Responsibilities
Job Description
- Participate in the development of corporate strategy for a small local organization, applying functional expertise to test the viability of the strategy and contributing creative ideas and insights to support the strategy formation process.
- Lead the development and implementation of strategy for an important area of responsibility within a function, anticipating complex issues, challenges, and opportunities and ensuring integration with wider functional strategy.
- Develop tactical plans for optimizing resources and assets being managed within a significant area or department.
- Represent the organization or institution in a variety of industry, institutional, and/or professional forums, boards, and committees, in order to promote the company or institution brand or efforts.
- Focus is on a specific smaller area of the organization, such as a sub-function or division. May involve preparation of presentations and materials for professional partnering meetings, seminars, and conferences.
- Identify and communicate the actions needed to implement the function's strategy and business plan within the business area or department; explain the relationship to the broader organization's mission, vision, and values; motivate people to commit to these tenets and do extraordinary things to achieve local business goals.
- Provide authoritative specialist advice to senior managers at the business unit or regional level to enable the implementation of policy, projects, and change initiatives.
- Develop and propose annual business plans for a given area or department, ensuring alignment with strategy.
- Recommend financial and headcount budgets; propose business targets, for example, revenues or other key performance indicators (KPIs); and schedule key activities/projects, ensuring integration with other elements of the organization.
- Manage budget plans for a department. May involve development or delivery or both.
- Manage and report on performance within the department or area of responsibility; set appropriate performance objectives for direct reports and hold individuals accountable for achieving them; take appropriate corrective action where necessary to ensure the achievement of annual business objectives.
- Contribute to the definition of organization structure by recommending reporting lines, identifying interfaces between elements of the organization, and proposing roles and responsibilities, to align with the corporate structure and organization principles.
- Evaluate the capabilities of staff within the department to identify gaps and prioritize development activities.
- Implement the organization's formal development frameworks within the area of responsibility. Coach and mentor others to support the development of the organization's talent pool.
- Identify and manage stakeholders up to and including management level, finding out their needs, issues, and concerns and reacting to them by leading and coordinating the development of stakeholder engagement plans to support the communication of business information and decisions.
Skills
- Uses expertise to act as organizational authority on planning, organizing, prioritizing and overseeing activities to efficiently meet business objectives.
- Applies expertise to act as the organizational authority on developing appropriate plans or performing necessary actions based on recommendations and requirements.
- Operates as a recognized expert to shift into and out of a mental mindsets associated with assessing the facts and circumstances of the current situation and/or environment and making the appropriate/innovative adjustments to thinking and work habits to thrive in any scenario. Typically known as a subject matter authority.
- Uses expertise to act as organizational authority on strategic planning.
- Uses expertise to act as organizational authority on developing and implementing policies.
- Works independently and provides guidance and training to others on analyzing data trends for use in reports to help guide decision making.
- Uses comprehensive knowledge and skills to act independently while guiding and training others on making sure the organization develops and maintains the culture, values and design it needs to reach its objectives while managing structural change.
- More than five years of development management experience, three years as a developer or architect lead and project manager.
- Understanding of the trading lifecycle from order generation to execution for various security products and how to integrate trading components seamlessly into the trade lifecycle.
- Skilled in Vendor Management, Project Management, Enterprise Implementation, and Application Development.
- Financial services industry experience specifically with trading systems.
Education
Bachelor’s: Computer and Information Science (Required), Bachelor’s: Information Technology, Master's: Computer and Information Science
Work Experience
General Experience – 10 to 15 years
Certifications
Travel
Workstyle
Hybrid
At Raymond James our associates use five guiding behaviors (Develop, Collaborate, Decide, Deliver, Improve) to deliver on the firm's core values of client-first, integrity, independence and a conservative, long-term view.
We Expect Our Associates At All Levels To
- Grow professionally and inspire others to do the same
- Work with and through others to achieve desired outcomes
- Make prompt, pragmatic choices and act with the client in mind
- Take ownership and hold themselves and others accountable for delivering results that matter
- Contribute to the continuous evolution of the firm
At Raymond James – as part of our people-first culture, we honor, value, and respect the uniqueness, experiences, and backgrounds of all of our Associates. When associates bring their best authentic selves, our organization, clients, and communities thrive. The Company is an equal opportunity employer and makes all employment decisions on the basis of merit and business needs.
