Director of Fiduciary Administration

Location: Columbus, OH, United States. Workplace type: Office; specific flexible arrangements will be provided by the hiring team.

Company

hirify.global provides banking, wealth management, trust, and fiduciary services.

What you will do

• Lead the strategic vision and organizational priorities for fiduciary administration across a national platform.
• Oversee personal trusts, agency relationships, estate settlement, special needs trusts, custody, and other complex fiduciary offerings.
• Ensure consistent fiduciary policies, procedures, service standards, governance, and regulatory compliance across teams.
• Manage fiduciary risk through quality reviews, exception management, remediation, escalation processes, and collaboration with Legal, Compliance, Audit, and Risk Management.
• Lead managers and a significant number of fiduciary professionals through coaching, succession planning, talent development, and performance management.
• Drive capacity planning, process transformation, technology adoption, operational improvement, performance measurement, and budget management.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Accounting, Law, Trust Management, or a related field.
• 10+ years of trust and fiduciary administration experience, including substantial leadership responsibility.
• 7+ years of senior-level people leadership experience managing leaders and large teams across multiple locations.
• Deep knowledge of fiduciary administration, fiduciary law, estate administration, trust operations, risk management, governance, and regulatory requirements.
• Experience leading complex fiduciary organizations in a large financial institution, trust company, or wealth management firm.

Nice to have

• Advanced degree such as a JD, MBA, LLM, or equivalent.
• CTFA or ATFA designation.
• Experience overseeing estate settlement, special needs trusts, and specialty fiduciary services.
• Experience leading geographically dispersed teams and working within a large regional or national banking organization.

Culture & Benefits

• Work in partnership with Wealth Management, Legal, Risk, Compliance, Operations, Technology, Product, and Strategy leaders.
• Build a high-performance, inclusive, collaborative, and engaged fiduciary organization.
• Flexible work arrangements may be available for certain positions outside the branch network, combining in-office and work-from-home work.
• Exempt position and full-time employment.