Product Director, Fund Accounting Platform Job Listing at SS&C Technologies in Basildon, England (Job ID R47537-Basildon, UK)

Description

SS&C is a leading provider of mission-critical, AI-powered technology and services empowering financial services and healthcare organizations to work smarter, faster, and securely. Founded in 1986, SS&C is headquartered in Windsor, Connecticut, and has offices worldwide. More than 23,000 financial services and healthcare organizations, from the world's largest companies to small and mid-market firms, rely on SS&C for expertise, scale, and technology.

Job Description

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Product Director for Fund Accounting Platform

Locations: London, Essex | Hybrid

The Opportunity

We are seeking a Product Director to define the vision, operating model and product strategy for a next-generation global fund accounting platform.

This individual will act as the business and domain leader for the programme, bringing deep expertise in fund accounting, investment operations and asset servicing. They will be responsible for designing the future-state product capabilities, target operating model and client proposition that will underpin the platform. This highly strategic leadership role will shape SS&C's long-term fund accounting capabilities and create a platform that supports a broad range of fund structures, jurisdictions, and investment products globally.

The successful candidate will possess extensive experience in fund accounting and investment operations and be capable of translating complex operational requirements into scalable platform capabilities.

What Success Looks Like

Within 12-24 months, you will:

• Deliver the target product vision and roadmap.
• Define the future-state fund accounting operating model.
• Establish product priorities for the initial platform releases.
• Create a scalable proposition supporting multiple jurisdictions.
• Secure executive and client sponsorship for the platform strategy.

What You Will Get To Do:

Product Vision & Strategy

• Define the long-term vision for a global fund accounting platform.
• Establish the product roadmap, strategic priorities and investment cases.
• Define the future-state operating model for fund accounting services.
• Ensure the platform supports growth across SS&C's global client base.
• Develop business cases and prioritisation frameworks for platform investment.

Fund Accounting Domain Leadership

Lead the design of capabilities supporting:

• NAV production
• General ledger management
• Multi-currency accounting
• Corporate actions processing
• Income and expense accruals
• Fund distributions
• Reconciliations
• Performance measurement
• Regulatory reporting
• Alternative investment structures
• Traditional fund structures

Client & Market Leadership

• Engage directly with asset managers, fund administrators and institutional clients.
• Gather market requirements and industry trends.
• Validate product direction against client needs.
• Represent SS&C at industry events and client forums.
• Develop competitive positioning against providers such as:

SimCorp Dimension, Eagle Accounting, Multifonds, Clearwater, FIS InvestOne

Target Operating Model Design

• Define workflows and operating processes.
• Establish service models and control frameworks.
• Design scalable exception management processes.
• Define reporting, oversight and governance requirements.
• Ensure operational resilience and regulatory compliance.

Stakeholder Leadership

• Act as the executive sponsor for product strategy.
• Partner closely with technology, operations and business leadership.
• Align platform priorities with wider SS&C strategy.
• Serve as the primary business decision-maker for product direction.

What You Will Bring:

Fund Accounting & Investment Operations

• 15+ years within fund accounting, fund administration or asset servicing.
• Extensive experience of operating or implementing fund accounting platforms.
• Deep expertise across:
  • NAV production
  • Securities accounting
  • Corporate actions
  • Income processing
  • Performance measurement
  • Fund administration
  • Regulatory reporting
  • Investment operations

Product Management & Transformation

• Proven ownership of large-scale financial services product portfolios.
• Experience leading platform transformation programmes.
• Track record developing multi-year product strategies.
• Experience building business cases and executive sponsorship.

Leadership

• Have an executive presence with senior stakeholders and clients
• Experience building and leading matrix organisations
• Strong Communication Skills
• Can demonstrate delivery leadership

Why You Will Love It Here!

• Competitive benefits include pension contributions, Private medical insurance and Life assurance
• Executive leadership development opportunities

• Flexibility: Hybrid Work Model
• Your Future: Professional Development Reimbursement, including access to SS&C University
• Work/Life Balance: Competitive holiday scheme
• Your Wellbeing: Competitive benefits designed to support the wellbeing of our staff
• Diversity & Inclusion: Committed to Welcoming, Celebrating and Thriving on Diversity
• Training: Hands-On, Team-Customised throughout your career

We encourage applications from people of all backgrounds to enable us to bring diverse perspectives to our thinking and conversation. It's important to us that we strive to have a workforce that is diverse in the widest sense.

Thank you for your interest in SS&C! If applicable, to further explore this opportunity, please apply directly with us through our Careers page on our corporate website @ www.ssctech.com/careers.

Unless explicitly requested or approached by SS&C Technologies, Inc. or any of its affiliated companies, the company will not accept unsolicited resumes from headhunters, recruitment agencies, or fee-based recruitment services.

Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

SS&C Technologies is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any applicant for employment or employee on the basis of race, color, religious creed, gender, age, marital status, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other classification protected by applicable discrimination laws.