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COO, Treasury Services

Bring your ideas. Make history.

BNY Mellon offers an exciting array of future-forward careers at the intersection of business, finance, and technology. We are one of the world's top asset management and banking firms that manages trillions of dollars in assets, custody and/or administration. Known as the “bank of banks” - 97% of the world’s top banks work with us as we lead and serve our customers into the new era of digital.

With over 238 years of rich history and industry firsts, BNY Mellon has been built upon our proven ability to evolve, lead, and drive new ideas at every turn. Today, we’re approximately 50,000 employees across 35 countries with a culture that empowers you to grow, take risks, experiment and be yourself. This is what #LifeAtBNYMellon is all about.

The TS COO is the key owner of driving business and operational excellence including business operations, transformation, governance (compliance, risk, audit). Leads projects on specific far-reaching and strategic initiatives. Advises executives in areas such as investment prioritization, governance and controls, strategic change, operational issue, budgeting and finance, workforce planning, and leading action to ensure compliance with regulatory/legislative requirements, and location strategies.

In this role, you’ll make an impact in the following ways:

• Drives continuous improvement through focus on service excellence, operational, regulatory, risk and control enhancements.
• Provides management reporting, dashboards, business analytics, competitive and market analysis and guidance to support improved growth, efficiency and profitability.
• Oversees first line risk, and governance, including KYC, and Third Party Governance (TMG)
• Own/execute on data & client experience strategy, doing the analysis, partnering across the firm ensuring Treasury Service’s needs are met
• Delivery on organization’s People Experience strategy ensuring diverse, innovative, and inclusive culture
• Day-to-day organizational administration planning, organizational changes with HR (cost codes, MU Hierarchy, approval matrices)
• Owns Business Strategy, driving sustainable business growth and improved margins.
• Drives business transformation and cross-Treasury Services initiatives working with business heads, operations, technology, finance, etc.
• Provides strategic oversight and guidance on the development of key performance indicators; serves as strategic advisor in goal setting activities for the business.
• Manage the timely completion of all Risk Mandated Frameworks, includes representation on BNYM committees
• Proactively identifies and oversees implementation of strategic process improvement and changes and removes roadblocks
• Prepare and lead Monthly/ Quarterly Business Reviews with executive team and Board
• Delivery on expense management, workforce planning, location strategy, partnering with Engineering, Operations, Finance, HR and Business Heads; including Engineering and Operations workforce mgmt. and cap planning
• Oversees and drives all enterprise transformation as related to Treasury Services business, e.g., Catalyst, Products and Platforms, Digitization, Location Strategy, etc.

To be successful in this role, we’re seeking the following:

• Ability to balance extremely high attention to detail and accuracy with tight deadlines on critically meaningful work
• Highly collaborative individual who can influence multiple internal partners to drive results in a matrixed environment
• Commercial focus on growing the bottom-line while mitigating/managing risk
• Ability to inspire others to action and able to draw on broader teams to deliver a superior outcome for clients and the firm
• Strong leadership: calm presence and ability to instill confidence in key stakeholders, internally and externally
• A passion for the business, ‘drive to win’ and outperformance mindset
• Business-driven focus on operational excellence and improved business performance
• Intellectual curiosity: desire to constantly learn and continuously improve
• Strength in executive level collaboration
• Experience in transformation and large-scale project management
• Global experience: broad and in -depth international market and cultural perspective

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in business or a related discipline, or equivalent work experience required; MBA or other advanced degree preferred
• Extensive Management/Leadership experience
• Minimum of fifteen (15) years’ experience within the Financial Services industry
• Recognized as expert in industry
• Possess established relationships within/across industry

At BNY Mellon, our inclusive culture speaks for itself. Here’s a few of our awards:

• Best Places to Work for Disability Inclusion , Disability: IN – 100% score
• Human Rights Campaign Foundation, 100% score Corporate Equality Index
• CDP’s Climate Change ‘A List’
• 100 Best Workplaces for Innovators, Fast Company
• Fortune World’s Most Admired Companies & Top 20 for Diversity and Inclusion
• Bloomberg’s Gender Equality Index (GEI)

Our Benefits

BNY Mellon offers highly competitive compensation, benefits, and wellbeing programs rooted in a strong culture of excellence and our pay-for-performance philosophy. We provide access to flexible global resources and tools for your life’s journey. Focus on your health, foster your personal resilience, and reach your financial goals as a valued member of our team, along with generous paid leaves that can support you and your family through moments that matter.

BNY Mellon is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer - Underrepresented racial and ethnic groups/Females/Individuals with Disabilities/Protected Veterans.

About Us

For over 230 years, the people of BNY Mellon have been at the forefront of finance, expanding the financial markets while supporting investors throughout the investment lifecycle. BNY Mellon can act as a single point of contact for clients looking to create, trade, hold, manage, service, distribute or restructure investments & safeguards nearly one-fifth of the world's financial assets. BNY Mellon remains one of the safest, most trusted and admired companies. Every day our employees make their mark by helping clients better manage and service their financial assets around the world. Whether providing financial services for institutions, corporations or individual investors, clients count on the people of BNY Mellon across time zones and in 35 countries and more than 100 markets. It's the collective ambition, innovative thinking and exceptionally focused client service paired with a commitment to doing what is right that continues to set us apart. Make your mark: bnymellon.com/careers.

Organization

BNY Mellon Treasury Services understands our clients face profound challenges as they move, access and apply their cash and associated business information on a global basis. Here's where BNY Mellon Treasury Services can help by blending our award-winning cash management and global payments services into customized solutions in three strategic areas: Supply chain management - Access a suite of receivables, payables and trade finance solutions that can help reduce costs, increase efficiency and strengthen control. Client Access and Liquidity Services - Active and passive cash investment strategies combined with innovative transaction and reporting tools. Global Payments Services - High-quality, 24-hour processing and customer service for international payments, enabling our clients to make cross-border payments anytime, anywhere in more than 100 currencies.