Job Description

About the Opportunity Job Type: Permanent

Application Deadline: 01 November 2022

Department Description

The Finance Technology function provides systems development, implementation and support services for FIL's Finance Team. We support several functions spanning across Business Finance & Management Accounting, Financial Accounting & Analytics, Taxation, Global Procurement, Corporate Treasury, and several other teams in all of FIL's international locations, including UK, Japan, China and India.

We provide IT services to the Fidelity International businesses, globally. These include development and support of business functions that underpin our financial accounting and decision making for global CFO Orgs, and we implement multiple systems including ERP platforms, home grown apps and third party products. We are system providers to key process lifecycles such as Procure to Pay (P2P/Global Procurement), Record to Report (R2R), Order to Cash (O2C), Acquire to Retire (A2R). We also manage systems to enable cash management, forex trading and treasury operations across the Globe. We own warehouses that consolidate data from across the organisations functions to provide meaningful insights.

We are currently running a major multi-year global transformation programme that includes construction of critical new in-house applications, catering to several functional workstreams.

Purpose of your role

The vacancy is for a highly motivated Programme Manager who will be responsible for end to end delivery of software products (systems, applications and platforms) for use by FIL's Finance professionals. We define a program as an initiative that enables the value delivery across different stakeholders in a transparent way through structured approach.

The right candidate will provide thought leadership to

• Create and maintain a program plan in line with business strategy & objectives, including the total cost of ownership
• Influence business and technology stakeholders

• Facilitate clear communication and collaboration
• Understand global investment management landscape
• Understand modern programming and testing constructs and be able to leverage the best methodology for the product(s)
• Lead, develop and work with a high performing, self-organised & cross functional team

• Create and maintain end-to-end program plan for a product/platform or set of products and enable delivery of business value across multiple stakeholders.
• Form cross-functional team, and help drive target operating model, end-to-end architecture, solution detailing, dependency integration, acceptance testing, and implementation strategy.
• Establish governance structure and manage resources, cost and communication.

• Deploy Agile delivery methods, extreme programming, elastic infra/Cloud preference, micro-services enabled APIs and 12-factor app principles, working in a largely DevOps culture, to deliver great products
• Work towards achieving a relatively constant and predictable velocity and frequent smaller releases to deliver expected value. Force deliberate conversations to constantly balance the agility vs technical debt trade-offs.
• Exercise end-to-end ownership of the products - starting from ideation till expiry, using the DevOps model with as less hand offs as possible
• Deliver features with high test automation and ensure deployments into production on demand and independent of interfacing products
• Work collaboratively with other product/program managers and keep business stakeholders sufficiently involved during delivery of features.
• Develop real time and shared information delivery mechanisms like build radiators, dashboards and health metrics. Run product working groups and steering committees and influence Investment decisions based on current and future direction.
• Monitor the delivery metrics to spot trends and take appropriate actions in the spirit of relentless pursuit of quality

• Create a product team comprising of poly-skilled people with ability to work across different technology stacks
• Foster a culture whereby team members are empowered to make decisions in the best interest of the product and willingly take high personal accountability for their decisions & actions
• Guide the team such that they embrace the constructs of a high-performing, self-organising team - ensuring team goals take precedence over individual goals
• Facilitate intelligent risk taking and use every mistake as a team learning opportunity. Encourage people to think out of the box and challenge norms smartly without diluting quality and controls in the production environment
• Continuously communicate within the team to ensure clear visibility and understanding of their individual roles and growth aspirations. Connect them with other appropriate opportunities within the team, department or the wider organisation.
• Lead by example and earn the respect of your team - use principles from 'servant-leader' concept.
• Be the senior counsel in the department and contribute materially into other departmental and organisational initiatives

• Overall 12-15 years' experience with at least 5+ year experience in software delivery & programme management, handling large teams including 3rd Party - leading complex projects and products.
• Strong leadership and communication skills and the ability to teach and learn from others
• Previous success working with an agile development team. Good knowledge of industry standard project management methodologies
• Ability to differentiate between project and product goals and deliver to both
• Ability to work collaboratively with others and navigate complex decision making
• Experience in delivering and maintaining products (including 3rd party) with cross geography team is a plus
• Experience of tools like Atlassian suite, Pivotal Tracker, Basecamp etc. is desired.
• Experience / Background with Corporate Finance concepts and / OR ERP implementations and relevant industry terminology is desired
• Operate largely independently, with minimal guidance and monitoring. Proven ability to work well under pressure and in a team environment
• Good communication, influencing & negotiation skills. Self-motivated, flexible, responsible, and a penchant for quality