Vice President, Post-Trade, Market Structure (12 months Contract)
On-siteOnè, Veneto, Italy
Job Summary
Lead strategic platform and market infrastructure initiatives for the Core Climate ecosystem, managing the full lifecycle from requirements gathering through implementation and post-launch support. Execute end-to-end business analysis, including documenting workflows, functional specifications, and control considerations while designing enhanced operating models and settlement processes. Drive hands-on delivery by leading user acceptance testing, defect triage, and rollout preparation, while coordinating cross-functional stakeholders across technology, operations, and risk teams to resolve delivery issues. Prepare governance materials, risk assessments, and decision papers to support steering forums and management oversight. Monitor market infrastructure developments and climate-related ecosystem initiatives to drive operational efficiency and scalability.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree or above in Technology, Information Systems, Finance, Business, Engineering, or related disciplines
- Significant relevant experience (typically 10+ years) in platform delivery, business analysis, operating model transformation, market infrastructure initiatives, or large-scale change programmes within financial services, exchanges, FMIs, fintech or related sectors
- Proven ability to independently lead and deliver complex initiatives, combining strategic oversight with hands-on execution across business analysis, delivery management, testing, implementation and operational readiness
- Strong experience in business analysis, workflow review, operating model assessment, process mapping, requirements management and implementation coordination
- Strong stakeholder management, communication and influencing skills, with the ability to work effectively across business, operations, technology, risk, legal and other cross-functional stakeholders, as well as external service providers
- Ability to structure deliverables, manage dependencies, escalate issues appropriately, prepare clear management materials and maintain delivery discipline in a regulated market infrastructure environment
- Able to operate effectively in a fast-paced and evolving project environment with multiple concurrent initiatives, changing priorities and the need to balance strategic direction with practical execution
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, multitasking and execution capabilities, with attention to detail, quality of documentation and delivery timelines
- Excellent written and spoken English
- Chinese language capability
Desired Qualifications
- Exposure to platform delivery, market infrastructure enhancement, ecosystem initiatives or technology-enabled solutions supporting trading, clearing, settlement, custody or related financial services workflows is advantageous
- Familiarity with climate-related products, voluntary carbon markets, sustainable finance initiatives or related market developments is advantageous
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