Securities Services - Fund Accounting Product Manager

Job Summary :

As a Fund Accounting Product Manager, you will be a key member of a specialized team working to maintain and enhance our Product offering through developing new products, partnering with Operations, Product Development, Client Service and other partners to deliver a class leading client experience, and working with Sales partners 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 standardization across the operating model

• Work closely with business partners on client satisfaction initiatives and sales opportunities including operating model development , legal agreements  and fee models

• 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 activity
   

Required qualifications, capabilities and skills :

• In-depth practical understanding of Fund Accounting core processes / concepts that cover various asset classes, trade lifecycle, fund expenses, P&L computations, balance sheet and basic financial reporting standards

• 5+ years’ experience supporting Fund Accounting product offering

• Continuously monitor and track new business opportunities, and assist in pipeline reporting

• Create initial pricing proposals for new deals and reprices, and develop standard templates to support commercial pricing proposals

• Support the cost to serve process, create the initial cost model, and review actual costs post-implementation 

• Respond to questions in prospect RFPs, supporting FA and Fund Admin products

• Work across business stakeholders, including Operations, Technology, Sales, and Service

• Support billing oversight and governance, and respond to billing inquiries

• Develop reporting to assess profitability of the Fund Services business, and oversight of operational expenses 

• Maintain oversight of key vendor relationships

• Serve as escalation point for issues and the conduit for Product related requests

• Ensure that activities are appropriately reflected in the risk and controls self-assessment and business control forums
   

Preferred qualifications, capabilities and skills :

• 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.