Product Owner

About the Opportunity

**Job Type**: Permanent

Application Deadline: 29 August 2025

Job Description

Title Product Owner, Fund Solutions

Department Fund Servicing & Oversight

Location Gurgaon / Bengaluru

Reports To Associate Director

Level Senior Manager

We’re proud to have been helping our clients build better financial futures for over 50 years. How have we achieved this? By working together - and supporting each other - all over the world. So, join our Fund Solutions team and feel like you’re part of something bigger.

As a flexible employer, we trust our people to perform their role in the way that works best for them, our clients and our business. We are a disability-friendly company and would welcome a conversation with you if you feel you might benefit from any reasonable adjustments to perform to the best of your ability during the recruitment process and beyond.

About your team

Fund Servicing and Oversight (FSO) is a key function within Asset Management Delivery, responsible for ensuring seamless execution of fund services across FIL’s investment vehicles—including retail funds, segregated mandates, real estate funds, private asset funds, and other products.

The team supports the full operational lifecycle, spanning Fund Accounting, Asset Servicing, IBOR Operations, Alternative Assets, Fund Solutions, and Shared Services. FSO ensures these services are delivered efficiently, accurately, and in line with regulatory obligations.

Within FSO, the Fund Solutions team drives the design, delivery, and oversight of operational change initiatives—ranging from regulatory-driven transformations to strategic platform enhancements.

About your role

The FA Delivery role within Fund Solutions is responsible for leading the implementation of operational change initiatives, with a strong focus on Fund Accounting, Middle Office and ABOR transformation. This includes delivering solutions that meet client, operational, and product requirements while integrating process improvements, technology upgrades, and regulatory changes.

You will play a key role in driving initiatives to enhance and future-proof the operating model. This involves close collaboration with upstream teams—including Corporate Actions, Pricing, Reference Data, and the Portfolio Services Group—as well as supporting new fund launches, particularly those requiring tailored solutions outside the standard model.

You will be accountable for ensuring that robust, well-structured transition plans are in place, and that governance and communication frameworks are effective, with clear oversight from senior stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities:
Change & Transformation - Fund Accounting
- Lead initiatives to drive operational and process improvements across fund accounting teams, ensuring alignment with strategic business goals.
- Preparing/supporting presentations for senior management discussions to drive key decisions around process design, project timelines and prioritization of deliveries.
- Analyze and document current-state processes, identify gaps, and design future-state solutions to support change and transformation efforts.
- Collaborate with stakeholders across Fund Accounting Operations, Technology and external vendors to gather requirements, define scope, and validate solutions.
- Drive the successful implementation of change projects by preparing functional specifications/business requirements, user stories, test cases, and managing UAT cycles.
- Act as a liaison between business and technical teams, translating complex operational needs into clear development tasks and deliverables.
- Monitor and report on project progress, risks, and issues; support resolution strategies and ensure projects stay within scope and timeline.
- Contribute to ongoing transformation programs by assessing impact, supporting communication and reinforcing adoption.
- Lead post-implementation reviews to assess the effectiveness of change initiatives, incorporating lessons learned into future efforts.

About you
- Bachelor’s degree in finance, Accounting, Business, or a related field.
- Minimum 10 years of experience within asset management, with a strong background in project management and documentation.
- Proven experience as a Business Analyst or Change Lead in large-scale operational change or transformation projects.
- Experience working on system implementations, upgrades, and vendor transitions.
- Ability to challenge and provide alternative solutions and put forward recommendations.
- Strong communications, leadership, project management, influencing, analytical, decision making, presentation and interpersonal skills.
- Comfortable leading workshops, facilitating discussions, and driving consensus among cross-functional teams.
- Agile methodology experience is advantageous but not essential.
- Project management certifications are preferred.

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