Product Specialist - London - Fintech

Full Time
London, UK
3 months ago

WE ARE: 

At Adaptive, we are a financial consulting firm that partners with capital, commodity, and digital market participants. We value differentiation through technology. Our experienced teams design and deliver complex front-office technology solutions using our proven accelerators to create long-term competitive advantage.

Our clients include the world’s leading investment banks, investment managers, fintech and capital market service providers. With a global reach with offices in London, New York, Barcelona, Manilla and Montreal, we have a proven track record of delivering powerful, elegant and intuitive trading technology solutions.

We are now looking for a Product Specialist to join our team in London. 

You will be reporting directly to the Programme Director for this engagement as well as Adaptive CTO. 

YOU ARE: 

  • A strategic thinker with great communication skills 
  • A great relationship builder with your team and clients
  • A problem-solver and team player

YOU WILL: 

  • Gather requirements and managing overall system workflows
  • Identify initial focus areas of most value with a data driven approach
  • Ensure requirements are future proof for growth and not just a like for like replacement
  • Manage scope and demands from different stakeholders
  • Develop roadmap and milestones
  • Identify workflow and feature gaps across streams
  • Feed back to Adaptive product team for enhancements
  • Provide oversight over the Business Analysts in different streams to ensure cohesiveness

YOU HAVE: 

  • Broad experience across Capital Markets
  • Background in consultancy, working with senior management to help shape and define strategic roadmaps
  • Deep understanding of Fidessa at a micro and macro level
  • Ideally experience in Fidessa migrations
  • Experience working in transformational change programmes
  • Experience in new product definition would be a plus

WHY US: 

  • To be immersed in high-standard engineering culture. Our fantastic team takes pride in crafting elegant solutions to complex technical problems but also loves sharing their knowledge and helping you grow professionally (we have extraordinary minds at Adaptive) You can learn from anyone here, which is  the beauty of it
  • To take part in the growth and development of a great company
  • Our teams feel free to speak up, make suggestions and raise concerns.
  • Collaborative team environment: we all work together, respect each other, and pitch in
  • Great consideration for work/life balance (highly-flexible, hybrid working model, well-being benefits…). The balance between professional and personal life is extremely important to us.
  • We work hard to provide a positive, collaborative and inclusive culture and to positively impact our staff and local communities through different well-being, diversity and inclusion programmes.

WHAT DO PEOPLE THINK OF US 🗣

You can check our Glassdoor page 🎉

BENEFITS:

We create benefits with YOU in mind. For Permanent employees only:

  • 25 days holiday
  • Family medical and dental
  • Life insurance and long term disability insurance
  • Gym subsidy
  • Pension with a 5% match
  • Season ticket loan
  • Cycle scheme

THE PROCESS

Long interview processes are stressful and boring, and that is not us 😉

We want to make sure that everything runs smoothly.

So here you will have three stage interviews:

1- A chat with one of our great recruiters.2- A zoom chat with two of our colleagues where they will ask you detailed questions about your knowledge and your experience3- A Face to Face interview (either in our office or via Zoom). ​​During this interview, we will dig even deeper. 

But don’t worry; everything will be explained to you step by step by your recruiter. 

Here is a little tip for you during those stages: 

Collaboration is extremely important to us, so don't hesitate to share your thoughts, ask questions, ask for help if needed, etc at any stages! 

DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION: 💜

Diversity and inclusion are key to a great workplace, and Adaptive is better when it’s more representative of the world around us. We want everyone to feel comfortable bringing their whole selves to work without any fear of judgment or negativity. All we ask is that our colleagues are respectful, collaborative, passionate about what they do, and have the skills needed to be successful in their roles.