Operations Lead: Build & Run Securities Settlement

Employment; Muscat; On-site; OMR 40,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

Employment in Oman is hiring an Operations Lead to design the operational function from a blank sheet and then operate it in Run. The role spans settlement, registry maintenance, and asset servicing with end-to-end ownership.

You will build team structure, procedures, runbooks, and escalation paths, manage key vendor relationships, and drive go-live readiness for a new central securities depository.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in securities or financial market infrastructure operations.
• Hands-on corporate actions operations across events.
• Proven ability to design or redesign an operational function with procedures, runbooks, and training.
• Track record of operating under regulatory expectations for an FMI or securities-services business.
• Experience managing operational relationships with custodians, settlement banks, and exchanges.
• Direct experience in a CSD/ICSD or custody bank is a plus; SWIFT familiarity.

Responsibilities

• Design the end-to-end operations function from scratch.
• Own settlement input, matching, processing, movement, finality and exception handling.
• Own registry maintenance: accounts, amendments, position management, and statements.
• Oversee asset servicing and corporate actions workflow and reconciliation.
• Design onboarding and day-to-day participant services.
• Identify and mitigate first-line operational risk; manage incident processes.
• Manage relationships with custodians, settlement banks, exchanges, SWIFT and paying agents.
• Ensure go-live readiness: trained team, runbooks, dress rehearsals.
• Line-manage Operations Analyst, Corporate Actions Specialist, and wider team.

Skills

Securities operations

Corporate actions operations

Operational design & build

Regulatory compliance for FMI

Stakeholder management

SWIFT messaging

Tools

SWIFT

Job description

Employment in Oman is hiring an Operations Lead to design the operational function from a blank sheet and then operate it in Run. The role spans settlement, registry maintenance, and asset servicing with end-to-end ownership.

You will build team structure, procedures, runbooks, and escalation paths, manage key vendor relationships, and drive go-live readiness for a new central securities depository.