Manager, Operations | Transitions Technology Team

About the role

This position oversees an operational area with guidance from senior colleagues. It involves responsibility for development or delivery (or both) and managing day-to-day service operations.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the development of annual and longer-term business plans; forecast performance against business key performance indicators (KPIs); develop business cases for key activities/projects; and estimate the financial and human resources required to deliver performance targets.
• Communicate the actions needed to implement the function's strategy and business plan within the team; explain the relationship to the broader organization's mission, vision, and values; motivate people to commit to these and to do extraordinary things to achieve local business goals.
• Manage and report on the performance of a substantial, diverse team; set appropriate performance objectives for direct reports or project/account team members and hold individuals accountable for achieving them; take appropriate corrective action where necessary to ensure the achievement of team/personal objectives.
• Manage day-to-day service operations, developing and/or delivering a plan and outcomes for a service operations area with guidance from senior colleagues.
• Identify shortcomings in existing business practices, then suggest and implement improvements while developing and delivering projects or a work stream within the organization's change management program.
• Develop procedures and interpret and apply policy for area of expertise to achieve specified outputs, or advise the wider business on application of policy, then monitor implementation of those procedures within the organization.
• Recommend changes to policies, processes, standards, and practices that would improve operational support.
• Develop and/or deliver a plan for significant aspects of internal communications with guidance from senior colleagues.
• Develop and/or deliver a contingency plan for significant aspects of the risk management and/or risk control processes.
• Develop and/or deliver budget plans with guidance from senior colleagues.
• Use the organization's formal development framework to identify the team's individual development needs. Plan and implement actions, including continuing professional development specified by professional or regulatory institutions, to build their professional capabilities.
• Provide informal training or coaching to others throughout the organization in own area of expertise to enable others to improve performance and fulfill personal potential.
• Monitor and review performance and behaviors within area of responsibility to identify and resolve noncompliance with the organization's policies and relevant regulatory codes and codes of conduct.

  Requirements

  General Experience - 6 to 10 years, Manager Experience - 3 to 6 years

  Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s: Accounting, Bachelor’s: Business Administration, Bachelor’s: Finance
  • High School (HS)
  • OS - Operations Professional - Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA)
  • s99 - Operations Professional Examination - Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA)
  • SIE - Securities Industry Essentials Exam (Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA))

  Skills

  • Uses comprehensive knowledge and skills to work independently while providing guidance and training to others on planning, organizing, prioritizing and overseeing activities to efficiently meet business objectives.
  • Uses comprehensive knowledge and skills to work independently while providing guidance and training to others on developing appropriate plans or performing necessary actions based on recommendations and requirements.
  • Uses comprehensive knowledge and skills to work independently while providing guidance and training to others on developing, monitoring, interpreting and understanding policies and procedures, while making sure they match organizational strategies and objectives.
  • Works independently and provides guidance and training to others while interpreting and applying comprehensive knowledge of laws, regulations and policies in area of expertise.
  • Applies comprehensive knowledge to act independently while providing guidance and training to others on using clear and effective verbal communications skills to express ideas, request actions and formulate plans or policies.
  • Uses comprehensive knowledge and skills to work independently while providing guidance and training to others on analyzing data trends for use in reports to help guide decision making.
  • Applies comprehensive knowledge and skills to work independently while providing guidance and training to others on reviewing and creating relevant, lucid and effective reports.
  • Uses comprehensive knowledge and/or skills to act independently while providing guidance and training to others on identifying, assessing, prioritizing and managing risks.
  • Serves as the organizational authority on meeting high customer service standards.
  • Applies comprehensive knowledge and skills to independently manage and apply safe systems of work while providing guidance and training to others.
  • Applies comprehensive knowledge and skills to independently engage in strategic planning.
  • Applies comprehensive knowledge and skills to work independently while guiding and training others on managing projects and/or programs within desired cost, time and quality parameters.
  • Applies comprehensive knowledge and/or skills to independently engage in strategic planning.
  • Works at an advanced level to orient work in a workflow to plan, organize, and execute the steps it takes to achieve a goal to achieve higher efficiencies.

  Benefits

  • Medical
  • Dental
  • Vision
  • Life insurance
  • Critical illness insurance and accident insurance
  • Disability benefits
  • Retail savings
  • Paid time off (including vacation, holidays, and sick leave)
  • Parental leave

  Pay

  The total compensation for this position includes base salary or wages, and may include components such as additional compensation (cash or equity), discretionary bonuses, or commissions.

  Schedule

  This leadership role will oversee the team of Tech Consultants in the Transitions Management dept. The position follows a hybrid-friendly schedule, with in-office days being 3 per week averaging 12 days per month in our St Petersburg, FL or Memphis, TN office.