Index Platform – Product Manager – Process Automation
TORA
- USA
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Set strategy, vision, and mission of their capability area, communicating that across FTSE Russell to wide stakeholder groups.
- As business owner, develop proactive relationships with senior leaders across business units and technologists to design appropriate solutions, foster discussions and decisions around product & feature definition, feasibility, scoping, and development.
- Own mid- to large-size transformational projects that aim to increase FTSE Russell’s product offering, improve scalability or enhance quality, including being responsible for business analysis, development and refinement of strategies, and definition of current and future capabilities requirements.
- Work with the other Product Owners, as well other stakeholders, in identifying capabilities required for current Index creation, calculations and future product expansion.
- Define processes, quality and scalability requirements of end-to-end index operations (methodology inception through index maintenance)
- Drive key process automation for enhancing time-to-market of new product development
- Collaborate with other Product owners in defining proper interfacing across Index platform collection of systems
- Articulate, creative, energetic person able to work alongside the team.
- Exceptional written and oral communication skills and experience with executive storytelling. Ability to communicate with diverse audiences, ranging from highly technical partners to business clients.
- Excellent attention to detail with the ability to think logically to solve business problems.
- Ability to establish credibility and build strong, confident, collaborative relationships with business and technology stakeholders including external parties, at all levels.
- Ability to work under pressure and to tight deadlines without compromising quality.
- Results driven, self-motivated, problem solving, and solutions oriented; takes pride in his/her work.
- Demonstrates a can-do attitude, exhibits self-confidence, leadership, and adaptability to business change.
- Excellent organisational, negotiation, presentation, and time management skills; ability to manage business expectations.
- Ability to keep abreast of and understand technology trends, see how they impact your roadmap, and how they drive innovation.
- Extensive experience in product ownership / technology / business analysis / program management / application delivery in banking or financial domain. Experience in Indexing / portfolio management (desired)
- Solid understanding of Index Management and Operations, Index design, calculation, and data.
- Experience in process automation across multiple disciplines and organizational areas
- Experience building/leading technology delivery for operations teams in the financial industry, ideally linked to Indexing/Funds.
- Experience driving large-scale technology programs and designing digital transformation strategies.
- Experience in portfolio construction, performance and risk calculations, optimization techniques and statistical analysis (desired).
- Deep understanding of investment, business and technical perspective, ability to solve business challenges through technology.
- Management experience with Product Owners, including training and career development
- Experience with Agile delivery and transformation
- Experience with technology-driven innovation and digital transformation
- Familiarity with Benchmark Regulations
- Experience with SaaS (Software as a Service), Cloud, Test-Driven Development (desired)
- Exposure to relational and non-relational databases (desired)