Securities Lending Specialist

About the role

This role offers the opportunity to make a direct impact on Vanguard’s Global Securities Lending Program by owning critical day-to-day operations, resolving complex issues, and driving process improvements that mitigate risk and deliver value. You’ll partner closely with trading, investment, and global operations teams, serving as a key escalation point and thought partner. The role includes rotational exposure to the Equity Trading Floor, providing direct interaction with front-office partners and a pathway to deepen operational knowledge and investment insight.

Responsibilities

• Owes execution of day-to-day deliverables.
• Identifies and resolves complex operational issues; coaches less experienced team members.
• Acts as a regional point of escalation for complex operational issues.
• Provides regional input to global process owners for effective global solutions.
• Effectively liaises with EIG and other Global Investment Data & Operations teams to deliver value-add operational insights.
• Supports management with reviewing daily, weekly, and monthly deliverables.
• Enhances processes for fund initiatives, reporting requirements, regulatory changes, and daily operations.
• Creates value in the Global Securities Lending Program through process improvement and stakeholder relationship management.
• Maintains risk mitigation controls, contingency plans, and end-user computing tools; supports new product launches.
• Creates impact analysis, recommend solutions, and support project implementation.
• Buils strong working relationships as a thought partner to resolve complex operational issues.
• Proactively resolves elevated issues relating to stakeholder relationships.
• Develops others by providing coaching and guidance to less tenured crew.
• Participates in projects and other assigned duties.
• Buils on investment acumen to enhance output.
• Maintains conceptual knowledge of all operational rotations and ability to complete each rotation in its entirety.
• In this role, you will have the opportunity to sit and interact with stakeholders on Vanguard's Equity Trading Floor.

Qualifications

• Minimum of five years’ related work experience.
• Undergraduate degree or equivalent combination of training and experience. Accounting or Finance degree preferred.
• Investment operations experience desired.
• CFA or interest in obtaining.
• Python- demonstrated interest or ability to build code.