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Position Type :

Full time

Type Of Hire :

Experienced (relevant combo of work and education)

Education Desired :

Bachelor's Degree

Are you curious, motivated, and forward-thinking? At FIS you’ll have the opportunity to work on some of the most challenging and relevant issues in financial services and technology. Our talented people empower us, and we believe in being part of a team that is open, collaborative, entrepreneurial, passionate and above all fun.

About the team

The Capital Markets Securities Processing is responsible for a number of products that are deployed for processing equities, fixed income, mutual funds and derivatives to sell-side brokers. These products include Securities Processing Manager (formerly Phase3), PTP (formerly Torstone), Professional Portal (formerly WealthStation), and ancillary modules and have customers around the world with the highest concentration in North America and Europe.

The Product Management function is currently spread across all regions of the world servicing customers globally. The Team participates in requirements capture, solution design, backlog prioritisation, industry and client engagements.

What you will be doing

The PTP platform is highly extensible and configurable and uses out-of-the-box standardized configurations with per-client custom configuration layers. End-customer solutions are composed by integrating components with standard capabilities into full solutions which are layered with customer-specific configuration as appropriate.

We are looking to strengthen our team with a Senior Product Manager who will own the Product Roadmap for our Reference Data component suite alongside the roadmap and delivery of PTP’s standard product configuration globally.

The duties or the role include: -

1. Managing the roadmap for all reference data work in PTP globally including but not limited to Security Master and Account Master.

• Facing off to the Dev Team responsible for Reference Data
• Managing Reference Data roadmap
• Refining Epics and Stories for Reference Data
• Defining Acceptance Criteria for Reference Data Management core change

2. Managing the roadmap for all “out-of-the-box” configurations of the platform which includes US, Canadian, Hong Kong, Japanese and European configurations.

• Each solution blueprint defines a number of components that make up the solution, the integration requirement and integration and regression test packs.
• The Product Manager will be responsible for defining the end-to-end component integration requirements for Standard Configurations.
• Working closely with development teams and Solutions Architects to validate designs and establish build plans for integrating components into Solutions.
• Defining acceptance criteria for end-to-end solutions.
• Assisting in the definition of regression and integration testing scenarios for standard configurations.
• Resolving component integration issues and managing dependencies across component product dev plans.

3. Liaising with customer implementation teams to ensure product development deliverables meet both the objectives of the customer projects and of the standardized product

4. Liaising with component development teams to resolve any end-to-end integration issues.

5. Engaging with customers as necessary to ensure that Product Development requirements meet customer and product objectives.

6. Engaging with pre-sales to prioritize pre-sales end-to-end demo requirements.

What you bring:

• A good understanding of Canadian Retail, Institutional and Correspondent Clearing operational processes,
• Experience of securities processing (back-office) both in equities and fixed income in North America and/or Europe.
• A previous career at a broker or Vendor in a Product or Development role in this space.
• Understanding of general functions and departments of Institutional and Retail brokers
• A deep understanding of Security and Account Master integration, usage and challenges
• Significant exposure to processes
  • Trade Capture and Middle-office
  • Settlements
  • Corporate Actions

• A previous senior role in Product Management
• Effective communications and interpersonal skills.
• Team worker - able to establish and maintain effective working relationships with all levels within organization, internally and externally
• Analytical, problem-solving skills

Added bonus if you have:

• Experience of one or more of the following systems: Broadridge BPS, Broadridge Gloss or FIS RIMS
• Experience in Agile development practices
• Exposure to modern development practices: CI/CD projects

What we offer you

• A multifaceted job with a high degree of responsibility and a broad spectrum of opportunities.
• The opportunity to participate in a long-term strategic re-engineering program of work to bring contemporary technology and development practices to the US Securities Processing industry.
• A modern, international work environment and a dedicated and motivated team
• A competitive salary and benefits

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