As a Fund Accounting Product Manager within our specialized product development team, you will play a crucial role in maintaining and enhancing our product portfolio. Your responsibilities will include developing innovative new products, collaborating with Operations, Product Development, Client Service, and other partners to ensure a top-tier client experience. Additionally, you will work closely with our Sales team to identify and capitalize on new business opportunities.
Job Responsibilities
- Act as a Fund Accounting subject matter expert supporting Senior Management, Operations, Sales, Client Services and Clients / Prospects
- Provide management and guidance on client, industry and internal change programmes, with focus on maintaining efficiency and standardisation across the operating model
- Work closely with Client Service, Operations and Sales on client retention and new business opportunities including operating model and fee model reviews
- Keep abreast of regulatory change and how this could impact the business
- Identify areas of opportunity to develop and improve the service offering
- Participate in Industry events to stay informed of market, client and competitor developments
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- You will have Fund Accounting experience, understanding the end-to-end model either through working in a similar role or in Operations, and you will have a sound understanding of the funds marketplace
- In-depth practical understanding of Fund Accounting core processes / concepts that cover various asset classes, trade lifecycle, fund expenses, profit and loss computations, balance sheet, and basic financial reporting standards
- Ability to understand a diverse and complex technology and operations infrastructure
- Ability to devise creative solutions in response to client requests and strategic product goals
- Strong analytical skills, able to translate complex issues and other input into actions
- Strong organisational and planning skills, with the ability to multitask in a structured manner
- Strong execution skills - the role requires strategic thinking to define and design our service platform – combined with accountability and strong execution skills to drive and implement development.
- Strong team player with an ability to pull together multiple partners in a productive virtual team environment
- Strong independent contributor who is comfortable working in a self-directed mode on multiple assignments
- Strong written and presentation skills and the ability to self-prepare quality materials and present confidently in multiple settings
- Agility to adapt to a changing environment and demonstrate delivery of critical business goals
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Are you also resourceful and execution-driven? Strong cross-functional/business collaboration skills are required as the candidate will work across multiple teams within the bank.
- Also important are the ability to: synthesize large amounts of information into crisp recommendations; present and defend recommendations to a variety of audiences; manage multiple projects / queries simultaneously and drive them to completion effectively.
- Ideally, you will have working knowledge of the FIS InvestOne platform