Business Manager - Omnis

Omnis Investments; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 61,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary £55,000

Bonus scheme 10%

Pension matching up to 5%

Critical illness cover

Death in service 4x salary

27 days holiday + bank holidays

Private medical insurance

Dental insurance

Job summary

Omnis Investments is seeking a Business Manager to enhance governance, oversight and reporting across the firm. You will coordinate strategic initiatives, support the CEO, and drive growth through effective management reporting and risk control monitoring.

Working closely with the CEO and Leadership Team, you will bridge investment, distribution, operations and compliance, delivering change initiatives and opportunities. The role is hybrid, based 3 days a week in London.

Qualifications

• Experience within the financial services industry
• Report writing skills
• Proven experience delivering value through strong governance, oversight and management reporting.
• Experience leading or influencing cultural change and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Strong commercial awareness with a customer-focused approach and the ability to influence business decisions.
• Experience working with investment, asset management, product or financial services environments would be advantageous.
• Demonstrated success coordinating cross-functional projects and strategic business initiatives.
• Excellent stakeholder management, communication and influencing skills, with the confidence to engage senior leaders.
• Highly organised and analytical, with strong project management, planning, problem-solving and prioritisation abilities.

Responsibilities

• Support senior leadership in delivering the firm’s strategic priorities.
• Coordinate and track key strategic initiatives including new fund launches, product development, and market expansion.
• Prepare executive and board-level materials including strategy updates and business performance reporting.
• Support governance structures including Product Governance Committee, Risk Committee, and Investment Committee.
• Support budgeting, cost monitoring, and financial planning processes.
• Produce management information and performance reporting for senior management.
• Assist with preparation of internal presentations and communications.

Skills

Experience in financial services

Report writing

Governance & management reporting

Stakeholder management

Cross-functional coordination

Strategic initiatives

Job description

The Business Manager for Omnis is responsible for enhancing governance and oversight and ensuring robust reporting and KPI management across the business to support the improvement of investment performance and to help grow the distribution of Omnis.

The role provides strategic coordination, operational oversight, and governance support to ensure the smooth running and growth of the firm.

Working closely with the CEO, the Business Manager acts as a bridge between investment, distribution, operations, compliance, and external service providers. The role involves supporting the delivery of the strategic initiatives while maintaining strong governance and regulatory oversight.

You will support the delivery of change initiatives and sales activities to enhance targeted adviser engagement. You will also help the CEO identify new business opportunities and help drive key strategic growth initiatives

Fostering key relationships at every level of the business, this role will support the CEO and Leadership Team to deliver operational service excellence through management reporting and risk & control monitoring activities.

This is a hybrid role, based 3 days a week from our London office.

The benefits:

• Salary - £55,000
• Bonus scheme - on target bonus - 10%
• Pension scheme - contribute up to 5% of your salary and Openwork will match you and put in an extra 5%
• Critical illness cover
• Death in service - 4x salary
• 27 days holiday + bank holidays, with the opportunity to buy up to an additional 10 days
• A range of other flexible benefits to include private medical insurance, dental insurance and much more.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES

• Support senior leadership in delivering the firm’s strategic priorities.
• Coordinate and track key strategic initiatives including new fund launches, product development, and market expansion.
• Prepare executive and board-level materials including strategy updates and business performance reporting.
• Support governance structures including Product Governance Committee, Risk Committee, and Investment Committee.
• Support budgeting, cost monitoring, and financial planning processes.
• Produce management information and performance reporting for senior management.
• Assist with preparation of internal presentations and communications.

What you will need to succeed:

• Experience within the financial services industry
• Report writing skills
• Proven experience delivering value through strong governance, oversight and management reporting.
• Experience leading or influencing cultural change and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Strong commercial awareness with a customer-focused approach and the ability to influence business decisions.
• Experience working with investment, asset management, product or financial services environments would be advantageous.
• Demonstrated success coordinating cross-functional projects and strategic business initiatives.
• Excellent stakeholder management, communication and influencing skills, with the confidence to engage senior leaders.
• Highly organised and analytical, with strong project management, planning, problem-solving and prioritisation abilities.

Why us:

At The Openwork Partnership, we're a dynamic, fast paced, and growing business with huge ambition. This is all made possible by the brilliant people who are part of The Openwork Partnership family. We're investing heavily in our colleagues, continuously striving to give them the platform to develop personally and professionally and reach their full potential. We’re also very proud of our culture, as one of the Best 100 Large Companies to work for in 2022.

The Openwork Partnership values, and respects individuality and we are committed to building an inclusive culture and environment which truly recognises and celebrates our colleague’s individual differences and identities – just like our financial advice, for us, it’s personal. We believe everyone can make a difference and your race, religion, disability, and gender will never be a barrier. At Openwork, we have a strong ethic of care for each other where you can balance a successful career with your commitments and interests outside of work. We believe that you will bring your best self to work if you are trusted to choose when, where and how you do it.