Director, POM Product Management — EMEA Fund Accounting

BNY; Wrocław; On-site; PLN 350,000 - 700,000; Full time

Job summary

BNY is seeking a Director, POM Product Management (Product Owner – EMEA Fund Accounting) to join our EMEA Fund Accounting product team based in Wroclaw, Poland. In this role, you will define a clear product vision, build a multi‑quarter roadmap, own the backlog, run demos, and coordinate release readiness with Engineering and Operations across EMEA.

The ideal candidate has 8–10 years in product ownership in financial services, strong fund accounting knowledge (NAV, pricing, corporate actions),

Qualifications

• 8-10 years of experience in product ownership or business/product analysis within financial services; 3-4 years focused on fund accounting or asset servicing.
• Strong working knowledge of fund accounting processes (NAV, pricing, corporate actions, reconciliation, financial reporting) and EMEA market context.
• Proven success owning a backlog and delivering complex builds in an agile environment; ability to write high‑quality user stories and acceptance criteria; familiarity with agile tooling (e.g., Jira or similar).
• Comfort with data and systems integration concepts (APIs, reference/pricing data, reconciliation, reporting).
• Excellent stakeholder management, communication, and decision‑making skills; able to balance client, operations, technology, and risk perspectives.
• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Accounting, Technology, or related field; advanced degree or professional certifications (e.g., CSPO/PSPO) are a plus.

Responsibilities

• Define and communicate a clear product vision aligned to EMEA fund accounting needs and client outcomes, ensuring capabilities enable accurate, timely, and controlled operations.
• Build and maintain a multi‑quarter roadmap balancing client priorities, regulatory requirements, operational efficiency, and risk controls; translate strategy into well‑structured epics, features, and user stories with crisp acceptance criteria and measurable outcomes.
• Own and prioritize the backlog to maximize value; lead backlog refinement, sprint planning, and review ceremonies with Engineering and Operations; ensure stories meet “definition of ready” and increments meet “definition of done,” including testing and control requirements.
• Represent fund accounting processes (e.g., NAV calculation, pricing, corporate actions, reconciliation, financial reporting) in product decisions; incorporate regional considerations for EMEA structures and evolving regulatory expectations.
• Partner with upstream/downstream teams (data sourcing, pricing, custody, FX, tax, financial reporting) to ensure end‑to‑end straight‑through processing (STP) and control coverage.
• Serve as the primary contact for Operations, Technology, Client Service, and Risk/Compliance stakeholders across EMEA; run demos, capture feedback, and drive change adoption and training for new capabilities; communicate release plans, milestones, and impacts at appropriate cadences.
• Coordinate release readiness (UAT, regression, production checklists, runbooks) with Technology and Operations; embed control requirements (auditability, reconciliations, entitlements, data quality checks) into product design.
• Track and improve performance using KPIs (e.g., NAV timeliness, break rates, cycle time, defect escape rate, adoption); identify and manage cross‑team dependencies; proactively surface risks, mitigation plans, and escalation paths.

Skills

Backlog management

Agile / Scrum

Stakeholder management

Financial services knowledge

User stories & acceptance criteria

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Accounting, Technology

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Job description

BNY is seeking a Director, POM Product Management (Product Owner – EMEA Fund Accounting) to join our EMEA Fund Accounting product team based in Wroclaw, Poland. In this role, you will define a clear product vision, build a multi‑quarter roadmap, own the backlog, run demos, and coordinate release readiness with Engineering and Operations across EMEA.

The ideal candidate has 8–10 years in product ownership in financial services, strong fund accounting knowledge (NAV, pricing, corporate actions),