Securities Services – Product Development, Investment Manager Middle Office Services (IMOS) - A[...]

Job Summary:

The Investment Manager Middle Office Services (IMOS) Product Development Associate or Vice President will drive design and delivery of key enhancements to the strategic middle office product, leveraging firm-wide capabilities to implement efficient and competitive product solutions.

This individual will define the roadmap and priorities based on current client mandates and potential new funds and execute on that roadmap. The individual will work with product management, sales and service teams, and technology to build out and link together key product components for middle office.

The primary responsibility will be managing further build out of the IMOS cash and securities transaction processing and settlement platforms, the objective being to deliver enhancements through operating model efficiencies, increased product coverage as well as scalability for further client onboarding.

As well as prior experience with strategic change, hands on experience of trade settlement and other operational processes, risk and control, and subsequent creation of business requirements and operating models will be necessary.

Job Responsibilities:

• Intelligent solution design and change delivery against the strategic IMOS roadmap through the full project life cycle, including analysis, design of the client/user experience, service model and testing/migration of the components for delivery.
• Identify opportunities for product improvement and differentiation, efficiency and standardization, present and drive process improvements.
• Partner with technology teams to execute the development of the toolset, providing requirements and ensuring delivery is on time and on budget.
• Communicate progress of the product development effort through the end-to-end delivery lifecycle with all levels of the organization to keep team members and leadership apprised of progress and challenges.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills:

• Experience designing and implementing solutions, either for clients, improvement of internal processes, or new products including documentation of business requirements, development of the roadmap, and plan/timelines for execution.
• Experience of securities and cash settlement operations processing and lifecycle event processing/asset servicing operations for a wide variety of instruments, including securities, money markets and complex derivatives. Experience with Swift message formatting required.
• Experience with one or more of the above middle office service functions or products, ideally at an asset manager or trading desk, or other business line that provides middle office related services, such as Prime Brokerage.
• Energetic self-starter with ability to drive delivery of the strategic vision with demonstrated effectiveness leading a multi-disciplinary team.
• Excellent communication capabilities, clearly and succinctly message with appropriate level of detail to cross-functional teams, senior management, and clients.
• Collaboration skills, able to work with many different individuals and partner effectively with different groups.
• Excellent program management skills, must be organized and able to develop a program plan and break down into achievable deliverables.
• Proven track record of effectively resolving issues and conflicts to ensure timely delivery.
• Analytical skills, problem solving, strong critical thinking and decision-making skills based upon facts and business/industry knowledge.