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Raymond James · 5 months ago

VP, Operations, Cost Basis & Tax Reporting

Southfield, Michigan - United States

Full-time

Hybrid

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

10+ years exp

Raymond James is seeking a strategic Vice President to lead its Cost Basis and Tax Reporting Operations. This high-impact leadership role involves shaping enterprise-wide strategy, driving operational excellence, and ensuring regulatory compliance in a dynamic financial environment. The VP will guide high-performing teams and lead initiatives to enhance reporting accuracy and modernize infrastructure.

BankingFinancial ServicesInformation TechnologyInsuranceWealth Management

Growth Opportunities

Responsibilities

Take overall responsibility for designing, developing, and delivering the organization's operational strategy and outcomes

Take overall responsibility for setting and approving area budgets that achieve organizational strategy

Manage and report on business performance; hold direct reports accountable for achievement of business plans, and take corrective action where necessary to ensure the achievement of business objectives, balancing the need to deliver short-term business objectives with the longer-term delivery of stakeholder value

Lead the development of annual and longer-term business plans for a significant function, ensuring alignment with strategy; quantify business outcomes, i.e., key performance indicators (KPIs) and resource budgets (financial and headcount); and ensure integration of key activities or projects across the organization

Set and communicate the strategy, along with the broad actions needed to implement it, for achieving the organization's mission, vision, and values within a function; inspire a large or diverse workforce to commit to these tenets and do extraordinary things to achieve the organization's business goals

Identify and manage stakeholders up to and including top management level, finding out their needs, issues, and concerns and reacting to them by leading and coordinating the development of stakeholder engagement plans to support the communication of business information and decisions

Develop the strategy for a significant area of responsibility, such as a function, anticipating complex issues, challenges, and opportunities. Ensure the strategy is successfully implemented and meets medium-term business needs

Represent the organization or institution in a variety of industry, institutional, and/or professional forums, boards, and committees, in order to promote the company or institution brand or efforts. Focus is on a specific area of the organization, such as a function or department. May involve preparation of presentations and materials for professional partnering meetings, seminars, and conferences

Identify the capabilities needed to meet the current and emerging business needs of a significant business area. Evaluate current capabilities, identify gaps, and prioritize development activities. Motivate others to develop their capabilities and fulfill their personal potential. Build capabilities elsewhere in the organization through mentoring and other informal methods

Define the detailed organization structure for a business area to align with corporate principles, define the relationship between elements of the organization, and define the responsibilities of senior managers, to enable the organization to achieve its business objectives

Monitors regulatory compliance with internal and external groups including auditors, FINRA, IRS, SEC and others

Qualification

Strategic planningCostingBudgetingRegulatory complianceProject managementFinancial markets knowledgePerformance managementStakeholder engagementContinuous improvementVerbal communicationTeam leadershipMentoring

Required

Bachelor's: Accounting

Bachelor's: Business Administration

Bachelor's: Finance

High School (HS) (Required)

Manager Experience - 10 to 15 years

SIE required or ability to obtain within 120 days (as required by FINRA), provided that an exemption or grandfathering cannot be applied

Series 99 and Series 7 required, or ability to obtain within 120 days (as required by FINRA). Persons holding Series 6, 7, 17, 37 or 38 or those who hold principal-level registrations: Series 4, 9/10, 14, 16, 23, 24, 26, 27, 28, 51, and 53 would be qualified to register as an Operations Professional (Series 99) without passing the examination