SAM IT&OPs; Operations Manager
Country: Spain
**WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING**
**Santander Asset Management is looking for a IT&OPs; Operations Manager, based in our Madrid office.**
**WHY YOU SHOULD CONSIDER THIS OPPORTUNITY**
**Santander Asset Management **is a global structure with strong local roots in Europe and Latin America. With presence in 11 countries, we have assets of more than €175 billion* working for institutional clients, individual clients, and intermediaries such as Santander banks in all geographies. Our knowledge in Latin America makes us real experts on the region, allowing us to provide you with unique opportunities to invest. Our philosophy is to manage our investments to capture maximum upside but also downside protection. We offer a comprehensive range of investment solutions, from investment funds to illiquid assets, to provide right answers to your needs.
Santander is proud of being an organization where there are equal opportunities regardless of gender identity, culture and disability. Our mission is to contribute to help more people and business prosper. We embrace a strong risk culture and all of our professionals at all levels are expected to take a proactive and responsible approach toward risk management.
**WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING**
As a IT&OPs; Operations Manager, you will ensure the end-to-end operational activities to complete the investment cycle until the NAV is published
We need someone like you to help us in different fronts:
- Global ITOP operational strategy for mutual funds.
- Coordination of Middle and Back Office teams in their daily processes.
- Internal governance model management with all local units in order to monitoring issues, support and value adding to local units along with Santander Bank.
- General model definition to be implemented locally and its follow up, policies and process definition.
- Financial and Planning: Coordination and consolidation of the budgeting process, elaborating and control of global budget along with the rest of the units for the operational part.
- Providers and contracts management: oversight and governance model with the providers definition, implementation and follow up.
EXPERIENCE
- Proved management habilties to lead new a team at Global level.
- Good knowledge of capital markets and financial products.
EDUCATION
- University degree in Economics, Engineering, Physics or Maths.
SKILLS & KNOWLEDGE
- Proved management abilities to lead new a team at Global level.
- Good knowledge of capital markets and financial products.
- Highly organized and able to work to deadlines and manage competing priorities under significant time pressures.
- Proactive, strong reasoning and problem-solving skills, able to develop pragmatic solutions to complex problems.
- Confidence to lead large projects.
- Talent development, trust ensuring, complex operations management, action oriented, planning and organization, team work.
Controls the daily workflow of the back office operations and oversees that platforms are working in a desirable way. Coordinates with all involved parties to ensure on-time delivery of the different operations and processes. Ensures accurate services' dimensioning and planning. Helps with specific operation-support related enquiries and reaches out to other departments when needed.
**Idiomas**:
- Spanish