Senior Team Manager - Global Derivative Operations

Job Purpose and Impact

This Role will provide guidance, training, development and performance management to derivatives operations analysts. In this role, you will supervise and perform the operational aspects of daily derivatives operations and financial services activities while maintaining high levels of internal controls and ensuring regulatory and internal compliance. You will play a critical role in implementing continuous improvement initiatives and projects to support the goals and vision of the business. In this role, you will collaborate with key internal and external contacts on day to day derivatives operations, operational risk issues & escalations, and drive continuous improvement initiatives and projects to support the goals and vision of the business.

Key Accountabilities

• Oversee and perform a wide scope of derivatives and financial operations activities e.g. trade matching, reconciliations, position management, life cycle events, letters of credit, commissions, trader access & limits, logical access reviews, corporate reporting, metrics and key performance indicators within the operations team and maintain a high level of internal control to assure regulatory and internal compliance.
• Utilize comprehensive technical knowledge and operations experience to provide proactive and timely advice and direction to the team in resolving issues to support business activities and actively participate in key business initiatives and champion implementation efforts within the operations team.
• Oversee, monitor and run complex system processes e.g. end of market and end of day processes for exchanges, report and extract generation, system feeds, reference and static data, error analysis and remediation action.
• Perform second review of derivatives operational activities e.g. system processes, reconciliations and limit requests, trade documentation and invoices as relevant for the transaction and review nonstandard transactions to ensure quality and gather issues and share learnings with the broader team.
• Oversee derivatives operations activities including review and resolution of issues.
• Recognize trade deviations and make initial assessments on materiality and impacts of the deviations and assist with requests for approval of deviations from respective authorities.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualification

• Bachelors degree with a minimum of 8 years in a related field or equivalent experience
• Substantial knowledge of derivatives transactions, its norms and procedures and derivatives products.
• Experienced in leveraging financial and business systems to monitor business activities and aid in decision making.
• 5+ years of people management experience leading teams of 20+ members
• Other minimum qualifications may apply

Preferred Qualification

• Five years of supervisory experience
• Bachelors degree in Finance, Master's degree
• Six years of financial / business analysis experience
• Experience in leveraging digital technology in trading, operational, reporting and analysis processes

PRIOR BENEFICIAL EXPERIENCES

• Process standard to nonstandard derivatives transactions, including trade confirmation and settlement.
• Experience executing operational derivatives processes in a regulated environment.
• FIS CD and GMI