Group Treasury Specialist
Optiver is a global technology- and research-driven proprietary trading firm and market maker providing liquidity across financial markets, including through an active 24/7 Digital Assets desk.
About Optiver
Founded in Amsterdam in 1986, Optiver uses its own capital, quantitative research and proprietary technology to continuously quote, price and trade financial instruments across global markets. Its activities include listed derivatives, cash equities, ETFs, bonds, foreign currencies and digital assets; its Digital Assets desk operates crypto options market-making strategies across major venues with follow-the-sun coverage.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will monitor cash and liquidity, support forecasting and investment activities, and help manage FX hedging. You will contribute to the Kyriba implementation, validate data, integrate processes, build automation and AI-enabled solutions, maintain controls, develop liquidity models, monitor counterparties, and support strategic treasury initiatives.
Requirements
- Analytical and data-driven skills
- Evidence of building process-improvement or data solutions
- Practical experience with AI tooling and large language models
- Working knowledge of Python and SQL
- Knowledge of Git, scheduling, and structured outputs
- Finance knowledge sufficient to understand balance sheets, liquidity, and capital
- Interest in financial markets
- Foundational knowledge of fixed income, credit, and FX
- Ability to challenge established approaches
- Numerical accuracy under time pressure
- Strong English communication and collaboration skills
Responsibilities
- Monitor global cash positions and liquidity requirements
- Support short- and long-term cash forecasting
- Optimize the deployment of excess liquidity
- Help complete the Kyriba implementation through configuration, testing, data validation, and process integration
- Identify and remove manual processes using automation and AI tooling
- Support short-term investment portfolio management
- Monitor and support FX hedging execution and analyze hedging costs
- Develop liquidity, trading-capital, and stress-scenario models
- Maintain treasury controls and monitor counterparty and clearing exposures
- Support periodic treasury reporting
- Contribute to funding, entity-establishment, banking-relationship, and operating-model initiatives
Benefits
- Performance-based bonus structure
- 25 paid vacation days in the first year, increasing to 30 from the second year
- Training opportunities
- Health-insurance discounts
- Fully paid first-class commuting expenses
- Breakfast, lunch, dinner, and barista coffee
- In-house physio and chair massages
- Organized sports, leisure activities, and Friday afternoon drinks
- Access to conferences and tech events
- Relocation packages
- Visa sponsorship where necessary for expats
