Senior Operations Specialist, Director

Job Description

Position Summary

Guggenheim Treasury Services (GTS), a structured financing business within Guggenheim Partners, is seeking an exceptional Senior Operations professional to join its team as a Director. This individual will play a pivotal role in supporting complex funding transactions, ensuring operational excellence for the business, and partnering closely with front office, risk, finance, and technology teams. The successful candidate will combine deep product knowledge with strong process management skills to drive efficiency, mitigate risk, and enable business growth.

The role presents an opportunity to join one of the initial business lines of Guggenheim Partners providing: the opportunity to work at the intersection of trading, treasury, and structured funding; exposure to complex and innovative financial transactions in a fast-paced environment; a collaborative culture with opportunities to lead process improvements and mentor colleagues; and competitive compensation, benefits, and career development opportunities.

This position reports in office 3 to 4 days per week, in our Chicago office.

Essential Job Functions

• Trade Lifecycle Management: Oversee the full lifecycle of trading and structured funding transactions, from trade capture and affirmation through settlement, collateral, and reconciliations.
• Transaction Booking: Ensure accurate and timely booking of transactions into trade capture, risk, and accounting systems, maintaining consistency across front-to-back platforms.
• Structured Funding Operations: Support bespoke financing and liquidity solutions, including repo, securities lending, derivatives, and structured note issuances.
• Risk & Control Oversight: Maintain robust control frameworks to ensure compliance with regulatory requirements, internal policies, and market standards. Proactively identify, escalate, and resolve operational risks.
• Process Optimization: Lead initiatives to streamline workflows, automate processes, and enhance operational resiliency across funding and trading businesses.
• Stakeholder Partnership: Collaborate with traders, structurers, treasury, legal, compliance, and technology teams to enable smooth execution of complex transactions.
• Regulatory Reporting & Compliance: Ensure accuracy and timeliness in regulatory submissions, disclosures, and funding-related reporting.
• Leadership & Mentorship: Provide guidance to junior team members, fostering professional growth and promoting a culture of accountability and excellence.
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong knowledge of products such as repos, securities lending, derivatives, commercial paper, and other funding instruments.
• Proven expertise in trade lifecycle management, transaction booking into both trade capture and accounting systems, collateral management, and settlement processes.
• Solid understanding of regulatory requirements, and comfort operating in a regulated environment.
• Excellent problem-solving, analytical, and organizational skills with meticulous attention to detail.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills with ability to influence and partner across teams.
• Proficiency with trade capture and accounting systems, as well as advanced Excel and data analysis tools.
  
  

Basic Qualifications

• Completion of a bachelor’s degree is required.
• Minimum of 8 years of experience in operations, middle office, or treasury functions within financial services, ideally with exposure to trading and structured funding.
  
  

Work Location

• Currently, this role is expected to be in the office at least 3 to 4 days per week, in our Chicago office.
  
  

Salary

• Annual base salary between $100,000 and $200,000.
  
  

The base salary range represents the low and high end of the anticipated base salary range for this position. Actual base salaries may vary depending on factors such as location and experience. The range listed reflects base salary only, and the total compensation package may include other components such as incentive compensation.

About Us

Guggenheim Partners is a diversified financial services firm that delivers value to its clients through two primary businesses: Guggenheim Investments, a premier global asset manager and investment advisor, and Guggenheim Securities, a leading investment banking and capital markets business. Guggenheim’s professionals are based in offices around the world, and our commitment is to deliver long-term results with excellence and integrity while advancing the strategic interests of our clients.

Guggenheim is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran. Learn more at GuggenheimPartners.com, and follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter @GuggenheimPtnrs."