Assistant Vice President, Liquidity Management

Oaktree Capital Management, L.P.•Los Angeles, CA

8d•$150,000 - $185,000

About The Position

Oaktree is seeking an Assistant Vice President to join its Liquidity Management team. The role helps lead firm-wide liquidity forecasting and reporting, excess-cash investment, and liquidity risk-management activities. It develops and manages enterprise-wide liquidity projections, optimizes excess-cash deployment, and helps maintain sufficient liquidity across global operations in normal and stressed market conditions. The successful candidate will serve as a strategic partner across the Finance Division, supporting funding decisions and developing scalable liquidity-management processes and infrastructure. Key areas include forecasting methodologies, stress testing, investment guidelines, and governance. The role involves close collaboration with Fund Finance, Investment Operations, Capital Solutions, Legal, Compliance, and external banking and market counterparties.

Requirements

9–11 years of experience in Corporate Treasury, Liquidity Management, Cash Management, Treasury Consulting, Banking, Capital Markets, or related financial services roles.
Demonstrated experience developing and managing enterprise liquidity forecasting models across multiple time horizons.
Experience designing liquidity stress-testing methodologies and scenario-analysis frameworks.
Experience managing excess-cash portfolios, short-term investments, or institutional liquidity portfolios.
Strong understanding of money markets, repo markets, short-term investment instruments, interest rates, funding markets, and market conventions.
Experience managing Treasury-related agreements, banking documentation, investment contracts, and counterparty relationships.
Strong knowledge of bank-account management, cash positioning, payment operations, and liquidity movements across multiple banking platforms.
Self-starter able to spearhead initiatives and solve complex problems.
Strong analytical and quantitative skills, including advanced financial modeling capabilities.
Ability to synthesize complex financial information into actionable recommendations for senior management.
Excellent judgment and decision-making skills in dynamic market environments.
Strong understanding of financial markets and intellectual curiosity about liquidity, funding, and investment strategies.
Exceptional organizational skills and ability to manage multiple priorities while maintaining attention to detail.
Strong communication and relationship-management skills, with the ability to collaborate across Treasury, Finance, Operations, investment teams, and external counterparties.
Strategic mindset and ability to build scalable processes and improve Treasury infrastructure.
High degree of professionalism, integrity, and ownership, with a commitment to high-quality work.
Bachelor's degree required.

Nice To Haves

Experience in foreign exchange markets, currency exposure management, and common hedging instruments and strategies, including forwards and swaps.
Experience in investment management, alternative asset management, banking, insurance, or another sophisticated financial institution.
Experience with Treasury Management Systems, financial modeling, Bloomberg, banking portals, and reporting tools.
Advanced degree and/or professional certifications such as CFA, CTP, FRM, CPA, or equivalent.

Responsibilities

Develop, maintain, and enhance short-, medium-, and long-term enterprise liquidity forecasting models.
Monitor projected cash flows, funding requirements, and liquidity positions to support treasury operations and strategic decisions.
Analyze liquidity trends, capital activity, investment cash flows, financing events, and operational cash movements to identify funding risks and opportunities.
Prepare recurring liquidity reports, dashboards, and management presentations for Finance and Global Treasury leadership.
Develop analytical tools and reporting processes that improve visibility into liquidity positions and forecast accuracy.
Develop and maintain liquidity stress-testing and scenario-analysis frameworks to assess funding resilience and contingency actions.
Manage excess liquidity and invest surplus cash within approved investment guidelines and risk parameters.
Evaluate money market instruments, reverse repurchase agreements, short-term deposits, and other approved liquidity products.
Monitor funding markets, interest rates, and pricing dynamics; execute daily investment and funding transactions while maintaining risk buffers and principal preservation objectives.
Develop frameworks to optimize excess-liquidity deployment across strategies while balancing operational and strategic needs.
Manage liquidity movements across bank accounts, custodians, and investment vehicles; oversee bank-account liquidity positioning and support account rationalization and optimization.
Partner with Treasury Operations to execute funding activities and cash movements across the global banking network.
Identify opportunities to improve automation, operational efficiency, and reporting in liquidity-management processes.
Manage relationships with banking partners, custodians, money market counterparties, and repo counterparties.
Negotiate, maintain, and oversee investment agreements, repo documentation, account agreements, and other Treasury-related contracts.
Coordinate with Legal, Compliance, and external counterparties to keep documentation current and aligned with business needs.
Monitor counterparty exposures, creditworthiness, and approved investment limits in coordination with internal risk-management frameworks.