Corporate Finance Manager
Introduction:
Since 1973, East West Bank has served as a pathway to success. With over 120 locations across the U.S. and Asia, we are the premier financial bridge between the East and West. Our teams of experienced, multi-cultural professionals help guide businesses and community members on both sides of the Pacific looking to explore new markets and create new opportunities, and our sustained growth and expertise in industries like real estate, entertainment and media, private equity and venture capital, and high-tech help build sustainable businesses and expand our associates’ potential for career advancement.
Headquartered in California, East West Bank (Nasdaq: EWBC) is a top performing commercial bank with an exclusive focus on the U.S. and Greater China markets. With a strong foundation, and enterprising spirit and a commitment to absolute integrity, East West Bank gives people the confidence to reach further.
Responsibilities:
- Lead monthly corporate forecasting process including projected income statement, balance
sheet, risk-weighted assets (RWA) capital ratios:
- Take ownership of 5-year corporate financial forecast process and model.
- Collaborate with various teams to update assumptions for interest income and expense,
statement and balance sheet items.
- Work in partnership with the Asset Liability Management (ALM) team to compare
- Integrate actuals information into forecast from accounting systems and other data
- Summarize financial forecasts for Executive Management and the Board.
- Support Investor Relations on financials for earning releases and guidance.
- Leverage the forecast model to support other initiatives including the 5-year Strategic
- Provide ongoing improvement of financial forecast model and process including
- Manage the enterprise-wide capital stress testing process:
- Develop the annual capital stress testing project plan including key work product, owners,
- Manage the macroeconomic scenario process including data collection and presentation
- Collaborate with various teams (Treasury, Accounting, FX / Interest Rate) teams to
- Analyze and forecast other potential losses related to other key risks including
- Manage the aggregation model of stress testing.
- Develop presentations on capital stress testing progress and results for Executive
- Work in partnership with model owners to ensure the capital stress testing use case is
- Support capital stress testing process enhancement, control, challenge, governance and
- Manage the corporate economic forecasting process:
- Provide insights from current economic events and government data releases (inflation,
- Provide comparisons to other published forecasts
- Download and analyze monthly macroeconomic scenarios from vendor.
- Support model risk management activities related the global macroeconomic model.
- Support other Treasury initiatives and responsibilities, including stock buybacks, dashboards, key
support, meeting minutes production and review, and second, third and regulatory reviews.
- Identify Corporate Finance processes needing improvement of efficiency and automation and
- Maintain, develop and validate other financial models as needed to serve corporate finance and
- Adaptability for work on ad hoc Corporate Finance and Treasury projects.
Qualifications:
- At least 10 years of relevant Finance work experience.
- Bachelor’s degree required, preferably in a quantitative field (e.g., Economics, Finance,
- An advanced degree in a quantitative field and/or a professional certification directly related to
- Comprehensive knowledge of latest DFAST/CCAR requirements and guidelines or experience
- Strong understanding of US Basel III regulatory guidelines and hands on experience with RWA
- Ability to define, articulate and re-engineer complex processes and procedures, with appropriate
- Able to navigate through large organizations to streamline and summarize multiple information
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office is required. Strong Microsoft Excel skills including familiarity with
accuracy, automation, repeatability, auditability and presentability. Microsoft Power BI experience
preferred.
- Experience with VBA and/or SQL is a major plus.
- Experience working with large datasets.
- Strong analytical and math skills a must. Enthusiastic about solving large, complicated problems
- Strong work ethic and intellectual curiosity
- Strong organizational, critical thinking, and customer service skills
- Ability to multi-task and manage competing deadlines
- Ability to meet tight timelines and prioritize workloads
- Ability to work individually and as a team member.
- Excellent communication and analytical skills
The base pay range for this position is USD $170,000.00/Yr. - USD $225,000.00/Yr. Exact offers will be determined based on job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and location.