Securities Processing Team Lead - Ops & Impact

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC); Jersey City (NJ); On-site; USD 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Pension / Retirement benefits

Paid Time Off

Job summary

DTCC is seeking a Securities Processing Senior Associate in New Jersey to oversee daily operations, manage a team, and drive process improvements. You will track performance, ensure quality, and escalate issues while coaching staff to enhance performance and efficiency.

The role focuses on supporting certificate custody services and ensuring client needs are met with timely responses and adherence to controls. Leadership, collaboration, and process discipline are essential to success at DTCC.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 6 years of related experience.
• Bachelor's degree preferred or equivalent experience.

Responsibilities

• Supervises day-to-day activities of a designated team. Ensures strict adherence to procedures and critical timeframes; ability to manage competing priorities. Directly manages people.
• Strong evaluator with focus on development of others to perform by providing ongoing feedback and by providing opportunities to learn through formal and informal methods.
• Identifies and mitigates risk by having knowledge of department controls with the ability to spot key opportunities and identify root cause issues.
• Maintains a steadfast focus on meeting the needs/requests of our internal and external clients, including responding to inquiries timely and accurately, resolving issues promptly.
• Understands and applies principles, procedures, requirements, regulations, and policies related to specialized business functions. Writes/maintains procedures and job aids. Identifies procedure gaps, updates procedures to fill gaps as directed.
• Demonstrates effective communication skills, active engagement in meetings, and displays curiosity to learn and grow; accepts feedback given and applies to role. Presents information clearly while speaking in small to mid-sized groups .
• Assists in benchmark tracking, audit follow-up, compliance, and risk management activities.
• Participates and owns team impacting projects and initiatives.
• Aligns risk and control processes into day to day responsibilities to monitor and mitigate risk; escalates appropriately

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Job description

DTCC is seeking a Securities Processing Senior Associate in New Jersey to oversee daily operations, manage a team, and drive process improvements. You will track performance, ensure quality, and escalate issues while coaching staff to enhance performance and efficiency.

The role focuses on supporting certificate custody services and ensuring client needs are met with timely responses and adherence to controls. Leadership, collaboration, and process discipline are essential to success at DTCC.