Director - Head - Position, Risk & Collateral (Global Markets IT)

Responsibilities

Vision in strategy:

• Key leadership role responsible for managing and driving the IT strategy, execution and delivery of technology and solutions, support position management, risk analytics and collateral management for GM IT
• The successful candidate will ensure management of ~100+ GM IT professionals.
• Will act as a key partner with business stakeholders to drive the overall GM IT strategy.
• Build strong relationship with global business leaders, risk managers, collateral teams to drive business successfully and to ensure consistency and alignment across systems.
• Visualize business changes and create an IT/innovation mindset so that solutions are ready for the growth of business and subsequent scale-up.

Delivery and operations:

• Overseeing delivery of high-quality, complex IT Programs for the Position, Risk and Collateral teams.
• Implement Agile methodologies to ensure efficiency in delivery operations.
• Platform availability, scalability and performance to support high transaction volumes.
• Collaborate with Application Production Support to optimize production incidents resolutions.
• Manage relationships with technology partners ensuring cost effective delivery of solutions.
• Leverage emerging technologies to enhance system architecture and solutions.
• Drive digital transformation initiatives to improve operational efficiency.
• Budget management and cost optimization.
• Continuous monitoring of performance & efficiency of the setup.
• Identify opportunities for process and technologies improvement.
• Enable solutions and act as escalation point for Administrative & HR topics.
• Provide support to business stakeholders & operations leadership.

Risk and compliance:

• Ensure compliance with global regulatory requirements.
• Implement existing robust IT governance and reporting mechanisms to manage operational excellence.
• Risk mitigation via implementation of technology obsolescence remediation.

Digital Transformation:

• Manage initiatives, which includes framing transformation programs
• Getting buy-in from stakeholders and contributors
• Define the governance, secure capacity, and budget, build/consolidate and maintain the plan, manage dependencies and drive to completion, ensuring effective communication, continuous alignment of contributors and timely running of governance routines.

People Development:

• Drive and manage people development initiatives in partnership with HR.
• Responsible for mentorship and career growth of the in-scope employees.
• Consulting point for Talent Acquisition & Technology solutions.

• Technology validation & evolution.
• Support & leadership to organizational initiatives.
• Identify gaps in existing systems and create action plan to plug those gaps rapidly.
• Promote automation on all areas that helps to improve quality and faster delivery

• An IT Engineering degree or equivalent
• At least 20 years of work experience in IT
• At least 10 years of work experience in a Capital Markets IT environment
• Hands on Programming experience of at least 10 years
• Experience of managing an overall team of at least 100 staff for at least 3 years
• Strong understand of Global Markets , trade lifecycle experience in trading platforms
• Financial markets and regulatory requirements

Skills Referential

Ability to collaborate / Teamwork

Decision Making

Attention to detail / rigor

Ability to deliver / Results driven

Analytical Ability

Ability to develop others & improve their skills

Ability to anticipate business / strategic evolution

Ability to inspire others & generate people's commitment

Ability to develop and leverage networks

Bachelor Degree or equivalent

At least 20 years

Other/Specific Qualifications