Banking Operations Specialist

Main Duties and Responsibilities Own and oversee delivery of CMVS processes across margin calculation, reconciliation, and collateral settlement, ensuring outputs are complete, accurate, and controlled. Provide oversight of controls within core margin platform, ensuring issues are identified, assessed, and appropriately actioned. Review and challenge exceptions, breaks, and disputes, ensuring appropriate resolution strategies and escalation where required. Act as primary escalation point for complex issues, coordinating across eg. Business, Risk, and Technology to drive resolution. Maintain accountability for control execution within the function, including ensuring controls are appropriately designed, embedded, and evidenced. Lead and deliver process improvement and control enhancement initiatives, including automation, standardisation, and reduction in manual intervention. Drive delivery of strategic change programmes, translating business requirements into implementable solutions. Provide oversight of MI and reporting, ensuring themes, risks, and trends are clearly articulated and escalated to senior stakeholders. Engage with Audit, Operational Risk, and Control functions, providing clear articulation of process design, control operation, and remediation activity. Support resource planning, prioritisation, and oversight of junior team members to ensure consistent delivery against BAU and change objectives.

Basic Qualifications:

7+ year's experience in collateral management / margin operations, with demonstrated understanding of end-to-end margin lifecycle and associated risks. Proven ability to oversee and challenge operational processes, controls, and outputs in a complex environment. Experience in managing or leading process improvement and change initiatives, including control uplift and automation. Strong understanding of control frameworks and governance expectations, including audit and risk interaction. Ability to assess and articulate operational risk, control effectiveness (in terms of execution), and required remediation actions. Advanced analytical capability, with ability to interpret complex data and identify root causes and themes. Strong stakeholder management skills, with experience engaging senior business, risk, and technology partners. Demonstrated ability to prioritise across BAU delivery and change activity while maintaining control discipline

Preferred Qualifications:

Strong knowledge of control architecture (input, calculation, movement, output) within core margin platforms Experience leading control uplift, transformation, or strategic programmes Ability to leverage data, analytics, and emerging AI tooling to enhance control visibility, MI, and process efficiency. Track record of engagement with stakeholders and governance forums, including ownership of remediation outcomes. Payrange - 35$/hr. to 40$/hr. The Company offers the following benefits for this position, subject to applicable eligibility requirements: medical insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, 401(k) retirement plan, life insurance, long-term disability insurance, short-term disability insurance, paid parking/public transportation, paid time off, paid sick and safe time, hours of paid vacation time, weeks of paid parental leave, and paid holidays annually - as applicable.