Operations Manager 4
About The Position
The Operations Manager will lead the Onboarding and Maintenance teams within Global Corporate Trust Paying & Transfer Agent Operations. The team supports new account and security setup, account and issue maintenance, customer record updates, and ongoing servicing across multiple Corporate Trust product lines. The manager will oversee approximately 12–15 professionals across Saint Paul, Minnesota, and Cincinnati, Ohio, including team leads and specialists. The role is responsible for ensuring work is completed accurately and efficiently, in accordance with client requirements, operational procedures, and established controls. The successful candidate will partner with business line leaders, relationship managers, technology, risk, compliance, and operations teams to support new business onboarding, client servicing, operational excellence, and process modernization. The role requires working from a U.S. Bank location three or more days per week.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience.
- Typically five or more years of relevant experience.
- Thorough knowledge of operational functions, systems, procedures, and products and/or services supported by the assigned area(s).
- Understanding of applicable federal and state laws and regulations.
- Thorough knowledge of applicable products, programs, financial analysis, and related documentation.
- Strong organizational, leadership, and project management skills.
- Well-developed customer relationship management skills.
- Excellent interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills.
- Strong people leadership, coaching, and talent development abilities.
- Proven supervisory and management skills.
- Experience leading process improvement, change management, and operational excellence initiatives.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities, deadlines, and business objectives in a fast-paced environment.
- Ability to build effective partnerships across business lines and support functions.
Responsibilities
- Lead, coach, and develop specialists and team leads, including performance management, hiring, employee development, and day-to-day people leadership.
- Oversee new account onboarding, account and security setup, issue setup, account maintenance, and customer record maintenance across multiple Corporate Trust business lines.
- Monitor production volumes, inventory, aging, service levels, quality metrics, and operational risk indicators while balancing workloads and staffing.
- Ensure new accounts, securities, issuances, ownership records, and maintenance requests are completed accurately and on time in accordance with governing documents, client instructions, and operational procedures.
- Develop cross-training and succession strategies to reduce single points of dependency and strengthen team resiliency.
- Partner with business development, client relationship, paying agent, trustee, and operations teams to support new business onboarding and ongoing client servicing.
- Lead and support process improvement, automation, and operational transformation initiatives to improve scalability, quality, efficiency, and employee experience.
- Manage escalations and coordinate resolution of onboarding, maintenance, servicing, and other operational issues.
- Support audits, regulatory reviews, business continuity activities, risk assessments, and corrective action plans.
- Ensure adherence to corporate policies, procedures, control requirements, and applicable laws and regulations.
- Collaborate with peer leaders to share resources, strengthen business continuity, and promote a one-team culture across operations.
Benefits
- Healthcare (medical, dental, and vision)
- Basic term and optional term life insurance
- Short-term and long-term disability
- Pregnancy disability and parental leave
- 401(k) and employer-funded retirement plan
- Paid vacation (two to five weeks depending on salary grade and tenure)
- Up to 11 paid holiday opportunities
- Adoption assistance
- Sick and Safe Leave accruals of one hour for every 30 worked, up to 80 hours per calendar year unless otherwise provided by law
- Incentive and recognition programs
- Equity stock purchase
- Pension
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
