Cross Asset Strategic Initiatives & Automation Lead

Cross Asset Strategic Initiatives & Automation Lead

We are seeking a highly motivated Cross-Asset Strategic Initiatives & Automation Lead to drive transformation initiatives across Metals, FX Cash, and Money Market businesses. This role sits at the intersection of business strategy, platform migration, process automation, and governance, with a strong mandate to reduce operational risk, eliminate manual processes, and modernize workflows through strategic platforms and AI-enabled tooling.

The successful candidate will partner closely with Front Office, Operations, Technology, Risk, and Finance to deliver cross-asset efficiencies, support the FXMM migration to TWS / Murex MX.3, and accelerate automation using Copilot, Power Automate, and related AI tools, while ensuring strong governance and control frameworks.

Key Responsibilities

Cross-Asset Strategic Initiatives

• Own and drive strategic initiatives across Metals, FX Cash, and Money Market, ensuring alignment with broader platform and operating-model objectives.
• Act as a central coordinator across multiple workstreams, prioritizing initiatives based on risk reduction, efficiency gains, and strategic value.
• Develop clear business cases, roadmaps, and execution plans for cross-asset initiatives.

Metals Transformation & Automation

• Lead delivery of automation opportunities identified across physical metals operations, including transaction capture, reconciliations, invoicing, reporting, interest calculations, and static data processes.
• Partner with Technology and Operations to move manual processes into system-driven or straight-through workflows (Endur, IMS, downstream platforms).
• Track benefits realization (time saved, risk reduction, STP uplift) and ensure initiatives progress from concept through implementation.

FX Cash & Money Market Migration Support

• Play a key role in the ION WSS 5.0 → TWS / Murex MX.3 migration for FX Cash and Money Market products.
• Support migration planning, data mapping, operating-model changes, and phased rollout execution.
• Coordinate across FO, MO, BO, and Technology teams to ensure readiness, testing coverage, and smooth cutovers.
• Assist in defining future-state workflows that align FX, MM, and Commodities onto a unified cross-asset platform.

AI-Driven Automation & Tooling

• Identify and implement automation opportunities using Microsoft Copilot, Power Automate, and related AI tools.
• Build lightweight solutions to streamline reporting, controls, reconciliations, approvals, and data movement.
• Act as a bridge between business users and technology teams to rapidly prototype and scale automation ideas.

Governance, Controls & Documentation

• Own and execute governance-related activities across the group, including: Logical access reviews and entitlement governance, BMA and control attestations, SOP creation, maintenance, and rationalization, Audit, risk, and regulatory readiness support.
• Ensure processes are well-documented, auditable, and aligned with internal policy expectations.
• Serve as a key contact for control, risk, and audit stakeholders.

Required Key Skills & Experience

• Strong experience in Capital Markets Operations, Product Control, or Front-to-Back transformation.
• Proven track record delivering cross-asset initiatives involving multiple stakeholders.
• Hands-on experience with process automation and workflow optimization.
• Strong understanding of FX, Money Market, and/or Commodities (Metals) products.
• Experience working with or alongside major trading platforms (e.g., Murex, Endur, Calypso, TWS).
• Demonstrated ability to manage governance, controls, and documentation in a regulated environment.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to communicate to VP–MD level.

Preferred

• Direct experience supporting platform migrations or large-scale system transformations.
• Familiarity with Copilot, Power Automate, Power Platform, or similar automation tools.
• Exposure to ISO 20022, settlement flows, confirmations, or regulatory reporting.
• Comfort operating in ambiguous environments with evolving priorities.

What Success Looks Like

• Material reduction in manual processing and operational risk across Metals.
• Tangible progress and support for the FXMM migration to Murex MX.3.
• Scaled use of AI-enabled automation tools across the group.
• Clear, consistent governance with strong audit and control outcomes.
• A trusted strategic partner to business, operations, and technology leadership.

Key skills/competency

• Capital Markets
• Process Automation
• Strategic Initiatives
• Operational Risk Management
• FX & Money Market Products
• Murex MX.3
• Power Automate
• Microsoft Copilot
• Governance & Controls
• Platform Migration