Treasury Dealer

About The Role

Let’s grow together!

A Platinum Investors in People employer and an award-winning UK bank, we are focused on growth and helping our customers achieve their ambitions. Working with savers and businesses across the UK, we leverage our specialist expertise to deliver sustainable success and long-term value.

We're seeking an experienced Treasury or Financial Markets Professional who is passionate about financial markets and looking to further develop their career within a dynamic and high performing Treasury function. In return, you'll gain exposure to a broad range of treasury activities, work alongside experienced professionals, and play a key role in supporting the Bank's liquidity, funding and investment strategies.

We are flexible, inclusive, committed to your wellbeing and passionate about helping our colleagues reach their full potential.

Let’s grow together …

What you’ll be doing

• Executing a range of treasury products, including interest rate and FX swaps, money market investments, repo transactions and purchasing fixed income securities, in accordance with Market Risk Policy.
• Participating in Bank of England Sterling Monetary Framework (SMF) operations and funding activities, working closely with Treasury ALM colleagues to support the Bank's liquidity and funding strategy.
• Monitoring financial markets, yield curves, interest rate expectations and macroeconomic developments, providing market intelligence and trade ideas to support treasury investment and hedging decisions.
• Assisting in the management of the Bank's interest rate and FX hedging portfolios, supporting hedge execution, performance monitoring and analysis of balance sheet exposures.
• Supporting the liquidity and cash management activities across the Group, ensuring optimal deployment of surplus funds, efficient collateral management and compliance with internal liquidity risk frameworks.
• Management of the Bank's High-Quality Liquid Assets (HQLA) portfolio, ensuring adherence to regulatory requirements, risk appetite and investment guidelines.
• Producing insightful, high-quality reporting, management information and portfolio analytics to support decision-making by senior management, ALCO and governance committees.
• Maintaining and developing relationships with bank counterparties, brokers and corporate clients, supporting KYC requirements and the onboarding of new counterparties and clients.
• Contributing to treasury projects, process improvements and system enhancements, helping to strengthen controls, improve operational efficiency and support the evolution of the Bank's treasury capabilities.

About You

What you’ll bring to the team

• Degree in a numerate discipline such as Mathematics, Physics, Engineering, Economics, Finance or a related field (minimum 2:1 or equivalent).
• 1-3 years' experience within a Bank Treasury or Financial Markets environment, with experience executing treasury products including money market investments, repo transactions, fixed income securities, FX and interest rate derivatives.
• Strong analytical skills, with the ability to interpret financial data, market developments and economic trends to support decision-making.
• A genuine interest in financial markets, macroeconomics and treasury activities, with a proactive approach to staying informed on market and regulatory developments.
• Excellent communication and relationship management skills, with the ability to engage effectively with colleagues, counterparties, brokers and clients.
• Highly organised with strong attention to detail, able to work effectively in a fast-paced environment and deliver accurate outputs to tight deadlines. Proficiency in Microsoft Excel is essential, with skills using Power BI, Bloomberg or treasury systems advantageous.

Even if you don’t meet all the criteria, we encourage you to apply. At Paragon, we value diversity and we’re excited to hear from passionate individuals like you! If you’re ready to contribute to the team, please apply.

Further information on the role can be found in the Purpose and Performance Profile (PPP), which is downloadable on this page.

Please note, applicants must have the right to work in the UK. We do not offer visa sponsorship.

Working hours

8.30am – 5.00pm (hybrid working on completion of probation)

Inclusion
As a Disability Confident Employer, we want to ensure that our vacancies are accessible for everyone. If you have a disability, long term health condition or are neurodiverse and need us to adjust our recruitment process please get in touch with our recruitment team.

About Us

What can we offer you?

• Generous Holiday Allowance: Starting from 25 days and climbing to 30, you also get to enjoy a day off for your birthday. You can also buy or sell up to a week’s leave
• Share Save Scheme: Annually, you have the opportunity to buy shares in Paragon at a discounted rate
• Profit Related Pay: We share some of our annual profit with our eligible employees
• Pension Plan: We contribute up to 10% of your annual salary towards your pension
• Family Friendly policies: We offer enhanced parental pay and paid time off for fertility treatment
• Employee Discounts: Enjoy exclusive discounts on entertainment, travel, shopping, motoring and more
• Volunteering Day: Contribute to causes you care about with one volunteering day per year
• Life Assurance and Personal Accident Cover

Be flexible

We promote flexibility around how and where we work so that you can achieve a healthier work-life balance. We operate hybrid working, splitting our week between the office and home.

Be yourself

As an equal opportunities employer, we welcome diversity and care about inclusion. That’s why we want you to be your whole self at work. We believe an inclusive workplace is good for each of us, great for our customers and better for our business. Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Network meets regularly to share challenges, experience, and ideas to build a more equal, diverse, and inclusive business.

Be heard

We listen to your point of view, with our People Forum and regular employee surveys making sure you can use your voice and influence our future.

Be well

We will give you access to a range of tools and resources to support your wellbeing. This will include a digital GP service via our free Employee Assistance Programme, access to our Wellbeing team to connect you with the help you need to get more out of life and our Vitality at Work programme to provide you with discounted gym membership, fitness equipment and another multitude of wellbeing services.

Be better

We want you to reach your potential and, as a Platinum Investors in People employer, we’ll encourage you to learn and develop by building a personalised development plan together with your manager.