QNB3758 - Senior Vice President Asset Management Middle Office
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About the Role
QNB Group is seeking a Senior Vice President to lead the Asset Management Middle Office, overseeing the complete investment trade lifecycle. The role manages a team of traders, trade support analysts, and performance analysts, ensuring accurate execution support, reconciliation, and data governance.
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Responsibilities
- Oversee the trade lifecycle across all asset classes, including execution support, reconciliation, compliance checks, cash coordination, and performance analytics
- Lead and manage the Traders, Trade Support Analysts, and Performance & Risk Analysts to ensure operational excellence and role clarity
- Define and enforce trade support policies, ensuring adherence to regulatory standards, internal mandates, and audit controls
- Establish and monitor key performance indicators (KPIs) and service level agreements (SLAs) across post trade functions
- Act as escalation point for trade exceptions, settlement failures, or compliance issues affecting execution or reporting
- Ensure proper management of securities lending & borrowing (SLB), margin, and collateral processes across portfolios and instruments
- Drive digitization, automation, and continuous improvement initiatives across trade and reporting workflows
- Manage relationships with Booking Center clients to align on execution flows, documentation, and cross border trade coordination
- Coordinate with compliance, fund admin, and custody to ensure integrity of trade support and exception workflows
- Implement KPI’s and best practices for Senior Vice President, Asset Management Middle Office
- Promote cost consciousness and efficiency to minimise cost, avoid waste, and optimise benefits for the bank
- Ensure full compliance with internal policies and external regulations including AML/CTF, sanctions, trade reporting, and trading mandates
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in finance, Economics, Business, or related field
- CFA Level 2 or above preferred
- Minimum of 15 years of experience in trade operations or middle office roles, including at least 5 years in a leadership capacity within asset management or institutional trading teams
- Experience overseeing multi asset trade support operations, Order Management System platforms, reconciliation, and SLB/collateral processes
- Exposure to regulatory environments (e.g., MiFID II, QFC, QCB, Cayman Islands, UCITS) and audit frameworks
- Strong command of the trade lifecycle across equities, fixed income, and derivatives
- Experience managing multi regional workflows, custody models, and FX coordination
- Expertise in order management and trade matching systems (e.g., Bloomberg AIM, Aladdin, Charles River IMS)
- Leadership in operational risk control, KPI/SLA governance, and issue escalation
- Excellent communication, decision making, and cross functional leadership abilities
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Job Summary
- The Senior Vice President, Asset Management Middle Office / Head of Trade Support & Data is required to oversee the complete investment trade lifecycle and department across QNB Asset Management.
- The role ensures accurate, timely, and compliant execution support, trade reconciliation, performance analytics, post trade controls, and data governance.
- The incumbent leads a multi functional team consisting of Traders, Trade Support Analysts, and Performance & Risk Analysts, and is accountable for service delivery, exception management, and workflow optimization.
- The position also plays a key role in managing internal and cross border relationships, particularly with Booking Center clients.
Main Responsibilities
- Oversee the trade lifecycle across all asset classes, including execution support, reconciliation, compliance checks, cash coordination, and performance analytics
- Lead and manage the Traders, Trade Support Analysts, and Performance & Risk Analysts to ensure operational excellence and role clarity
- Define and enforce trade support policies, ensuring adherence to regulatory standards, internal mandates, and audit controls
- Establish and monitor key performance indicators (KPIs) and service level agreements (SLAs) across post trade functions to drive efficiency and service quality
- Act as escalation point for trade exceptions, settlement failures, or compliance issues affecting execution or reporting
- Ensure proper management of securities lending & borrowing (SLB), margin, and collateral processes across portfolios and instruments
- Drive digitization, automation, and continuous improvement initiatives across trade and reporting workflows
- Manage relationships with Booking Center clients to align on execution flows, documentation, and cross border trade coordination
- Coordinate with compliance, fund admin, and custody to ensure integrity of trade support and exception workflows
- Implement KPI’s and best practices for Senior Vice President, Asset Management Middle Office
- Promote cost consciousness and efficiency and enhance productivity, to minimise cost, avoid waste, and optimise benefits for the bank.
- Act within the limits of the powers delegated to the incumbent and delegate authority to the respective staff and monitor exercise of the same.
Education And Experience Requirements
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in finance, Economics, Business, or related field
- CFA Level 2 or above preferred
- Minimum of 15 years of experience in trade operations or middle office roles, including at least 5 years in a leadership capacity within asset management or institutional trading teams
- Experience overseeing multi asset trade support operations, Order Management System platforms, reconciliation, and SLB/collateral processes
- Exposure to regulatory environments (e.g., MiFID II, QFC, QCB, Cayman Islands, UCITS) and audit frameworks
- Strong command of the trade lifecycle across equities, fixed income, and derivatives
- Experience managing multi regional workflows, custody models, and FX coordination
- Expertise in order management and trade matching systems (e.g., Bloomberg AIM, Aladdin, Charles River IMS)
- Leadership in operational risk control, KPI/SLA governance, and issue escalation
- Excellent communication, decision making, and cross functional leadership abilities
Additional Notes
- Note: you will be required to attach the following: Resume/CV, Copy of Passport or QID, Copy of Education Certificate
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