Global Product Manager (Accounting & Operations) - Buy-Side Experience Required

GLOBAL PRODUCT MANAGER (Accounting & Operations) 

Location: Candidate can be based in London, Hamburg, Warsaw or Copenhagen 

Introduction

My client provides state of the art investment management solutions to industry leaders within the financial services industry. They have recently launched a new area in their services as a result of an increased demand from their buy-side clients.

You will join at the early stages on this journey, as they expand out their range of products and services to the buy-side community over the next 5+ years. 

You will take ownership of their Accounting & Operations offers and be at the forefront of innovation creation and delivery to their global clients.

Summary 

You need to be an expert and thought leader on their target market in terms of buy-side investment management business models, desired outcomes, competitive landscape, and market trends.You will know how the market leading accounting and operations solutions play a unique part in their front to back offering.

Additionally, you understand where the industry is moving within this area and use this to create new market leading offers in response to how clients want to consume our services going forward. You will use your expertise in this area to create a compelling Offer Vision, Strategy, Value Propositions that will produce truly market leading Offers and you will work with their development, commercial and delivery teams to execute on that on that vision.

Responsibilities 

• Contributes to the Accounting and Operations vision and strategy both commercially and functionally
• Works closely with Solution Architects, Commercial and Delivery Management with shared success metrics
• Accountable for the success of Accounting and Operations Offers, measured by commercial results and client outcome metrics
• Management of Offer throughout offer lifecycle from research, discovery, development, launch and implementation
• Owner of Offer development prioritization
• Responsible for transforming Products and Services to “as a Service” Offers

Requirements 

• Minimum 5 years’ experience within Buy-side Operations or Operations related Product Management
• You may have experience within middle office services from a service provide
• You have experience with operational service delivery and how to use technology to scale efficiently
• Excellent communication skills with ability to inspire and influence others