# Global Head of Prime Derivatives Services Operations **Company**: Barclays **Experience**: executive **Job type**: full-time **Category**: Operations **Industry**: Finance **Apply**: https://barclays.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/External_Career_Site_Barclays/job/New-York-745-7th-Avenue/Director---PDS---Agency-Clearing_JR-0000118913?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_d2585762-05e ## Description We are seeking a Global Head of Prime Derivatives Services Operations to lead our global Prime Derivatives Services Operations organisation. You will be responsible for managing operations within a business area and maintaining processes, risk management initiatives, and compliance with relevant regulators. **Key Responsibilities:** - Lead the global Prime Derivatives Services Operations organisation, with accountability for colleagues globally across multiple locations as well as an outsourced service provider relationship. - Own the end-to-end operational delivery of PDS to our clients, spanning Futures & Options / Listed Derivatives, OTC Clearing, FX Prime Brokerage, PDS Treasury, collateral and margin management, client money protection, futures deliveries, options expiry, fees & commissions, and client service and strategy. - Maintain a safe, stable and resilient operating environment, with clear ownership of operational risk, controls, regulatory obligations and service continuity. - Act as the senior Operations partner to PDS business leadership, bringing an Operations perspective into commercial and strategic decision-making. - Set a new standard for client service, building a more proactive, strategic and insight-led client model. - Drive the next phase of automation, simplification and strategic transformation, identifying opportunities to remove manual activity, create capacity, improve scalability and reduce operational risk. - Empower a globally consistent operating model, ensuring global consistency and clear accountability and standards across the organization. - Own the PDS Operations strategic portfolio and commercial agenda, providing clear visibility to senior stakeholders of priorities, investment, delivery, benefits and impact. - Build a sustainable global leadership and talent model, identifying and developing top talent, strengthening succession, reducing key-person dependencies and ensuring critical institutional knowledge is embedded within globally resilient processes and teams. - Represent PDS Operations credibly at the most senior levels, building strong relationships with clients, business and functional leadership, Technology, Risk and other partners. **What you gain:** - A genuine Global Head mandate , with meaningful accountability and visibility across the global franchise. - Ownership of a broad and sophisticated derivatives operating platform , covering Listed Derivatives, Futures & Options, OTC Clearing, FXPB, Treasury, collateral and margin, client money, deliveries and expiries, fees and commissions, alongside client service and strategy. - A strong platform to build from, rather than a turnaround to rescue , inheriting a stable, performant and well-controlled organisation with an excellent team. - The opportunity to redefine and evolve what excellent client service looks like in Operations , moving beyond traditional transaction processing and issue resolution towards a proactive, strategic partnership model. - A meaningful transformation mandate , with the sponsorship to challenge established ways of working, accelerate automation, simplify processes and use technology to create capacity, scalability and materially reduce operational risk. - The chance to shape a truly global operating model , addressing historic inconsistencies across locations and processes and establishing clearer global standards, accountabilities and ways of working. - Significant exposure to senior business leadership and clients , operating as a trusted partner to the PDS business and engaging directly with major clients, Technology, Risk, Finance, external market infrastructure and other senior stakeholders. - An opportunity to build their own impact , developing the next generation of PDS Operations leaders, creating strong succession pipelines, and nurturing high-potential talent. - Real influence over evolution and strategic priorities , shaping the PDS Operations book of work, making choices around where the organisation invests its people and technology capacity. - A significant career platform , combining global people leadership, complex markets operations, client engagement, transformation, risk ownership and commercial accountability in one role. ## Skills ### Required - leadership - operations management - risk management - compliance - strategic planning ### Nice to have - derivatives operations - client service - automation - transformation - global operating model --- Source: [Apply at barclays.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com](https://barclays.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/External_Career_Site_Barclays/job/New-York-745-7th-Avenue/Director---PDS---Agency-Clearing_JR-0000118913?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)