IMOS instruction capture is the front door to Middle office services and is responsible for capturing, validating and enriching client instructions across multiple asset classes and ensuring seamless downstream integration with internal and external service providers like Custody and Fund Accounting. 

We provide the frontline validations across multiple asset classes, capturing in multiple formats e.g. XML, FIX, CSV and ensuring that minimum data requirements needed for all downstream processes are met by the client instruction. 

Instruction capture not only facilitates client instructions, we are also responsible for capturing life cycle events from internal sources such as expert systems for derivatives, and publishing downstream for services like settlements.

This is an exciting opportunity to join one of the teams driving the strategic transformation and delivering a state of the art, end-to-end solution providing middle office services to Securities Services franchise clients.

Position Summary:

As part of the Instruction Capture Product Development team for Investment Middle Office Services (IMOS). You will be an integral part of driving design and delivery of key aspects of the industry leading middle office product.

You will work with multiple stakeholders across product management, client service, operations, and technology to deliver key projects on the product road map. Gathering and drafting requirements to facilitate new business or functions and maintaining existing processes and interfacing with clients. 

You will support and help execute the roadmap and the priorities for your projects and be responsible for managing the detailed flows, communicating updates to stakeholders, and partnering with teams across the organization to drive the projects to completion.

In addition to interfacing with clients and product teams, this role offers an opportunity to further develop expertise across custody and trading products, asset manager and market processes. Given the pace of change, responsibilities of the role will include strategic thinking on FinTech, Big Data, etc. to provide a competitive product to the market.

Job Responsibilities: 

• Write scope and detailed business requirements documents to drive project delivery Interfacing with client and internal stake holders. 
• Support the of the build out of the Investment Middle Office Services Instruction Capture flow with End-to-end responsibility for delivering features and user story 
• Assist in maintaining the Instruction Capture Book of Work prioritization – lead and deliver small project and programs that dove tail into the wider program.
• Identify opportunities for product improvement and differentiation, simplification and efficiency, present and drive process improvements.
• Build strong partnerships and run project working group meetings with operations, technology, and other product areas to understand business flows and track project delivery. 
• Produce and present scorecards, to escalate challenges to IC leadership team and well coordinate and capture major decisions and status updates. 
• Propose and deliver strategic and scalable solutions to challenges and problems in the program and business
• Support delivery for changes through the full life cycle from requirements, UAT and production 

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills:

• 4 years in working on projects, providing client focused solutions or enhancing existing products or processes.
• Strong data analysis skills are required, with the ability to delve into data to learn trends in its behavior in order to drive how it can be used in the Instruction Capture space
• Strong Microsoft Excel, Visio, PowerPoint and JIRA skills
• Be able to operate in a cross-functional and matrixed organizational model and guide product enhancements through required development, testing, and release management. 
• Good program management skills with a working knowledge of SDLC in agile and waterfall methodologies a plus.
• Excellent communication capabilities, clearly and succinctly message with an understanding of appropriate level of detail for their stakeholders
• Energetic self-starter with strong collaboration skills, able to work with many different individuals and partner effectively with different groups. 

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills:

• Middle office or other multi asset class environment.
• Experience in an Instruction Capture capacity is a plus.