Product Manager - FS

A leading organisation based in Abu Dhabi, undergoing significant growth and transformation across its tech capabilities.

• Own application lifecycle activities including roadmaps, backlogs, integrations and ongoing enhancements.
• Gather requirements and features from business users and translate them into functional requirements.
• Draft and maintain business processes under a business analysis remit.
• Act as an SME for assigned applications, reviewing functional requirements from a technical perspective.
• Research and compare applications, engaging with the business during R&D and selection phases.
• Engage with business users across operations, front office, legal, tax, and business operations during application selection and onboarding.
• Manage external vendors, enforcing SLAs, change management, release, and deployment processes.
• Ensure applications remain compliant with regulatory and Information Security requirements, feeding changes into the product roadmap.
• Use Jira / ITSM tool and ensure delivery aligns with agreed SLAs.
• Participate in weekly engagements with SMEs for certain application onboardings.

• Strong experience owning and managing enterprise applications within financial services. Buy side / asset management / investment management experience strongly preferred.
• Background combining product ownership, business analysis, and delivery/project management.
• Comfortable operating in environments with existing/live platforms rather than product invention.
• Strong technical understanding of how applications work (not a developer role), including:
  • Fundamentals of how applications are built
  • Object-oriented concepts (Exposure to Java and Python based apps)
• Confident working with vendors and technical teams, able to review functional requirements from an overview/technical standpoint.
• Excellent communication skills, comfortable working with busy senior stakeholders.
• Able to operate in organisations with multiple moving parts and evolving maturity.