Managing Director – Head of Global Asset Operations
About the job
• Lead and oversee all operational activities supporting a breadth of public and private asset types, alternative equity, and derivatives, supporting business around the globe.
• Manage global collateral, margin, and liquidity operations across counterparties, ensuring robust controls and efficiency.
• Anticipate market and business trends to ensure operational readiness for new asset classes, strategies, and regulatory environments.
• Foster strong external relationships with custodians, administrators, counterparties, and technology providers to drive value and innovation.
• Establish consistent global standards while adapting to regional market structures and regulatory frameworks.
• Build, lead, and mentor a high-performing global operations team (25+ individuals) primarily based in the U.S., with team presence in London and Asia, supporting a 'follow-the-sun' model for timely, in-region activity.
• Serve as a trusted partner to investment, risk, finance, and technology leaders, ensuring seamless alignment across functions.
• Promote a culture of curiosity, continuous improvement, and accountability.
• Lead complex, global operational management and workflows, across front, middle, and back-office processes for various asset classes.
• Lead operational risk management efforts, including identifying, assessing, and mitigating operational risks, while ensuring compliance with legal and regulatory requirements across all regions.
• Ensure reporting via Investment risk team.
• Manage relationships with key external partners and service providers, actively contributing to vendor and system evaluations and selection process.
• Lead resource planning and needs assessment, manage operations within established budgets, and define benchmarks and KPIs that align operational performance with financial outcomes.
• Leverage analytics and data visualization to deliver clean, actionable insights to senior leadership and key stakeholders.
• Champion adoption of modern investment systems, data architecture, and digital tools to drive automation, transparency, and scalability.
• Continuously evaluate and adopt external best practices onto our operational platform.
• Partner with Investment Data & Technology Products and Global Technology and Enterprise Data teams to continuously improve processes and enable enterprise-wide reporting and analytics
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting, economics, or related field
- 15+ years of experience in investment operations, with significant leadership responsibility across public and private assets, derivatives and collateral, multiple currencies
- 10+ years of management experience; prefer experience in leading global teams and/or experience in managing assets in an insurance/reinsurance environment
- Proven record in operational improvement (prefer knowledge and experience with methodologies like Lean, Agile)
- Experience with broad range of asset types and multiple currencies
- Preferred Advanced degree or CFA
- Experience in evaluating and implementing new systems and/or operational improvements, particularly around private assets, loans, and derivatives
- Professional memberships/affiliations/accreditation or networks that support access to industry trend insight and best practices
- Experience working in virtual and/or remote team environments
- Exposure to multiple regulatory, accounting, and national requirements
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Hard Skills
- investment operations
- operational risk management
- operational improvement
- Lean methodology
- Agile methodology
- data visualization
- analytics
- collateral management
- liquidity operations
- asset management
Soft Skills
- leadership
- mentoring
- relationship management
- communication
- team building
- strategic thinking
- problem-solving
- adaptability
- curiosity
- accountability
Certifications & Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree
- Advanced degree
- CFA
- professional memberships
- accreditation
