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SS&C

Cloud-based SaaS for financial operations

Director Success Manager

Customer SuccessPosted on Nov 12
Full-timeSingapore

About the Job

Requirements

  • At least 10 years of experience in senior client relationship management, client success, financial services, investment management, fintech, or a comparable client-facing leadership role.
  • Significant experience managing large, sophisticated, and strategically important institutional clients.
  • Demonstrated success developing trusted relationships with C-suite and senior executive stakeholders.
  • Exceptional interpersonal and relationship-building capability, with a credible and confident communication style.
  • Strong executive presence and emotional intelligence, including judgement in complex stakeholder dynamics and adapting approach appropriately.
  • Demonstrated ability to operate in politically complex client environments, build consensus, and influence outcomes without always having direct authority.
  • Ability to recognize explicit and implicit client concerns, identify emerging relationship risks, and intervene effectively.
  • Strong commercial judgement and understanding of how client relationships, service delivery, technology, retention, and growth intersect.
  • Strong understanding of alternative investment management, ideally including hedge funds, private equity/private markets, fund operations, and the supporting technology landscape.
  • Sufficient technical depth to engage credibly with senior technology and operational stakeholders and understand complex platforms, integrations, data flows, and service dependencies.
  • Ability to translate between business, operational, and technical audiences, making complex issues understandable and actionable.
  • Experience leading significant service incidents and executive escalations calmly and effectively.
  • Comfort operating amid rapid growth, organizational change, global stakeholders, and competing priorities.
  • Ability to work independently, make commercially aware decisions, and exercise judgement with incomplete information.
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent relevant professional experience.

Responsibilities

  • Own the overall strategic relationship with a highly complex and strategically important client, acting as a senior point of accountability within SS&C.
  • Build trusted relationships with senior client stakeholders, including C-suite executives, business leaders, technology leaders, and operational executives.
  • Develop a deep understanding of the client's business strategy, investment operations, technology landscape, growth plans, and evolving service requirements.
  • Act as a trusted adviser by anticipating client needs, identifying risks, and helping shape solutions before issues become escalations.
  • Navigate stakeholder dynamics across the client and SS&C, balancing differing priorities and perspectives while maintaining strong relationships.
  • Use situational and interpersonal judgement to read stakeholder concerns and adapt communication and influencing style to the audience.
  • Understand the client's organizational dynamics and decision-making processes, and engage at the appropriate level and time.
  • Lead senior governance, executive reviews, and strategic planning discussions, including conversations about the client's future direction.
  • Ensure SS&C's service levels, operational performance, and client experience meet or exceed expectations.
  • Own significant client issues and escalations, coordinating Product, Technology, Support, Professional Services, Operations, and other internal teams to resolve them.
  • Translate complex technical or operational issues into clear business implications and executive-level communications.
  • Partner across SS&C to ensure the client's global growth and changing requirements are understood, planned for, and supported.
  • Identify opportunities to expand the relationship by connecting client objectives with relevant SS&C capabilities and solutions.
  • Maintain strong knowledge of the alternative investments industry, including hedge funds, private markets, and complex investment structures, and the supporting technology and operational infrastructure.
  • Develop strategic account plans covering key stakeholders, client priorities, risks, growth initiatives, service improvement opportunities, and relationship objectives.
  • Advocate for the client internally while balancing client expectations with SS&C's strategic, operational, and commercial objectives.
  • Travel periodically as required to maintain senior relationships and support the client's regional and global organization.

Desired Qualifications

  • Strong understanding of alternative investment management, ideally including hedge funds, private equity/private markets, fund operations, and the supporting technology landscape.

About the Company

SS&C

Cloud-based SaaS for financial operations

SS&C Technologies provides cloud-based software and services for financial services firms, focusing on investment and asset management. Its subscription-based SaaS tools automate back-office tasks, portfolio and investment management, and related workflows, all hosted in the cloud. The platform integrates with other financial systems to manage assets, processing, reporting, and compliance from a single place, helping reduce manual work and costs. By offering breadth across wealth, asset, and property management with a services-enabled SaaS model, its goal is to automate, standardize, and optimize back-office operations so firms can focus on managing investments and client relationships.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
Windsor, CT
Founded
1986

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