VP, Operations, Cost & Tax Reporting

VP, Operations, Cost Basis & Tax Reporting

Job Description Summary

Raymond James is seeking a strategic Vice President to lead its Cost Basis and Tax Reporting Operations. This high-impact leadership role offers a unique opportunity to shape enterprise-wide strategy, drive operational excellence, and ensure regulatory compliance in a dynamic financial environment. You’ll guide high‑performing teams, champion continuous improvement, and lead initiatives that enhance reporting accuracy and modernise infrastructure. Your leadership will ensure seamless cross‑functional collaboration, aligning operational goals with the broader mission and long‑term vision of the organization.

• Take overall responsibility for designing, developing, and delivering the organization’s operational strategy and outcomes.
• Take overall responsibility for setting and approving area budgets that achieve organizational strategy.
• Manage and report on business performance; hold direct reports accountable for achievement of business plans, and take corrective action where necessary.
• Lead the development of annual and longer‑term business plans for a significant function, ensuring alignment with strategy; quantify business outcomes, i.e., KPIs and resource budgets; and ensure integration of key activities or projects across the organization.
• Set and communicate the strategy, along with the broad actions needed to implement it, for achieving the organization’s mission, vision, and values within a function; inspire a large or diverse workforce to commit to these tenets and do extraordinary things to achieve the organization’s business goals.
• Identify and manage stakeholders up to and including top management level, developing engagement plans to support communication of business information and decisions.
• Develop the strategy for a significant area of responsibility, such as a function, anticipating complex issues, challenges, and opportunities.
• Represent the organization in industry, institutional, and professional forums, boards, and committees, promoting the company brand and efforts.
• Identify the capabilities needed to meet business needs; evaluate current capabilities, identify gaps, and prioritise development activities.
• Define the detailed organisation structure for a business area to align with corporate principles; define relationships between elements and responsibilities of senior managers.
• Monitor regulatory compliance with internal and external groups including auditors, FINRA, IRS, SEC, and others.

• Company’s working structure, policies, mission, and strategies.
• Project management methodology sufficient for a sponsorship role.
• Principles of finance and securities industry operations.
• Financial markets and products.
• Performance management.

• Act as organisational authority on developing appropriate plans or performing necessary actions based on recommendations and requirements.
• Act as organisational authority on planning, organising, prioritising and overseeing activities to efficiently meet business objectives.
• Operate as a recognised expert to assess facts and adjust thinking and work habits to thrive in any scenario.
• Act as organisational authority on strategic planning and on managing projects and/or programmes within desired cost, time and quality parameters.
• Use clear and effective verbal communication skills to express ideas, request actions and formulate plans or policies.
• Review and create relevant, lucid and effective reports.
• Negotiate to obtain consensus between parties with differing interests.

• SIE required or ability to obtain within 120 days.
• Series 99 and Series 7 required, or ability to obtain within 120 days.

• Bachelor’s in Accounting, Business Administration or Finance (required).
• High School (HS) required.

Minimum 10 to 15 years of managerial experience.

Less than 25 %.

Hybrid.

At Raymond James, our associates use five guiding behaviours to deliver on the firm’s core values. We honour, value and respect the uniqueness, experiences and backgrounds of all associates. The Company is an equal opportunity employer and makes all employment decisions on the basis of merit and business needs.