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.