As a Vice President in Business Management, you will spend each day defining, refining, and delivering set goals for our firm. In the role of Business Management, you will optimize business performance by driving key initiatives and acting as a trusted advisor and counterweight to Business/Group Heads. You will be responsible for identifying, escalating, and mitigating business risks, with the role being dynamic and varying across different lines of business in line with their priorities.
This is a time-pressured and high-profile position, instrumental in assisting and advising senior management and coordinating the deployment of the bank’s corporate resources to address strategic and tactical objectives.
Job responsibilities
- Implement new business strategy, strategic initiatives, or platforms, including aligning department and support groups (Finance, Tech, Ops, Legal, Compliance).
- Optimize 'bottom line' business performance by driving key initiatives (fees, cost base, RWA, and capital utilization).
- Identify, escalate, and mitigate business risks that could impair our ability to do business, such as legal, tax, regulatory, capacity issues, and extraordinary transaction costs.
- Analyze financial performance, including expenses; identify productivity initiatives and drive implementation.
- Partner with the business, Operations, and Technology in the definition of future workflows and implementation of related technology and infrastructure projects to prepare the business to meet the requirements of an ever-evolving market structure.
- Partner with relevant external service/infrastructure providers.
- Represent the business in respective internal/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 or COO experience
- Energetic and dynamic in style
- Highly motivated self-starter with excellent time management/prioritization skills
- Present well to senior and global business heads
- Able to forge strong internal relationships across a broad range of functions
- Self-motivated, tenacious and able to work with high degree of independence
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Able to both define and deliver to conclusion a strategic agenda across multiple groups
- Strong analytical and problem solving skills with ability to analyze large data sets and present conclusions concisely
- Excellent project management and organizational skills
- Attention to detail with logical thought process