Business Management - Cash Equities Trading

This is a time-pressured and high-profile position which is instrumental in assisting and advising senior management and in coordinating the deployment of the bank’s corporate resources to address strategic and tactical objectives.

As a Business Manager within our North America Cash Equities Trading Business, you will optimize business performances by helping to drive key initiatives. You will act as a trusted advisor and counterweight to Business/Group Heads, and are responsible for identifying, escalating, and mitigating business risks. The role of a business manager is dynamic and can vary from business to business, in line with the priorities of the different lines of business.

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: e.g. legal, tax, regulatory, capacity issues, 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 the 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 meaningful internal relationships across a broad range of functions
• Self-motivated, tenacious and able to work with high degree of independence
• Able to both define and deliver to conclusion a strategic agenda across multiple groups
• Advanced analytical and problem solving skills with ability to analyze large data sets and present conclusions concisely
• Excellent project management and organizational skills