One of the world’s leading financial firms seeks a Head of Equity Services to take overall responsibility for ensuring that the Equities trading business in the Tokyo office is supported by an efficient and effective operations process.
Position Description:
The Head of Equity Services will take overall responsibility for ensuring that the Equities trading business in the Tokyo office is supported by an efficient and effective operations process. Specifically, the selected individual will be expected to:
Resolve any issues by effectively navigating the operations organizational structure to locate the source of trouble, and take any necessary actions
Take part in senior level discussions on business strategy
Develop solid business plans and budgets to deliver a cost effective, and efficient support service
Proactively escalate real or potential problems and issues to the applicable business heads and suggest appropriate remedies
Take direct management responsibility for the Cash Equity Trade Support, Equity Derivatives Trade Support, and the Equity Stock Lending teams (Approx 30 headcount)
Be generally accountable for all of operational issues for the Equity Business in Japan.
Requirements:
Extensive experience (10+ years) with Equities business support in Japan
Strong understanding of equities trading work flow from front to back
Excellent leadership skills and strong, clear and direct communication style
Experience managing large teams (i.e. managing managers)
Proactive attitude and ability to foresee and resolve potential issues before they become problems
Confident personality and ability to present to senior leadership
Fluent bi-lingual skills in Japanese and English are strongly preferred.
For a confidential consideration, please send an up-to-date CV, preferably in a Word Doc format to T2Tokyo.