Rev & Regs are recruiting for a Product Owner position for a large multinational Asset Management company in the City of London.
Responsibilities: The role's focus is to lead the planning, direction, oversight, monitoring and reporting of the assigned business implementation and all deliverables or outcomes in a timely and cost-effective manner.
Identify, mitigate, and communicate risks and issues that could impact the implementation or the business.
Lead the business to successful outcomes that help it to grow at scale whilst reducing cost growth.
Document and communicate any cross-delivery dependencies and resource contention.
Work closely with the Group central transformation team to define business cases, calculate budgets, and resource requirements, and report monthly on implementation progress.
Monthly implementation reporting to various central forums and steering committees.
Produce, contribute to and validate programme and project proposals, business cases, RFPs, business requirements, specification and scoping documents and other reports as required.
Hand over programme and project deliverables to Business as Usual (BAU) with robust procedures and training to ensure that operational departments continue to operate smoothly.
Negotiate vendor contracts and manage third party relationships.
Undertake feasibility studies in respect of proposed initiatives which are not projects; providing support and guidance to change managers in the business on best practice change management.
Experience: Experience of successfully delivering change into an asset management business.
Excellent knowledge of Charles River.
Experience of implementing new infrastructure across an asset management business.
Role requires a self-motivated individual; the successful candidate will be empowered to work as they feel comfortable and will be measured on outcomes and value delivered to the business.
Experience of asset management systems across front, back, and middle office, as well as trading operations.
The individual will have leadership experience having managed people directly or remotely, with a strong focus on emotional intelligence.
Experience of third-party vendor negotiations.
Comfortable with constructive challenge at all levels Detailed understanding of outsourced relationships and how to implement new systems and processes with third party providers.
Preferably the candidate will have experience of delivery of data initiatives.
Salary: £85,000 - £90,000 plus c£50,000 bonus Location: hybrid (2 days per week in City of London office)