Job Summary:
The Securities Services Reconciliation Product Development team delivers enhancements to existing services, or processes and applications to support new services that are provided to our clients, as part of a partnership with Operations and Technology. The individual will work with product management, sales and service teams, and technology to build out and link together key product components for Custody, Fund Services, Agency Lending, and Middle Office Services businesses. The offering covers reconciliation functionality end-to-end processing across multiple asset classes. In addition to interfacing with clients and product teams, this role offers an opportunity to further develop expertise across custody, fund services and trading products, asset manager and market processes. Given the pace of change, responsibilities of the role will include strategic thinking on FinTech, Big Data, etc. to provide a competitive product to the market.
The Reconciliations Product Development Vice President will be responsible for delivering targeted projects within the overall program. The role will focus on supporting cross-Securities Services initiatives on the product roadmap, gathering / drafting requirements for new business requirements and / or functionality, collaborating with the cross-product teams and other product areas, and interfacing with clients.
The role will involve working with operations and technology to understand the transaction and reconciliation lifecycles across asset classes, performing data analysis to understand its behavior and nuances, and writing detailed specifications and business requirements to develop the offering further. This individual will work to define and execute the roadmap and the priorities for their projects. They will be responsible for managing the detailed flows, communicating updates to their stakeholders.
Job Responsibilities:
Act as SME and write scope and detailed business requirements documents to drive project delivery. Drive standardization in the build-out of Reconciliations while considering impact on broader Securities Services lines of business. End-to-end responsibility for delivering user stories. Build strong partnerships and run project working group meetings with operations, technology, and other product areas to understand business flows and track project delivery. Identify opportunities for product improvement and differentiation, efficiency and standardization, present and drive process improvements.Propose and deliver solutions as challenges in the project are raised; negotiate to prioritization across product roadmaps. Drive simplification and standardization to enable clients to view, and manage data distribution needs.Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills:
Experience working on projects, providing client focused solutions or enhancing existing products or processes. Experience in a Reconciliations or Reference Data capacity is a plus. Strong data analysis and problem-solving skills are required. Experience working with Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, SharePoint, and ProjectEnergetic self-starter with ability to navigate the firm proactively, collaborate and effectively partner with different teams and individuals.Excellent communication capabilities, clearly and succinctly message with an understanding of appropriate level of detail for their stakeholders.Strong program management skills, must be organized and able to develop a project plan and break it down into achievable deliverables.Strong collaboration skills, able to work with many different individuals and partner effectively with different groups. Experience with Agile development methodologies, SQL knowledge, and Alteryx.