Broker-Dealer Operations Leaders | Multiple Teams
About the role
Join Our Growing Broker-Dealer Operations Leadership Team
Client Onboarding and Data
Collateral, Margin and Settlements
Business Services and Governance
What You'll Do
Depending on the team, responsibilities may include:
- Building and leading high-performing operations teams.
- Establishing scalable processes, procedures, controls, and operating models.
- Partnering with front office, risk, compliance, technology, finance, and operational stakeholders.
- Supporting organizational growth, transformation initiatives, and regulatory readiness.
- Driving operational efficiency, data quality, process improvement, and risk management initiatives.
- Developing team members through coaching, mentoring, and performance leadership.
- Managing priorities in a fast-paced environment while delivering exceptional client and business outcomes.
What We're Looking For
Successful candidates will typically bring:
- Leadership experience within broker-dealer, capital markets, securities, institutional banking, or financial services operations.
- Expertise in one or more areas including client onboarding, data management, collateral, margin, settlements, governance, controls, or operational risk.
- Experience leading teams through growth, change, process improvement, or organizational transformation.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
- The ability to influence and collaborate across multiple business lines and stakeholders.
- A track record of building strong teams and delivering operational excellence.
Schedule & Location
Location
Schedule
Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 4+ years of experience in broker-dealer/capital markets operations, business management, governance, controls, audit, risk, or a related financial-services function.
Preferred Skills/Experience
- Proven leadership experience managing teams and complex, cross-functional operations in broker-dealer, capital markets, or securities environments.
- Strong knowledge of broker-dealer operating models, trade lifecycle processes, account structures, reference data, operational controls, and risk management frameworks.
- Experience designing and implementing procedures, controls, governance programs, escalation frameworks, operational metrics, and compliance oversight processes.
- Expertise supporting operational risk management, audit and regulatory examinations, business continuity planning, access governance, and issue remediation.
- Experience building, transforming, or scaling client onboarding, account master, security master, reference-data, collateral, settlements, governance, or operational-control functions.
- Knowledge of institutional fixed income, equities, securities operations, and new-product implementation initiatives.
- Experience with workflow automation, onboarding platforms, data governance solutions, UAT testing, and conversion or platform migration activities.
- Strong executive communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to present complex operational topics to senior leadership and governance committees.
- Advanced analytical and reporting capabilities utilizing Excel, PowerPoint, BI/reporting platforms, and operational dashboards.
- Demonstrated success leading organizational change, process standardization, operational transformation, and continuous-improvement initiatives.
- Ability to drive strategic priorities while balancing risk, regulatory requirements, operational efficiency, and client experience.
- FINRA registrations applicable to leadership responsibilities, or ability to obtain required registrations.
Location Expectations
Benefits
Our approach to benefits and total rewards considers our team members' whole selves and what may be needed to thrive in and outside work. That's why our benefits are designed to help you and your family boost your health, protect your financial security and give you peace of mind. Our benefits include the following:
- Healthcare (medical, dental, vision)
- Basic term and optional term life insurance
- Short-term and long-term disability
- Pregnancy disability and parental leave
- 401(k) and employer-funded retirement plan
- Paid vacation (from two to five weeks depending on salary grade and tenure)
- Up to 11 paid holiday opportunities
- Adoption assistance
- Sick and Safe Leave accruals of one hour for every 30 worked, up to 80 hours per calendar year unless otherwise provided by law
Review our full benefits available by employment status here .
U.S. Bank is an equal opportunity employer. We consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, religion, color, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or veteran status, and other factors protected under applicable law.
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