Director – Global Business Management, Prime Brokerage

About the role

The Director Trading Business Management TDS represents the Executive Managing Director (EMD) or executive desk head, enabling smooth day-to-day business operations and supporting the execution of business strategy.

Responsibilities

• Manage day-to-day business operations, working closely with all relevant stakeholders to ensure projects, initiatives, and processes address both immediate business needs and long-term strategic priorities.
• Represent the EMD or executive desk head on all matters related to business strategy.
• Consolidate desk needs and objectives into a strategic view with a clear set of priorities that can be easily communicated and understood.
• Seek to identify critical intersection points to ensure business practices and decisions fully consider end-to-end perspectives globally.
• Partner with the VP, Business Programs to ensure colleague experience is appropriately captured as part of business strategy.
• Lead the performance planning process for the EMD or executive desk head.
• Assist in setting comprehensive goals for measuring performance, growth, and colleague experience.
• Partner with Finance to ensure measurement is consistent with and complementary to segment-level scorecard practices.
• Ensure both cash and P&L view (management reporting and Front Office flash) is understood and managed.
• Review and approve all project and FCP funding vehicle allocations.
• Manage and track all revenue and cost sharing agreements as well as expense allocations to the business.
• Develop workflows that are built for scale, efficiency, and sustainability, with a focus on aligning product development across trading platforms and simplifying global distribution channels.
• Collaborate with business manager colleagues to ensure cross-business consistency and efficiency of process delivery and execution, ensuring that best practices are identified and leveraged.
• Provide business insight and input as required for presentations to senior management, Board, and other internal and external stakeholders.
• Represent the EMD or executive desk head in key industry forums that support knowledge sharing, relationship management, and brand building.

  Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree or progressive work experience in addition to 7+ years of related experience.
  • Strong project management skills.
  • Strong leadership, interpersonal, and relationship-building skills.
  • Excellent analytical skills.
  • Excellent Microsoft Office skills, particularly Excel.
  • Presentation skills required.
  • Strong team player and capable of working in cross-organization situations.
  • Highly effective written and oral communication skills; excellent organizational skills.

  Preferred Qualifications

  • Deep desk- and product-specific knowledge, including prior experience working on a trading desk or in a complementary role.
  • Strong knowledge of TDS, across front office and infrastructure, including on governance practices and policies, new product process, and change management.
  • A proactive, energetic, and entrepreneurial leadership style.
  • Excel in operating in a constantly changing environment.
  • Strong communication, interpersonal, relationship building, consulting, teamwork, and leadership skills.
  • Ability to effectively manage numerous projects simultaneously.
  • Strong analytical thinking and ability to analyze trends with data and key metrics to propose recommendations.
  • Experience in navigating complex projects in a large organization, including technology innovation or regulatory, with ability to communicate impact / influence and collaborate with multiple stakeholder groups.