Equities Business Manager

About Us

Jefferies Financial Group Inc. (''Jefferies,'' ''we,'' ''us'' or ''our'') is a U.S.-headquartered global full service, integrated investment banking and securities firm. Our largest subsidiary, Jefferies LLC, a U.S. broker-dealer, was founded in the U.S. in 1962 and our first international operating subsidiary, Jefferies International Limited, a U.K. broker-dealer, was established in the U.K. in 1986. Our strategy focuses on continuing to build out our investment banking effort, enhancing our capital markets businesses and further developing our Leucadia Asset Management alternative asset management platform. We offer deep sector expertise across a full range of products and services in investment banking, equities, fixed income, asset and wealth management in the Americas, Europe and the Middle East and Asia.

Key responsibilities

• The portfolio of work will consist of projects of various sizes from tactical solutions to strategic programs. Core responsibilities include:
• Drive and support strategic operational and business initiatives focusing on new business development, new product expansion, operational efficiency initiatives and regulatory agenda
• Provide governance and program structure including regular updates at all levels following the project life cycle
• Plan, manage, delegate, communicate and monitor projects in all stages from initiation through to completion
• Develop and maintain strong partnership, collaboration and engagement with stakeholders
• Analyze and define solutions against strategic objectives, requirements and work prioritization
• Manage and lead projects against agreed scope, time, cost/resource constraints with an agile mindset
• Create and maintain necessary project documentation including business cases, project plans, presentations and other necessary documentation
• Test management and coordination

Qualification

• Minimum years of relevant experience in either of the following is required: End to end project management /change management in the financial services industry (with a focus on Equities) OR Prior experience in Markets Operations (Markets, FX, Equities etc.)
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent
• Excellent project management skills including project initiation, control and governance, tracking and best practices
• Strong interpersonal skills with ability to build relationships, influence and manage stakeholders across different seniority levels
• Ability to manage multi projects
• Identify and develop opportunities to partner on strategic programs to deliver change
• Ability to face off to demanding stakeholders, managing their expectations
• Understanding of FICC business and derivatives settlement knowledge would be an advantage
• A strong sense of ownership and responsibility
• A self motivated individual, able to deliver with minimal supervision, whilst working effectively in a fast paced environment
• Excellent analytical, problem solving and time management skills
• Strong MS office skills including excel, power point, word, visio will be an advantage
• We're a global company whose primary business language is English and so fluency in spoken and written English is required
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent

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