Reporting Product Manager

Kurtosys Systems Inc.; Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 70 000 - 110 000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking financial technology company as a Senior Product Manager, where you'll lead the creation of innovative products that enhance operational efficiency and ensure regulatory compliance for asset managers globally. This role focuses on understanding customer needs and translating them into successful product strategies. You'll work within an Agile framework, collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality solutions. If you're passionate about shaping the future of client engagement in the financial services industry, this is your chance to make a significant impact.

Benefits

Group risk cover

Employee wellbeing program

Access to learning platforms

Flexible work hours

Relaxed dress code

20 days paid leave

Open & collaborative culture

Regular staff appreciation events

Qualifications

• Deep understanding of the asset management industry and its challenges.
• Excellent communication skills to influence diverse audiences.
• Strong analytical skills for product requirements and decision-making.

Responsibilities

• Conduct user research and analyze market trends in asset management.
• Manage the entire product lifecycle from ideation to launch.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with various teams for product success.

Skills

Domain Expertise (Asset Management)

Communication & Collaboration

Strategic Thinking & Execution

Requirements Elicitation & Prioritisation

Product Discovery & Design

Agile Product Development

Data Analysis & Decision-Making

Technical Proficiency

Tools

Jira

HTML

CSS

JavaScript

Job description

ABOUT US:

Kurtosys is a financial technology company that enables asset managers to construct and distribute critical sales, marketing, and client reporting materials via document or digital formats (websites and portals). Founded in 2002, Kurtosys operates across four global offices.

The Kurtosys team has a deep understanding of working at a global scale with data, information design, industry regulations and compliance issues. We work with some of the world's largest financial brands, including banks, wealth managers, mutual fund providers, and alternative investments.

THE OPPORTUNITY:

We are seeking a well-rounded, Senior Product Manager to lead the creation and launch of innovative, customer-centric products that directly impact the operational efficiency, profitability, and regulatory compliance for asset managers globally. You'll be responsible for understanding our customers' evolving needs in this specialised domain and translating them into successful product strategies and execution. This role will be within the Reporting Space, focussing on document production, automation and document storage.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Deeply understanding the asset management landscape: Conducting user research with asset managers, analysing market trends, and identifying unmet needs related to operational efficiency, profitability, and regulatory compliance. This includes understanding the specific regulatory challenges they face (e.g., MiFID II, GDPR, etc.).

• Utilising Design-Led Thinking: Employing design-led principles to understand user needs, explore potential solutions, and create user-centered products. This includes conducting user interviews, creating prototypes, and testing designs with target users supported by our product design team.
• Defining and prioritising product roadmaps: Developing a clear product vision and strategy focused on solving key challenges for asset managers, such as streamlining workflows, automating processes, reducing costs, and ensuring adherence to regulatory requirements. Prioritising features and releases based on their potential impact on these three key areas.
• Agile Methodology: Working within an Agile framework in collaboration with the Agile Delivery Leads, participating in planning and retrospectives to ensure efficient development and continuous improvement.
• Driving product execution: Managing the entire product lifecycle from ideation to launch, ensuring timely delivery and high quality, while always keeping the focus on the impact on operational efficiency, profitability, and regulatory compliance.
• Collaborating cross-functionally: Working closely with engineering, design, marketing, implementation and client services teams to bring products to market successfully. Understanding compliance is especially crucial in this heavily regulated industry.
• Measuring and iterating: Tracking key performance indicators (KPIs) related to operational efficiency (e.g., transaction processing time, error rates), profitability (e.g., cost savings, revenue increase), and regulatory compliance (e.g., audit findings, compliance violations). Using data-driven insights to improve future iterations and demonstrate the product's impact on these critical metrics.

REQUIRED SKILLS:

• Domain Expertise (Asset Management): Deep understanding of the asset management industry, including key players, market trends, regulatory landscape, and the specific challenges faced by asset managers.
• Communication & Collaboration: Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills, with the ability to effectively present to and influence diverse audiences, including senior stakeholders and technical teams. Demonstrated ability to foster collaborative relationships across departments.
• Strategic Thinking & Execution: Highly self-motivated and driven, with a proven ability to translate business needs and user insights into actionable product strategies. A proactive approach to problem-solving and continuous improvement.
• Requirements Elicitation & Prioritisation: Strong analytical skills and experience in eliciting, documenting, and prioritising requirements using tools like Jira. Ability to confidently push back on out-of-scope or unreasonable requests, clearly articulating the rationale behind decisions.
• Product Discovery & Design: Experience collaborating with design teams, design-led thinking and user research methodologies, including user interviews, prototyping, and usability testing.
• Agile Product Development: Solid understanding of Agile principles and practices, including sprint planning, backlog grooming, and retrospectives. Experience working within an Agile development environment.
• Data Analysis & Decision-Making: Strong analytical skills and experience using data to inform product decisions. Ability to define and track key performance indicators (KPIs) and use data to measure product success.
• Technical Proficiency: Familiarity with software development methodologies and technologies relevant to web applications (e.g., HTML, CSS, JavaScript) and data visualisation tools. Ability to effectively communicate with engineering teams.

BENEFITS:

We offer a competitive and comprehensive benefits package, including:

• Well-being: Group risk cover, employee wellbeing program
• Growth & development: Access to learning platforms, global collaboration opportunities
• Work-life balance: Flexible work hours, relaxed dress code, 20 days paid leave
• Culture: Open & collaborative culture, regular staff appreciation events

Outcome Metrics:

• Increase Client adoption for Reporting solutions
• Increase Client Satisfaction (CSAT) for Reporting solutions
• Reduction in Reporting related incidents
• Reduction in time launch new product features to market (Target 90 days)
• Reduction in implementation time for reporting clients (internal efficiency)
• Improved Customer Experience: Reduction in Reporting frustration clicks

FINAL THOUGHTS:

At Kurtosys a global SaaS FinTech, you'll have the opportunity to shape the future of client engagement in the financial services industry. We empower the world's most prestigious firms to build stronger relationships through our cutting-edge platform. We value innovation, initiative, and collaboration, and we're committed to the growth of our team members.

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