Operations Delivery Lead
Seccl
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Bath • 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
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💰 £50,000 - £65,000 per year
Job Level
Senior
About the role
- Owning end-to-end trading operations across funds and equities, ensuring smooth processing from order placement through settlement and reporting
- Overseeing execution and settlement across key partners (e.g., Calastone, Winterflood Business Services, CREST), managing breaks, rejects and unmatched positions
- Running exception management, triaging issues quickly, escalating appropriately, and driving problems through to resolution with clear ownership
- Owning fund conversions; income to accumulation, clean-to-cleaner processes, off-platform transfers, keeping accuracy high and disruption low for clients and partners
- Acting as escalation point for trading incidents, coordinating response, communications, root cause analysis and lasting fixes
- Maintaining oversight of post-trade reporting and monitoring (transaction reporting, best execution monitoring, financial crime monitoring)
- Leading daily operational readiness across AM/PM cycles, ensuring monitoring, inboxes and dashboards are completed and prioritised
- Partnering with Product/Engineering to improve workflows, automate where possible, enhance controls and reduce operational risk at scale
- Coaching and developing the team, setting standards and building a culture of ownership and client-first delivery
Requirements
- You have senior experience leading trading operations teams delivering high-volume fund and equity trading
- You have owned trading controls end-to-end across dealing, settlement and post-trade, with strong risk and escalation judgement
- You understand how FCA regulation shapes real trading operations - including CASS, MiFID II and COBS, plus strong books & records integrity
- You thrive in complexity and exceptions: calm, decisive, and client-focused when issues arise
- You have a track record of delivering improvements by partnering with Product/Engineering/Risk to strengthen controls and enable scale
- You bring a process-driven mindset and genuine love of continuous improvement and operational excellence
- You communicate confidently and influence stakeholders across teams and external providers
- You ideally have experience with Calastone fund routing and CREST operational tooling (e.g., CREST GUI)
Benefits
- A salary between £50,000 and £65,000 dependant on experience + reviewed annually
- 27 days holiday + bank holidays (some can be flexible) + day off on your birthday + three days (full time) per year for Dependant leave
- Two volunteering days per year
- Option to work abroad for up to six weeks a year
- Secclbrate - our recognition programme that offers a mix of flexible rewards including extra pay, additional holiday and increased learning budget
- Length of service award – one month paid sabbatical at eight years
- 6% employer pension contribution, and life assurance
- Private medical insurance with AXA Health
- Enhanced Parental leave
- MacBook and up to £500 home office set up budget
- £750 per person learning budget
- Health and wellbeing initiatives including free therapy via Wellness Cloud, mental health support via Headspace
- Strong financial wellbeing focus including access to Octopus Money, Octopus Share Incentive Plan and will writing offering via Octopus Legacy
- Perkbox – Flexi-points giving you a range of discounts and perks including free weekly coffee, gym and retail discounts
- Access to initiatives like Cycle to Work and Octopus Electric Vehicle Leasing
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
trading operationsfund conversionsexception managementpost-trade reportingrisk managementfinancial crime monitoringbest execution monitoringprocess improvementoperational excellencehigh-volume trading
Soft skills
leadershipproblem-solvingcommunicationinfluencingclient-focuseddecisivenesscoachingownershipteam developmentcollaboration