Project Manager

Job Description

Title:  Product Manager

Department: FIL India Technology: Investment Solutions and Services - Asset Management Operations Technology

Location: Bangalore, India

Reports To: Shashi Raj

About Fidelity International

Fidelity International offers investment solutions and services and retirement expertise to more than 2.5 million customers globally. As a privately-held, purpose-driven company with a 50-year heritage, we think generationally and invest for the long term. Operating in more than 25 locations and with $565.7 billion in total assets, our clients range from central banks, sovereign wealth funds, large corporates, financial institutions, insurers and wealth managers, to private individuals.

Our Workplace and Personal Financial Health business provides individuals, advisers and employers with access to world-class investment choices, third-party solutions, administration services and pension guidance. Together with our Investment Solutions & Services business, we invest $437 billion on behalf of our clients. By combining our asset management expertise with our solutions for workplace and personal investing, we work together to build better financial futures. Data as at 30 June 2020.

Find out more about what we do, our history, and how you could be a part of our future at Home (fidelityinternational.com)

Our Values

Integrity - Doing the right thing, every time and putting the client first

Trust - Empowering each other to take the initiative and make good decision

Our Behaviours

Our employees should be:

Brave - Challenge the status quo, be accountable and speak up

Bold - Act with conviction, encourage diverse thinking and keep things simple

Curious - Learn to do new things in better ways and encourage fresh thinking

Compassionate - Have empathy, care for colleagues, clients and the community

Department Description

Investment Solutions and Services offers Fidelity’s investment expertise to wholesale, institutional and other professional investing clients. We provide these clients with funds in which, they and their clients can invest, or segregated mandates which are bespoke solutions. We invest our clients’ money in a range of asset classes inc. equities, fixed income and real estate inc. derivatives; we also offer multi-asset products which invest across these and other asset classes and in third party fund products.  We aspire to offer the most innovative and appropriate investment solutions to our clients, and also to support their evolving business needs by unbundling our capabilities to add our expertise to their capabilities

Global Asset Management Operations is made up of approximately 420 people across 9 locations. The AMO business area is responsible for the operational processing of funds managed by Fidelity. The organisation's primary focus is on providing high quality operational services to both the investment business and our clients.

The site covers information on the majority of teams including Asset Valuation, Fund Accounting, Publishing, TMS, Corporate Actions, Performance & Attribution, Vendor Relationship Management, Statutory Fund Documentation and Service Implementation.

Purpose of your role

The position is for a highly motivated Product Manager/Business Analyst who will be responsible for end to end delivery of software products (systems, applications and platforms) for use by FIL’s business team. The successful candidate shall oversee all aspects of an engagement(s) using planning, monitoring, and controlling processes as per the Fidelity guidelines and standards, and shall be responsible for managing the pipeline of Products, completion of projects on time, on budget and meeting the requirements. To this end, PM will perform a variety of tasks including business stakeholder management, coordinating all resources and stakeholders, planning and setting milestones, assigning responsibilities and monitoring, creating high performing project teams and form excellent working relationships with senior customer representatives across multiple business and System teams.

The right candidate will

• Exhibit a high level ownership and also look at continuous improvement opportunities
• Influence business and technology stakeholders

• Facilitate clear communication and collaboration
• Understand modern programming and testing constructs and be able to leverage the best methodology for the product(s)
• Lead, develop and work with a high performing, self-organised & cross functional team

Key Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end delivery of IT projects using latest methodologies such as Agile and DevOps with key focus areas being delivery management, stakeholder management and people management
• Establish and uphold Agile values and principles including collaboration with different teams, fostering a culture of understanding business value, team empowerment and self- organization, continuous improvement and flexibility to adapt to emerging business needs.
• Effective communicator
• Exhibits good problem-solving skills and proactive approach towards resolving impediments
• Work with business teams and business analysts to design and deliver solution
• Work with Technical team in estimating the work and challenge them back
• Plan the delivery schedule including tasks, milestones, and dependencies keeping the full resources utilization in mind
• Monitor the progress of a project and ensure regular publishing of status report, quality metrics and timely call out the risks/issues in Program Impediment calls
• Track the risks and issues and proactively work on resolution and mitigation approach
• Own the feature scrums and work closely with technical team to establish the roadmap for components
• Manage medium size programs and bringing different teams together
• Ensure that project activities are undertaken and completed as per the Fidelity processes and standards
• Provide recommendations and help direct reports with talent management, objective setting, career development, job rotations, fair and timely appraisals, pipeline management, training, international opportunities, and identification of high potentials, under-performers.
• Manage vendor staff as needed and according to the agreed contract(s).
• Create an efficient and effective organisation structure..

Experience and Qualifications

• BE/ B - Tech / MCA.
• 10 - 12  years overall experience within IT
• 2+ years of experience in managing projects or Products with must exposure to fund accounting domain

Essential Skills

• Experience in fund accounting process of asset management as a BA or Product manager
• Strong leadership and communication skills and the ability to teach and learn from others
• Ability to work collaboratively with others and navigate complex decision making
• Experience in delivering and maintaining products (including 3rd party vendor apps) with cross geography teams is a plus
• Experience of tools like JIRA, Confluence page, MS Office etc. is desired.
• It will be good if resource is has experience in delivering enterprise applications across technology stacks like programming languages (like Java), Data (Oracle), Integration technologies (MQ), and DevOps tools
• Proven ability to work well under pressure and in a team environment

Desirable Skills / Experience

• Understanding of any Public Cloud like AWS, Azure, GCP
• Leadership skills having acumen of working in data warehouse delivery projects
• Ability to analyse complex issues and provide solutions.
• Ability to visualise the automation of manual tasks and work with the teams to get them to closure.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and a strong team player
• Proven ability to work well under pressure and in a team environment
• The successful candidate must be highly motivated, fast learner, flexible, willing to assume responsibility, and deliver quality work on time
• Ability to interact with multiple technology and business teams
• Passionate about learning landscape of the department.
• Ability to multi-task under demanding conditions