Vice President, Regulatory Management & Remediation

Vice President, Change Delivery - TDS

Preferred Qualifications:

Ready to be the change at TD Securities? We're an innovator and leader in the Data, Delivery and Innovation. Our legendary customer & colleague experience continues to guide us as we deliver enhanced technology, process and capabilities to support our business & stakeholders. Strategic delivery management is a valued and evolving discipline, ready to take the organization and your career, to new heights.

Job Description:

The TD Securities U.S. Regulatory Management & Remediation team is responsible for the planning, execution and delivery of key regulatory initiatives for our US Wholesale business, building foundational capabilities across our teams and providing strategic oversight into remediation approach and execution.

The team partners closely with senior leaders across TDS, Risk, Legal, HR, Compliance and will work in close alignment with our TDGUS and CUSO operations and governance forums to ensure alignment with integrated remediation activities to our regulators.

This will involve:

• Accountability for leading the end-to-end delivery across all business and technology aspects of the project with a delivery operating model to maximize efficiency, effectiveness and scalability.
• Responsible for key assessments across multiple stakeholders and aligning technology and regulatory objectives into a shared delivery vision.
• Facilitating the breaking down of overall vision and roadmap into component parts that can be executed through Rapid, TD Agile PDLC delivery approaches as appropriate.
• Providing leadership to technology and business partners to turn requirements into delivery with analyses and recommendations for solutions that meet business objectives with in a timely and cost-effective manner.
• Establishing and managing resource plan, issues, risks and financial plans to support the roadmap.
• Anticipating issues, trends and the potential impact and timely resolution of impediments, while effectively managing the program schedule (releases) and financials and ensuring continuing review and prioritization.
• Coordinating with the respective enterprise control partners to appropriately select, engage and manage external service providers as required.
• Staying energized, productive and focused in the face of challenges, ambiguity, change or strenuous demands.
• Demonstrate ability to consistently apply expert judgment with available information when proposing solutions/recommendations.
• Demonstrated ability to formulate cohesive recommendations regarding delivery approach after consultation with key stakeholder groups on estimated effort, resource availability, cross-program dependencies and other implementation constraints.
• Ability to create and foster a cohesive team and promote a positive work environment for all employees.
• Ability to think strategically and possess strong business acumen.
• Proven ability to stay focused under pressure, demonstrating resilience in challenging situations.
• Ability to clearly communicate complex financial concepts and garner consensus on implementation methodology from all key stakeholders.
• Ability to progress on multiple priorities concurrently while navigating unfamiliar territory and ambiguous/evolving circumstances.
• Aptitude for amalgamating and interpreting large volumes of information, identifying key clarifications required, and formulating next steps to proceed.
• Building trust with stakeholder groups and maintain good working relationship with other departments.
• Leading an effective and diverse business team to effectively deliver productivity, quality and innovation.

Job Requirements:

• Knowledge of project delivery methodologies (including PDLC and TD Agile scaling frameworks)
• Strong working knowledge of project management techniques and tools including Microsoft Project, JIRA and Confluence
• Knowledge of Capital Markets
• Knowledge of regulatory requirements
• Ability to apply industry frameworks and techniques
• Passion to succeed, results-oriented
• High attention to detail and ability to articulate and produce presentations for different level of audiences
• Flexible, with an innate ability to "course correct"
• Adaptive communication skills
• Ability to build and motivate teams
• High threshold dealing with ambiguity
• Entrepreneurial mindset
• Drive for continuous improvement
• Ability to influence all parties while driving delivery forward
• Prior experience with delivering major regulatory programs and/or infrastructure implementations is an asset.
• In-depth familiarity with market risk, valuation, data science or accounting concepts obtained through previous experience in a capital markets function.
• High level understanding of financial products and models.
• Prior experience with delivering major regulatory programs and/or infrastructure implementations is an asset.

Education Requirements:

• University degree or equivalent
• CFA or FRM designation an asset

The Vice President, Change Delivery - TDS is aligned with the TDS Delivery Accountability Framework rolled out across TDS and will support the end-to-end delivery of the project's deliverables involving high complexity and many cross-functional and stakeholder dependencies. This function enables efficient and effective program delivery of the dealer's major, cross functional initiatives. TDS Change Delivery reflects a significant evolution of our approach to managing and delivering change in the dealer's largest cross functional initiatives.

Depth & Scope:

• Supports the end-to-end delivery of the project's deliverables involving high complexity and many cross-functional and stakeholder dependencies
• Supports the Change Delivery Leadership/Management in managing a diverse range of stakeholders to meet program requirements and project objectives. Major stakeholders include:
• Trading Business Management (TBM), Market Risk and Model Development (PnL, Risk, VaR), Market Risk Control, Operations/Data Services, Finance, Front Office, Technology and Compliance.
• Provides leadership to technology and business partners to turn requirements into delivery with analyses and recommendations for solutions that meet business objectives with in a timely and cost-effective manner
• Provides timely updates on project status, analyses and findings to senior management and various stakeholders
• Conducts ongoing oversight and review to ensure effective implementation of Change Delivery initiatives through requirement building and stream planning
• Provides support to management by leading stakeholder management activities and communication through stream deliverables
• Understands and manages cross-stream interdependencies
• Assists the PDL with tracking project tasks, dependencies, and requirement gaps (ensuring traction and resolution on all items)
• Identifies and escalates issues to the appropriate individual(s)/group(s) to ensure prompt attention/resolution
• Ensures all infrastructure build activities are supported by adequate documentation
• Provides coaching and direction to junior members of the team

Education & Experience:

• Bachelor's Degree in any field of study required
• 7+ years of prior experience in organizational change management activities
• In-depth understanding and subject matter expertise in self clearing, with experience in Futures preferred
• Prior experience with delivering technology for clearing (self or client) is considered an asset
• Superior understanding of the end-to-end clearing workflow, with in-depth knowledge of the operational aspects
• Superior organizational skills (must be able to identify and track project dependencies & blockers, ensure proper resolution of outstanding items, document meeting minutes and takeaways in a clear and concise manner)
• Established rapport with various stakeholders throughout the bank
• Advanced Excel data manipulation skills (ability to derive findings/conclusions from large datasets and trouble-shoot errors)
• Ability to work on multiple concurrent tasks and manage time effectively
• Flexibility to be able to adapt to unfamiliar, ambiguous or changing conditions
• Demonstrated ability to make sound recommendations for business decisions
• Excellent analytical, problem solving, organizational, and communication skills

Who We Are:

TD Securities offers a wide range of capital markets products and services to corporate, government, and institutional clients who choose us for our innovation, execution, and experience. With more than 6,500 professionals operating out of 40 cities across the globe, we help clients meet their needs today and prepare for tomorrow. Our services include underwriting and distributing new issues, providing trusted advice and industry-leading insight, extending access to global markets, and delivering integrated transaction banking solutions. In 2023, we acquired Cowen Inc., offering our clients access to a premier U.S. equities business and highly-diverse equity research franchise, while growing our strong, diversified investment bank. We are growth-oriented, people-focused, and community-minded. As a team, we work to deliver value for our clients