Operations Vice President – Operational Intelligence Job Bellingham area,Washington USA,Finance & Banking

Serve as the senior operational risk analytics lead embedded within Parametric Investment Operations
Partner with investment operations leadership to measure, monitor, and improve daily process performance using data, trends, and metrics
Escalate risk early and ensure controls are effective, quantifiable, scalable, and aligned with business objectives
Drive KRI design and data-driven, continuous control monitoring
Identify emerging and interconnected risks through operational and adverse scenario analysis
Act as a hands-on risk and escalation partner within live operational workflows
Lead assessments of control effectiveness, incidents, and material business changes
Support business activity change initiatives involving automation, platform changes, and new business activities
Design and maintain KRIs aligned to material risks, controls, and business processes
Establish KRI definitions, data sources, thresholds, and escalation criteria with operational leaders
Analyze KRI trends and exceptions to identify emerging risks, support management decisions, and drive action
Develop automated control monitoring using system data, risk thresholds, exception aging, and anomaly detection
Partner with Technology and Operations to convert manual controls into scalable monitoring and testing
Establish control exception alerting and escalation workflows for timely investigation and remediation
Analyze risk, control, process, system, and dependency relationships to identify concentration and interconnected risk
Develop risk maps and factor analyses linking events, control failures, and vulnerabilities to underlying drivers
Prioritize risk mitigation strategies, inform control design, and improve risk visibility
Analyze operational data, incidents, near misses, control exceptions, and emerging trends to detect increasing risk
Develop adverse scenarios and stress analyses for critical workflows
Assess potential client, financial, regulatory, and operational impacts
Translate findings into mitigation, resiliency, and escalation recommendations
Serve as the dedicated point of risk escalation and judgment for Parametric Investment Operations
Integrate risk management practices into daily operations and strategic initiatives
Provide independent risk challenge on operational decisions and transformation initiatives
Evaluate control effectiveness and identify gaps, vulnerabilities, concentration risks, and failure points
Partner with operational leaders to identify emerging risks and drive sustainable remediation
Maintain operational risk and control inventories, maps, and documentation
Oversee Investment Operations incident reporting, escalation, investigation, and resolution
Lead root cause analysis for significant incidents, control failures, client impacts, and near-misses
Monitor corrective action plans to ensure timely and sustainable remediation
Identify recurring or systemic operational risks
Support resiliency planning for critical workflows and client servicing
Assess operational impacts of technology, automation, and process changes
Identify and mitigate control gaps for new business activities and material changes before implementation

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, Economics, Operations, Risk Management, Data Engineering, Data Analytics, Information Systems and Analytics, or related field
7+ years of experience in investment operations, operational risk, control assurance, business controls, process governance, change management, business intelligence, data engineering and analytics, or financial services operations
Strong understanding of investment operations, operational controls, data and system dependencies, and regulated financial services environments
Experience leading incident management, root cause analysis, and sustainable remediation
Experience designing KRIs using operational data and risk signals to identify emerging risks and support escalation
Experience partnering across Operations, Technology, Risk, Compliance, and Internal Audit on control and remediation matters
Experience supporting examinations, audits or compliance reviews, or enforcement action response
Experience assessing operational risk and readiness for new business activities, technology, automation, and platform changes
Ability to synthesize complex operational, risk, and data information into clear recommendations and executive-ready communication
Strong analytical, problem-solving, stakeholder-influence, and communication skills
Preferred: experience supporting investment, market data, client servicing, or other large-scale operational functions
Preferred: experience implementing automated or continuous control monitoring and converting manual controls into scalable testing
Preferred: familiarity with MS Office, SQL, Alteryx, Tableau, Power BI, Python, or other data analytics, querying, visualization, or monitoring tools
Preferred: experience with operational resiliency, risk and control frameworks, inventories, dependency mapping, or scenario…