This position supports the Global Securities Lending Programme, ensuring operational excellence across the securities lending trade lifecycle in international markets, with particular emphasis on EMEA markets.
The role is accountable for ensuring settlement accuracy, mitigating risk, and delivering continuous process improvements within a fast-paced, collaborative environment. It also emphasises strong relationship management and close partnership with EMEA lending traders to deliver seamless execution and strategic alignment.

• Core Responsibilities
• Ensure smooth settlement throughout the stock loan trade cycle, including collateral collection, monitoring new loan settlements, returns, and managing critical broker recalls.
• Partner closely with lending traders to strengthen collaboration, support operational excellence, and deliver on strategic priorities
• Reconcile and process mandatory corporate actions. Monitor, protect and execute voluntary corporate actions with counterparties.
• Identify and resolve operational challenges; driving process improvements and strengthening stakeholder relationships.
• Support ad hoc requests from the trading desk and contribute to the development of operational capabilities.
• Develop and maintain strong relationships with custodians and external counterparties to ensure seamless operations and optimal service delivery.
• Maintain rigorous adherence to established controls, policies, and procedures to mitigate risk.
• Serves as subject matter and technical expert, identifies and resolves complex fund and investment operational issues. Analyzes cash flow, transaction, and portfolio holdings data.
• Leads process improvements efforts, completes comprehensive analysis, and recommends solutions.
• Documents procedures across all fund and investment product types. Leverages fund and investment operational knowledge to aid in the production of gold copy data and enhance output.
• Maintains communication with internal and external partners to resolve process and reconciliation issues. Oversees the research and implement complex process improvements.
• Oversees daily operation, manages controls and verifies completion of processes
• Identifies opportunities for process improvements and proactively proposes solutions.
• Participates in special projects and performs other duties as assigned.

Qualifications:

• Previous experience of working within securities lending, securities financing or investment operations
• Undergraduate degree or equivalent combination of training and experience within Accounting or Finance

How We Work:

Vanguard has implemented a hybrid working model for the majority of our crew members, designed to capture the benefits of enhanced flexibility while enabling in-person learning, collaboration, and connection. We believe our mission-driven and highly collaborative culture is a critical enabler to support long-term client outcomes and enrich the employee experience.