Job Summary:
As an Accounting and Regulatory Lead Product Manager, you will play a critical and hands-on role as we continue to refine, enhance, and grow our investment accounting and regulatory product in the EMEA and APAC regions. You will work with a small team spread across the UK and India and collaborate with teams in the U.S. You will help maintain a product strategy and roadmap based on market information and internal collaboration with sales and solutions teams. You will be able to prioritize strategic initiatives and effectively communicate your vision and strategy to other key stakeholders based on business value.
As you execute your strategy, you will be able to communicate the value both internally and externally consistently. As enhancement and new products are developed, you will collaborate with product marketing to build value proposition and messaging content and help take the product to market. Your existing accounting regulatory and financial experience will be leveraged extensively, and you will be able to expand your knowledge of the market and the investment domain. The ideal candidate has experience with the investment management industry with strong accounting, regulatory reporting, compliance, and analytical skills.
Responsibilities:
- Work with clients, prospects, subject matter experts, sales leaders and other product managers to define a product strategy and roadmap including prioritizing work and providing business justification for decisions
- Build deep expertise in the client problems, personas and the value of our solutions.
- Identify and fill product gaps, and generate new ideas that drive growth and customer satisfaction specifically for the accounting and regulatory products in the EMEA and APAC markets
- Keep a pulse on the investment accounting and regulatory market including changing regulations
- Identify and help understand and document the requirements for development projects to ensure the product is built right
- Guide and challenge Product Managers on roadmap priorities. Communicate with internal and external stakeholders about development projects and the value they provide
- Collaborate with Marketing to create product marketing content such as demos, sales collateral, website content, blog articles and commercial decks.
- Enable sales, client services, and operations team on new product functionality and capabilities.
- Measure and drive product adoption, usage and stability on a monthly basis.
Expectations:
- Being transparent and data driven about prioritization and the roadmap process; for example, using evidence-based decision making to drive prioritization including close collaboration with the sales team
- Ability to explain why we are doing what we are doing in terms senior leaders and stakeholders understand. Ability to bridge the gap between product functionality, client business problems, and the company’s business goals.
- Considerable empathy and curiosity with a focus on the customer
- Willingness and flexibility of working with colleagues across time zones.
- Travel: ~20% of time to build and mentor team, coordinate with sales/stakeholders across markets, be visible in the market, and build relationships with prospects/clients.
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance, or technical domains like computer science.
- Demonstrable knowledge of accounting and regulatory reporting within EMEA such as IFRS 9, Solvency II, and ESG. Chartered Accountant (CA) or equivalent is a plus
- Knowledge of accounting treatment for various asset classes, geo specific investment accounting, and/or regulatory reporting guidelines.
- Exemplary interpersonal, communication, and project management skills. Samples will be helpful across written documents/blogs, demo videos, or public speaking videos at conferences or training.
- Excellent team and relationship building abilities, with both internal and external parties (engineers, business stakeholders, partners, etc.)
- Ability to work well under pressure, multitask, and maintain keen attention to detail
- Strong leadership skills, including ability to influence via diplomacy and tact
- Prior experience of creating new commercial streams/product businesses from scratch is a major plus.
