead or support cross-functional projects involving internal and external stakeholders, including new products, bank or custodian changes, regulatory initiatives, and platform enhancements.
Expected Outcomes
  • Reliable, timely, and well-controlled settlement, accurate collateral calculation, and cash-movement activities supporting Liquidity & Funding Management.
  • Clear visibility into exceptions, funding-sensitive events, control performance, and operational risk.
  • Scalable processes and systems that strengthen resilience, reduce manual effort, and support changing business needs.
  • A high-performing team with clear priorities, strong technical capability, and effective cross-functional partnerships.

In addition to the salary range, this role is also eligible for bonus or incentive opportunities.

About Charles Schwab

Charles Schwab is a financial services company that provides a full range of securities, brokerage, banking, money management, financial advisory, investor, and retirement plan services. It operates in four main divisions; investing, wealth management, banking, and trading. Charles Schwab provides a full-service brokerage platform that serves individual investors who invest on their own or through a workplace-sponsored retirement or equity plan, as well as banking through Schwab Bank. The firm was founded in 1973 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

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Size
34,200 employees
Market Cap
$151.6 billion
Industry
Net Income
$3.2 billion
Founded
1973
5 Year Trend
+20%
Revenue
$12.1 billion
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