Senior Vice President, Corporate Actions Manager

Senior Vice President

At BNY, our culture empowers you to grow and succeed. As a leading global financial services company at the center of the world's financial system we touch nearly 20% of the world's investible assets. Every day around the globe, our 50,000+ employees bring the power of their perspective to the table to create solutions with our clients that benefit businesses, communities and people everywhere.

We continue to be a leader in the industry, awarded as a top home for innovators and for creating an inclusive workplace. Through our unique ideas and talents, together we help make money work for the world. This is what #LifeAtBNY is all about.

We're seeking a future team member for the role of Senior Vice President to join our Corporate Actions/Income team. This role is located in Manchester, UK and will be working in a hybrid capacity. (4 days a week in the office).

In this role, you'll make an impact in the following ways:

• Manage and provides direction to a team of c. 100 business technology liaison staff supporting the technical needs of the business area.
• Manages initiatives to analyse complex business problems to be solved with improved systems, providing enhancements and recommendations as needed.
• Provides technical expertise in identifying, evaluating and developing systems and procedures that are cost-effective and meet user requirements.
• Works with business areas to identify opportunities for technical improvements.
• Recruits, directs, motivates and develops staff, maximizing their individual contribution, their professional growth and their ability to function effectively with their colleagues as a team.
• Manages a team of professionals including coaching, performance management and resource allocation.
• Responsible for the achievement of team goals and objectives, talent management and supervision of team members.

In this role, you'll oversee the below tasks:

• Delivery:
  • Collaborate with the Product Owner, Business, SMEs, and End Users to gather and develop story level requirements in JIRA that allows the Development Team to deliver consistent level of high-quality code.
  • Required to participate in all agile /sprint activities (planning, backlog refinement, retrospective, standups, and design)
• Requirements (Stories)
  • Validate stories with cross functional stakeholders, including Product Owner, Business, SMEs, and End Users to gather requirements and desired outcomes.
• Testing/Implementation
  • Review test cases with testers to ensure test results meet expected outcomes as defined in acceptance criteria.
  • Review testing failures to identify potential missed / new requirements or defects.
• Production/ Operational Readiness
  • Prepare and circulate release notes, as a part of operational readiness
  • Support other Ops readiness activities as delegated by Product Owner

To be successful in this role, we're seeking the following:

• Technical skills:
  • Agile methodology
  • Project Management using JIRA & Confluence
  • Advance knowledge in Microsoft Excel & PowerPoint
  • Business Analytics using Microsoft Power BI & Tableau
• Business acumen / knowledge of:
  • Asset Servicing.
  • Custody Product Knowledge, specifically:
    • Corporate Action and Income product from Custody business perspective
    • Proxy product from Custody business perspective
    • Class Action product from Custody business perspective
• Research skills
• Critical thinking skills
• People / Interpersonal skills
  • Conflict Management: Should be able to manage conflicts efficiently while working on Projects.
  • Stakeholder management: Should have strong experience in managing senior stakeholders as part of Projects.
• Communication skills: Strong written and verbal communication skills required.
• Negotiation skills - As part of refinement negation may be required between different stakeholders to get to the final agreed requirement.

At BNY, our culture speaks for itself. Here's a few of our awards:

• America's Most Innovative Companies, Fortune, 2024
• World's Most Admired Companies, Fortune 2024
• Human Rights Campaign Foundation, Corporate Equality Index, 100% score, 2023-2024
• Best Places to Work for Disability Inclusion , Disability: IN - 100% score, 2023-2024
• Most Just Companies", Just Capital and CNBC, 2024
• Dow Jones Sustainability Indices, Top performing company for Sustainability, 2024
• Bloomberg's Gender Equality Index (GEI), 2023

Our Benefits and Rewards:

BNY offers highly competitive compensation, benefits, and wellbeing programs rooted in a strong culture of excellence and our pay-for-performance philosophy. We provide access to flexible global resources and tools for your life's journey. Focus on your health, foster your personal resilience, and reach your financial goals as a valued member of our team, along with generous paid leaves, including paid volunteer time, that can support you and your family through moments that matter.

BNY is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer - Underrepresented racial and ethnic groups/Females/Individuals with Disabilities/Protected Veterans.