Head of Product, Scaling FinTech

We're looking for a Senior Product Leader to join our growing team. This is a unique opportunity to bring your ideas and expertise to a fast-growing FinTech company, defining the technical vision, delivering the plan and leading the team. We are in a crucial stage of our product lifecycle and we are now looking for an experienced Head of Product who can help us execute our product strategy and realise our ambitions.

Reporting to the CEO this role will be responsible for owning the product roadmap across AxeTrading. With a high level of autonomy, your role will be hands on, defining requirements, coaching and leading a talented team of engineers and getting stuck in with technical contributions. You'll work closely with our Product Owners as well as our Software Engineers, to make both product and project decisions.

Based in either London, UK or Magdeburg, Germany with travel required to the other offices, you will play a fundamental role in the future development and success of AxeTrading.

The Role

You will,

• Lead product design strategy, collaborate and build alignment with key stakeholders and the leadership team to ensure the strategy delivers on both the customer and business goals
• Own the holistic view of the product and ensure all teams and initiatives across the business are aligned to our product strategy.
• Drive and execute product strategy to achieve goals and deliver regional expansion plans
• Plan and fully own the execution of the strategic product roadmap
• Establish and fully own the new product roadmap aligned with prospects / customer pipeline.
• Use internal functions and external data to identify the features and requirements with the most customer and business value to find opportunities and to prioritise

You'll also initiate research programmes that identify and help us understand how we best serve the needs of our customers in our product. You'll be encouraged to facilitate workshops, interviews and meetings with business partners and their delegates to capture and document the existing business process and desired changes, using standard process modelling techniques.

Working with a wide range of stakeholders you will be responsible for ensuring we maximise the return on investment we are making on our products to make sure they are stable, scalable, easy to use and engaging whilst balancing the need to improve existing systems with the demands of the business to expand into new jurisdictions.

Your Experience

• Hands on product experience in the FinTech and Financial Services industry, ideally within a complex product setting
• Prior experience working for a global organisation with international clients and customers
• Proven ability to execute product strategy across multiple strategic tracks - designing and owning a product delivery process
• Experience working with enterprise customers - with an understanding of how to balance customer input with product development
• A strong technical background merged with marketing creativity, grounded and verified through analytical decision making
• Track record of successfully defining, building, and launching high growth digital products in hyper-competitive industries
• Prior experience in a leadership position with a solid track record of growing successful teams.
• Deep understanding of how to scale a complex product with evidence of success within a ‘scale up’ environment

About You

• A natural leader who can galvanise a team towards a shared goal

• Commercially minded, able to link everything back to business outcomes

• A meticulous planner who is known as someone who delivers

• Able to see the bigger picture while being the first to jump in where required

• Passionate about product management and product leadership with an active role in the product community

COMPANY: AXIOMSL

ROLE: SENIOR DELIVERY MANAGER

LOCATION: LONDON

Description

AxiomSL is the leading global provider of regulatory reporting and risk management solutions for banks, asset managers and insurers. It empowers clients with the tools they need to manage their financial, risk and operational requirements, and to comply with regulatory calculation and disclosure mandates around the world.

All of AxiomSL’s solutions are built on the same adaptable, high-performance platform. This gives clients a unique opportunity to reduce the cost and complexity of compliance by using one platform to manage all of their requirements globally. AxiomSL’s solutions are fully supported and are upgraded when rules and templates change. The unparalleled transparency offered by AxiomSL gives users the ability to drill down from the reports they produce to the calculations and source data they have used.

Axiom Software Laboratories combines deep industry expertise with an intelligent data management platform to deliver regulatory, liquidity, capital & credit, operations and trade & transaction reporting. Our global footprint spans 70 regulators across 50 jurisdictions, surveying more than 4,000 regulatory filings. We currently serve national, regional and global financial institutions with more than $39 trillion in total assets.

Founded in 1991, AxiomSL is headquartered in New York City with regional offices worldwide.

We are the industry leader in providing enterprise-wide data and risk management solutions for our clients all around the world. We are continuously seeking great talent to help us continue to surface new ideas, deliver excellence in innovation and provide our clients with one of the most comprehensive data and risk management solution on the market.

About the Role

AxiomSL is looking for a Senior Delivery Manager to join the EMEA Professional Services / PMO team. The successful candidate will oversee a number of active software implementation projects of the AxiomSL ControllerView regulatory reporting platform and be responsible for:

• Successfully delivering major client projects from initiation to go-live
• Engaging with the client project team and project manager(s) to plan, govern, monitor and track deliverable items, tasks, timelines and milestones
• Overseeing the allocation of tasks to AxiomSL consultants and tracking our deliverables
• Working with AxiomSL internal teams such as Product and Platform to ensure the deliveries of respective project dependencies
• Reporting on the status of the project on a weekly basis to internal and external stakeholders
• Participating in and potentially leading project steering level conversations with senior management and sponsors from Client and AxiomSL
• Managing risks and issues proactively to avoid escalations, and drive all stakeholders through action items for closure of risks and issues
• Mentor junior resources

• Creating the “Statement of Work” and the Terms of Reference by clearly identifying project / programme objectives based upon technical overview, and the right approach with needed activities, roles, deliverables and timing together with the Technical Consultant or other project members

Requirements

• Fluent German Language Skills
• Bachelor’s degree is required; minimum of 10 years of managing projects in banking or Fintech with a proven track record of successful delivery
• People oriented person who can work with multiple teams simultaneously and know how to address the needs of each team individual with the correct approach. Strong proven track record in client relationship and expectation setting
• Strong Analytical & Organizational skills – high degree of project planning, set priorities, and systems integration expertise, as for most of the time the successful candidate will be coordinating tasks, directing resources and staying aware of all aspects of the project
• Natural leadership abilities, with a motivation to deliver excellent results in collaboration with others
• Issue management – ability to identify and resolve issues, capable of ensuring that problems are managed or escalated before the quality of the project is compromised
• Time management – Great time keeping skills holding the ability to organize the team’s schedule so they can meet agreed commitments
• Communication skills – ability to address different audiences using the appropriate language to communicate their meaning clearly and efficiently to have everyone on the same page

Benefits

• You will be a part of a global technical team
• Bi-weekly team calls and individual 1:1 meetings with your manager
• SMART goals and performance indicators that each team member is evaluated on
• Opportunities for growth and development within the team and AxiomSL
• Townhall team meetings to discuss challenges and success within your role and team
• Metrics to track our work
• Continuous learning and experience in a feedback-oriented environment
• A commitment to staff-care and work life balance
• 25 days of holiday
• Life insurance x 4
• Full health care for yourself and direct family- VHI
• Dental just for employee - VHI
• Pension: Employee match up to 4%

EC1 Partners are working closely with a leader in FX Trading technology that provide bespoke trading solutions and improve access to liquidity and credit. They are in search for a Senior Full Stack Developer with strong backend capabilities in Node.js and JavaScript, with front end being Native react. This is an excellent opportunity for someone who has a strong interest in the financial markets and modern UX design.

Key Responsibilities:

• Be responsible for the growth & maintenance of our proprietary platforms & will be instrumental in delivering technology solutions. You will also be analyzing & improving the user side experience.
• Contribute to all aspects of application development including functional & technical specifications, design, development & production support. Ensure high quality of deliverables while complying with development best practices.
• Full-stack development experience which includes strong JavaScript with a focus on ReactJS 16 & Node.JS skills
• Responsible for the quality of your own code
• Test, evaluate & recommend technologies to improve our overall solutions
• Work closely with our proprietary core trading engine to deliver scalable and high-performance solutions
• Communicate & collaborate with the research and trading teams to design & deliver innovative & high-quality solutions
• Develop and design white label trading solutions that meet our client’s needs

Key Skills:

• Must have 5+ years of relevant industry experience in JavaScript web technologies on NodeJS and ReactJS
• Must have 4+ years’ experience of design principles & how to achieve them.
• Preferred knowledge of modern languages of CSS3/SASS & HTML5
• Previous experience in FinTech is preferred.
• Must have 2+ years’ experience with relational SQL databases & best practices
• Exposure to NGINX and load-balancing software
• Exposure to CI/CD pipelines
• Proficient in Git for code versioning
• Solid understanding of TCP standards & network protocols
• Experience with real-time systems

Our client is a low-code automation software, supporting global and regional financial institutions in their data transformation journey. Partnering with tier 1 global partners and an impressive list of tier 1 and 2 financial institutions, our client deliver solutions across the whole FI trading floor, from trade confirmation to reconciliation processes, allowing for higher efficiency and better accuracy.

Passionate about customer service, they believe in empowering their team members to support the growth regionally and globally. The ideal incumbent is technically inclined and has a strong passion for customer service. Supporting a group of APAC clients, your core responsibilities will include the following:

• Taking ownership of incidents and requests, you will work with clients to resolve any technical issues that arise from the use of their solutions
• Manage support cases to ensure incidents and cases are recorded, tracked, resolved and follow-ups are completed in a timely and professional manner
• Collaborate with various internal and external stakeholders whenever necessary to ensure incident investigation and resolution is effective and efficient
• Act as a subject-matter-expect of the client’s software, how it is deployed and its applications
• Play a key role in the delivery and implementation process, ensuring client satisfaction
• Work alongside customers and internal teams to rapidly restore services should unforeseen failures occur
• Monitor and perform application checks and services regularly to anticipate potential problems and resolve them before they impact customers
• Collaborate on continuous improvements of technical and client interaction skills

To be successful in the role, you will ideally have the following:

• A minimum of 9 years experience or equivalent in technical roles along with relevant technical skills, ideally in SQL or C# environment
• A sound understanding of web technologies, such as .NET and/or SQL Server experience
• A confident communicator with strong stakeholder management skills, you will have demonstrated ability to engage with clients and internal stakeholders
• You have strong problem-solving skills and are able to navigate through complex situations confidently
• A customer-centric mindset is crucial to your success

You will be working alongside established multinationals and expecting a competitive renumeration package with unparalleled opportunity for career progression.

LSEG (Refinitiv)

FX Post Trade Product Director

Location: GBR-London-5 Canada Square

This is global role as a member of the Transactions Product Management team, responsible for product managing the implementation of Post Trade capabilities within the Transactions execution workflows across our four venues (Matching, Orderbook, PriceStream and FXall RFQ). Reporting to the Head of Transactions Product Management, you will use your extensive product management experience, industry knowledge, strategic vision and leadership and influencing skills to drive business results.

In addition, you will also have responsibility for regulatory reporting and FXall Settlement Centre.

Job Requirements

• Act as single point of accountability to drive the product requirements for all the post trade capabilities with FX Capital Markets
• Drive the implementation of these capabilities within legacy and strategic platforms
• Take high-level requirements from multiple proposition leads and converts them into multi-phase product roadmaps, that optimize scalability and business needs for the development teams to build product solutions
• Offer expert advice and counsel on how best to deliver (build / buy / partner) product solutions against the needs of the business sector and interfaces directly with the customers to validate detailed product requirements

Experience

• Extensive experience in a similar role within product management, preferably FX, and with deep experience of post trade capabilities
• Strong track record of building industry leading vendor solutions
• Proven to lead a team of product managers delivering large scale mission critical systems
• Highly strategic approach, the ability to create an execution roadmap and drive execution of the plan
• Persuasive and influential, possessing well-developed communication, collaboration and presentation skills
• Experience communicating complex trading ideas to key stakeholders is critical

Knowledge/Skills

• Experience of market leading FX post trade products
• Deep FX product management
• Ability to understand and apply technology solutions to product development
• Proven ability to influence cross-functional teams without formal authority to execute product strategy

Education

• Business or technical degree preferred

People are at the heart of what we do and drive the success of our business. Our culture of connecting, creating opportunity and delivering excellence shape how we think, how we do things and how we help our people fulfil their potential.

We embrace diversity and actively seek to attract individuals with unique backgrounds and perspectives.  We break down barriers and encourage teamwork, enabling innovation and rapid development of solutions that make a difference. Our workplace generates an enriching and rewarding experience for our people and customers alike. Our vision is to build an inclusive culture in which everyone feels encouraged to fulfil their potential.

We know that real personal growth cannot be achieved by simply climbing a career ladder – which is why we encourage and enable a wealth of avenues and interesting opportunities for everyone to broaden and deepen their skills and expertise.

As a global organisation spanning 70 countries and one rooted in a culture of growth, opportunity, diversity and innovation, LSEG is a place where everyone can grow, develop and fulfil your potential with meaningful careers.