I was looking around at a few operations jobs recently, as I’d heard they’re some of the more relaxed roles at the big financial firms. A friend of mine told me it was “basically a nothing job”
I wouldn’t be against that in this day and age tbh, but how accurate is that?
I wish this was remotely true. Being in operations in fintech, i think its one of the most stressful and busy job. Depending how well you plan things, you are not going crazy every day and only putting of fires as and when needed, but overall operations is one role which has to work with almost every other department in the organization and is DEFINITELY NOT a relaxing job.
I know a girl who works in operations for a BB in London and she does ~55 hours pretty regularly. Doesn’t seem like a nothing job at all tbh
Working in Compliance of a BB investment bank myself, i can tell you that the job of the Operations colleagues is definitely not “nothing”! Especially in the IB, it is a very hectic and stressful job, they are treated poorly by the business and they have a lot of stakeholders. So for urgent deals, transactions or similar they are having a very stressful time and in my opinion they do not get enough recognition.
I agree here but the goal is to make it a nothing job streamlining and improving processes. Putting out fires is what happens in the begining. Once they are out move on because it becomes boring.
Is it a startup? I imagine the life of a corporate operations person and a startup operations person are dramatically different 
Or donations ! ‘/