Junior Product Manager

Location: Newcastle, or Lombard Street

Working Pattern: Hybrid

Contract Type: Permanent

Role Description

The Figaro product team within FNZ Group Technologies specialises in understanding the needs of wealth managers and other investment firms, and translating those needs into solutions that advance and transform our clients’ businesses.

As part of the Figaro product team these solutions cover a wide remit including Model B custody services, dealing in international exchange traded instruments, and SIPP administration.

The product manager role is a key role within the Figaro team, and will provide leadership and expertise in the following areas:

• Maintaining the Figaro product roadmap

• Ensuring customer requirements satisfy the wider product requirements

• Regulation and advice on platform compliance

• Ensure smooth change rollout to Figaro customers

• Understanding the wider FNZ technology stack and where components can be reused.

Organisational Design

The Figaro product team is an integral part of the FNZ Group Product team, working closely with customers, the business development, and delivery teams.

Team Responsibilities

The Figaro product team is responsible for providing a range of high value services to FNZ Customers. This includes being responsible for defining and implementing the Figaro product strategy and roadmap.

It involves working with Figaro customers in a variety of contexts including  proposition definition, business transformation, customer training and knowledge transfer, and the definition of bespoke requirements where required for customer platform solutions. The product team also work closely with the development teams, providing requirements and design oversight and approval. For customer led developments, the product team will also ensure the requirements fit the wider product strategy.

Specific Role Responsibilities

• Work with FNZ customers to help define proposition and product requirements. Provide Market expertise as required. Be an SME in FNZ Figaro functionality and apply this understanding to help customers define propositions that best utilise or enhance platform capabilities

• Provide, review and quality assurance of design documentation produced by the FNZ delivery teams

• Setting product strategy for key aspects of Figaro

• Have a good knowledge of the regulatory environment in which the Figaro customers operates, and provide advice and guidance to customers in respect of delivering a compliant platform

• Independently manage internal and external stakeholders across all levels.

Experience required

Essential Knowledge & Skills

• Degree or equivalent in a Finance or Economics related field preferred

• General investment and wealth industry knowledge

• Interest in technology solutions and technology delivery

• Be able to evidence establishing an environment of continuous improvement and capability development

• Confident, and able to take initiative in a client – and delivery-focused environment

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, and ability to build key relationships within the organisation and with our customers

• Ability to challenge customers and stakeholders to deliver on objectives

• Independent, self-directing and delivery focused working style

• Superior analytical thinking and problem solving skills

• Excellent organisational, administration and time management skills

• Commercially aware

• Experience in a consulting, analysis or architecture environment

• 2+ years of experience in a delivery/consulting environment in the UK financial services/wealth market.

Preferred Non-Essential Industry Knowledge & Skills

• Knowledge of markets in which FNZ and our customers operate

• Figaro Platform expertise

• An understanding of the UK regulatory environment and a good working knowledge of the regulatory change requirements for a given year

• Experience working within a product management team with a view of the end-to-end delivery cycle

• Experience managing a wide network of key stakeholders, including Senior Management

About FNZ

FNZ is committed to opening up wealth so that everyone, everywhere can invest in their future on their terms. We know the foundation to do that already exists in the wealth management industry, but complexity holds firms back. 

We created wealth’s growth platform to help. We provide a global, end-to-end wealth management platform that integrates modern technology with business and investment operations. All in a regulated financial institution. 

We partner with over 650 financial institutions and 12,000 wealth managers, with US$1.5 trillion in assets under administration (AUA).

Together with our customers, we help over 20 million people from all wealth segments to invest in their future.