Vice President Business Management

As a Vice President within Business Management, you will help optimize business performance by driving key initiatives and supporting strategic and tactical objectives. You will act as a trusted advisor to senior business leadership by identifying, escalating, and mitigating business risks that could impair the ability to do business. You will analyze financial performance, including expenses, identify productivity initiatives, and drive implementation. You will partner across Finance, Technology, Operations, Legal, and Compliance to implement new strategy, strategic initiatives, or platforms and to support evolving workflows and related projects.

Job responsibilities 

• Implement new business strategy, strategic initiatives, or platforms, including aligning department and support groups (Finance, Technology, Operations, Legal, Compliance)
• Optimize bottom-line business performance by driving key initiatives (fees, cost base, risk-weighted assets, and capital utilization)
• Identify, escalate, and mitigate business risks that could impair the ability to do business (e.g., legal, tax, regulatory, capacity issues, extraordinary transaction costs)
• Analyze financial performance, including expenses, and identify productivity initiatives and drive implementation
• Partner with the business, Operations, and Technology to define future workflows and implement related technology and infrastructure projects to meet evolving market structure requirements
• Partner with relevant external service and infrastructure providers
• Represent the business in internal and external working groups

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills 

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Economics, or other related area
• Previous product knowledge and/or prior Business Management experience or Chief Operating Officer experience
• Energetic, dynamic, and highly motivated self-starter with excellent time management and prioritization skills
• Present well to senior and global business heads
• Build strong internal relationships across a broad range of functions
• Self-motivated, tenacious, and able to work with a high degree of independence
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Define and deliver a strategic agenda across multiple groups through to conclusion
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, including ability to analyze large data sets and present conclusions concisely
• Excellent project management and organizational skills
• Demonstrate attention to detail with a logical thought process