VP, Operations, Cost Basis & Tax Reporting

Vice President, Cost Basis And Tax Reporting Operations

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 modernize infrastructure. Your leadership will ensure seamless cross-functional collaboration, aligning operational goals with the broader mission and long-term vision of the organization.

Responsibilities :

• 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 to ensure the achievement of business objectives, balancing the need to deliver short-term business objectives with the longer-term delivery of stakeholder value.
• Lead the development of annual and longer-term business plans for a significant function, ensuring alignment with strategy; quantify business outcomes, i.e., key performance indicators (KPIs) and resource budgets (financial and headcount); 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, finding out their needs, issues, and concerns and reacting to them by leading and coordinating the development of stakeholder engagement plans to support the communication of business information and decisions.
• Develop the strategy for a significant area of responsibility, anticipating complex issues, challenges, and opportunities. Ensure the strategy is successfully implemented and meets medium-term business needs.
• Represent the organization or institution in a variety of industry, institutional, and / or professional forums, boards, and committees, in order to promote the company or institution brand or efforts. Focus is on a specific area of the organization, such as a function or department. May involve preparation of presentations and materials for professional partnering meetings, seminars, and conferences.
• Identify the capabilities needed to meet the current and emerging business needs of a significant business area. Evaluate current capabilities, identify gaps, and prioritize development activities. Motivate others to develop their capabilities and fulfill their personal potential. Build capabilities elsewhere in the organization through mentoring and other informal methods.
• Define the detailed organization structure for a business area to align with corporate principles, define the relationship between elements of the organization, and define the responsibilities of senior managers, to enable the organization to achieve its business objectives.
• Monitors regulatory compliance with internal and external groups including auditors, FINRA, IRS, SEC and others.

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Education :

Bachelor's : Accounting, Bachelor's : Business Administration, Bachelor's : Finance, High School (HS) Required

Work Experience :

Manager Experience - 10 to 15 years

Certifications :

s99 - Operations Professional Examination - Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), Securities Industry Essentials Exam (SIE) - Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA)

Travel : Less than 25%

Workstyle : Hybrid

At Raymond James our associates use five guiding behaviors (Develop, Collaborate, Decide, Deliver, Improve) to deliver on the firm's core values of client-first, integrity, independence and a conservative, long-term view. We expect our associates at all levels to : Grow professionally and inspire others to do the same Work with and through others to achieve desired outcomes Make prompt, pragmatic choices and act with the client in mind Take ownership and hold themselves and others accountable for delivering results that matter Contribute to the continuous evolution of the firm

At Raymond James as part of our people-first culture, we honor, value, and respect the uniqueness, experiences, and backgrounds of all of our Associates. When associates bring their best authentic selves, our organization, clients, and communities thrive. The Company is an equal opportunity employer and makes all employment decisions on the basis of merit and business needs.