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We are a leading independent global asset manager, dedicated to delivering the best outcomes for our clients through a highly diversified range of actively-managed products. We are truly global, supporting our individual and institutional investors across a range of products, encompassing equities, fixed income, multi-asset and alternatives. Our high-energy and collaborative culture at Janus Henderson helps our client achieve their goals and ensures that our people love the place they work.
Our culture is the foundation for how we interact with clients and one another as part of our unique, people-focused work environment. We support a flexible hybrid working model that allows teams to build a strong and positive culture by inspiring innovation and increasing collaboration. Currently our hybrid working model allows employees to work 2 or more days in office and the remaining time remotely.
Employees and Managers will discuss and determine what schedule works best for them and the team, with additional flexibility available based on the role, business needs, and individual circumstances.
JHI Workplace Practices is subject to change as the future of work within our organization evolves.
JHI Workplace Practices is subject to change as the future of work within our organization evolves.
The department
The Global Technology department plays a crucial role in supporting the success of the business. We are responsible for developing and implementing state-of-the-art software and hardware maintenance to support our fund management, trading,
distribution and operational areas with secure, stable and resilient technology platforms.
Overview of the role
Your role will be to create and grow our products into something that our business will use daily. You’ll work with internal business leaders and partners to figure out what is working (or not), research and develop new features, own product initiatives, run and prioritize roadmaps, and lead the product owners within your Agile development teams.
You will have accountability for the full product management lifecycle of a new suite of products and the team responsible for delivering it. This is a highly collaborative role, where success requires getting into the weeds with the product and development teams, as well as being able to influence and engage executive and internal partners to deliver business value while creating internal products our business partners will love.
Duties and responsibilities
You will:
- Obsess over creating amazingly intuitive experiences
- Confidently communicate your strategy across the organization to influence stakeholders to align behind the objectives
- Lead, develop, and inspire an Agile Delivery team of analysts, subject matter experts, developers, architects, and data analysts across all Finance Technology product areas.
- Works with other leaders (Sales, Marketing, Investments, IT, Operations, Legal and HR) to coordinate efforts to achieve our goals and objectives.
- Establish or participate in Design Thinking, Agile, and Lean rituals which establish a rhythm for the team, promote ongoing communication, and iterative refinement of product initiatives
- Define Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) to measure success/failure; lead teams to align on and deliver OKRs for customer benefit, product quality and business outcomes
- Regularly and systematically use data to uncover opportunities, monitor product performance, and drive decision making
- Drive analysis for undefined or white space problems and make good decisions with ambiguous data
- Actively identify potential issues or single points of failure and act quickly to mitigate and remove identified risks.
- Implement with urgency to deliver solutions and on priorities
- Influence cross-team agendas proactively to deliver outcomes while balancing short and long term objectives
- Champion the use of the right technology to deliver on product initiatives and strategic intents
- Serve as an inspiring leader, giving practitioner, career guide, and mentor to your teams
- Carry out additional duties as assigned
Supervisory responsibilities
- Yes
Technical skills and qualifications
- Demonstrable experience in leading people and strategy through evaluating past decisions to improve effectiveness of future decisions and development efforts.
- Experience working with Product Management, Agile, Design Thinking, and Lean methodologies
- Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience required
- MBA or Master’s degree desirable
- 4+ years of experience in Agile product management
- 7+ years of financial services product experience
- Consistent track record of running systems change programmes in Finance
- Experience running SAP suite of products: ERP, BW, BPC and integrations with those system
- Knowledge of FP&A Product Anaplan is a plus
- Willingness and desire to lead global product teams that work across multiple disparate finance applications and locations.
- Experience implementing at least one major ERP lifecycle project
- Able to recommend process improvement options with confidence and expertise
- Understanding the business processes and how these are supported by the systems
- Shown success working with global, self-directed, virtual product teams
- In-depth understanding of Agile process and principles
- Outstanding communication, presentation, leadership, and relationship building skills
- Excellent organisational and time management skills
- Solid attention to detail
- Excellent interpersonal skills, with the ability to build and develop relationships internally and externally
Leadership & Stakeholder Management
- Experience of working in high volume and high pressure environments
- Actively support establishing and maturing the target operating model, including documenting processes and procedures
- Assist in identifying, assembling and reporting KPI’s and operational metrics
- Structure and facilitate team and partner meetings
- Ability to deliver and work effectively in a team-based manner to ensure the software delivered meets the business needs and timelines.
- Collaboration, specifically with other architects, to understand system dependencies and prioritizations
- Establish & facilitate regular partner prioritization and update meetings
- Handle and call out risks & issues through the appropriate channels
- Lead Root Cause Analysis and drive efforts to resolve root causes identified
- Responsible for incident, change and release management within functional workstream
- Support internal and external audit requests
Personal and Inter-Personnel
- Strong leader, comfortable communicating to C Level leadership and challenging existing paradigms
- Exceptional communication, presentation, influencing, and reasoning skills, including communicating technology concepts to non-technology personnel
- Ability to productively work across functional teams, with a result driven approach
- Proactive nature with confirmed problem solving capabilities
- Willingness to provide 360 degree coaching and feedback
- Take ownership for issues and work to resolve them in a practical manner which aligns with the strategic architecture
- Effective time management / planning – handles personal workload optimally, sets realistic and achievable targets and consistently delivers to them
- Customer focused, committed to excellence, strong attention to detail and a great teammate
Competencies required
In addition to putting clients first, acting like an owner, and succeeding as a team, the competencies for this role include:
- Exceptional communication skills – someone who is an engaging storyteller and is at ease addressing executives
- Creative problem solver who lives at the intersection of the human, business and technology dimensions. Deep fluency and experience in at least two of these dimensions, with a proven understanding of the third
- Blend of both strategic and tactical thinking – someone who can identify and prioritize opportunities in highly ambiguous contexts, and then organize work in deep detail, thus aligning long term vision with iterative execution
- Ability to champion strategic technology initiatives
- Strong quantitative background to support data-informed decision making
- Flexible, adaptable and ability to respond effectively to changing business needs
Ongoing competence in the role to be assessed, in line with applicable regulatory requirements, by:
- Annual performance appraisal
- Completion of all assigned compliance training
Compliance requirements
At a minimum the role will require you to:
- Place the interest of Janus Henderson’s Clients first, act in accordance with TCF (Treating Customers Fairly) principles
- Understand and follow laws and regulations applicable for your role, seeking the help of your supervising manager or Compliance if additional guidance is required
- Understand and abide by all Janus Henderson policies applicable to your role, and seek support/guidance of the policy owner guidance when required
- You are ultimately accountable for your actions and responsible for seeking further information on any or all of the above as necessary.
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Annual Bonus Opportunity: Position is eligible to receive an annual discretionary bonus award from the profit pool. The profit pool is funded based on Company profits. Individual bonuses are determined based on Company, department, team and individual performance.
Benefits: Janus Henderson is committed to offering a comprehensive total rewards package to eligible employees that includes; competitive compensation, pension/retirement plans, and various health, wellbeing and lifestyle benefits. To learn more about our offerings please visit the Why Join Us section on the career page here.
Janus Henderson Investors is an equal opportunity / Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status.
Janus Henderson (including its subsidiaries) will not maintain existing or sponsor new industry registrations or licenses where not supported by an employee’s job functions (as determined by Janus Henderson at its sole discretion).
