ESES Chief Operating Officer

Division : ESES

Euroclear is the world’s leading provider of domestic and cross border settlement and related services for bond, equity, fund and derivative transactions. It has its headquarter in Brussels, Belgium and provides securities services to financial institutions in more than 90 countries.

ESES is the largest CSD connected to T2S, offering Central Bank money in Europe, representing around 30% of the Euroclear Group assets under custody. ESES is shifting from a historical domestic focus to a pan-European positioning, necessitating the acquisition of new capabilities, notably to serve international clients and to further expand the admission of international securities.

Your role as Chief Operating Officer

Heading the ESES Operational teams (about 150 staff members) for the three ESES CSDs of Belgium, France and The Netherlands you are responsible for running :

• The operational factory covering Asset Servicing, Issuers services and Settlement activities. Three direct reports and six local team leaders are part of your business line team management.
• The department Project, Testing and Business Support department organized in an Agile Tribe divided over 3 different teams.
• The internal control unit and business resilience team which aims at maintaining Operations resilience and giving the assurance level regarding the control environment.

You lead your teams in delivering service excellence and ensure that service continuity is consistently tested and effective to prevent service outage at ESES.

You maintain the appropriate control environment according to Regulatory obligations in line with the first line of defence role and responsibility and internal policies.

You lead the roll-out of new services and products in ESES Operations teams and external stakeholders aiming at ensuring smooth implementation of changes without business disruption.

You are delegated to make any appropriate decisions about the domains under your responsibility within pre-approved budgets and ESES risk appetite.

You proactively identify opportunities and lead changes to improve functions, organization, processes and controls.

You lead the human resources topics related to staffing skills, gender diversity, climate survey, organizational changes in your business line and in close relationship with the Division of Human resources, in line with budget guidelines :

• Translating the corporate strategy into concrete actions with the appropriate priorities for team members,
• Ensuring the two-way communication between teams members and management team.

You provide specific input to mid and long term operating plans for Operations and you contribute in the realisation of the ESES Performance Objectives.

You drive or contribute to transversal divisional and corporate initiatives with a clear focus on the roll out of the ESES and Euroclear Group strategy.

You build network of internal relationships across the organization to deliver across domains, reinforce synergies and share best practices.

You chair the Risk and Operating Committee, the ESES Silver team (business continuity), being member of the cross silver team at group level.

You are ESES Crisis Manager at T2S level representing ESES in decision making processes according to T2S documentation (MOP) and Euroclear resilience/contingency procedures.

You are the preferred interlocutor vis a vis the Regulators/Authorities for Operational and resilience matters.

Your role as member of the ESES Management Committees

You represent the ESES Management Committees and maybe asked to manage ad hoc missions.

You actively contribute to the decisions of the Committees and ensure the sponsoring of ESA divisions you have been appointed to.

You participate and contribute to the Board Committees especially with regards to risks, audits and compliance matters in full respect of Budget and profitability guidelines.

You are responsible to the Board in reaching performance Management Committees objectives that have been allocated to Operations.

Your Profile

• Operational experience combining management of teams, Lean background, budgets and resources management;
• Passionate about managing and motivating people;
• Strong Leadership and excellent interpersonal skills;
• Strong collaborative approach and excellent team player in a matrix operating model;
• Strong controls, risk and compliance mindset;
• Communication skills : clear and motivating communication;
• Senior representation (Clients, Regulators, Internal Group representation…)
• Strong Decision making capability;
• Strong inter-cultural sensitivity;
• Ability to negotiate in complex conditions;
• Strategic and innovation skills to lead the upcoming changes.