PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT ANALYST (RETAIL INVESTMENT AND PENSIONS) recruitment
The purpose of the role is to support the Product Manager in the development of the firm’s product proposition specifically within the retail investment and pension team. The successful candidate will be involved in liaising with clients to identify needs, and providing effective solution and working towards the development and delivery of final products by the internal teams. This role will require a sound technical understanding of the financial concepts utilised within the Company, combined with knowledge of retail life and pensions products, particularly within the UK market. A good understanding and knowledge of stochastic modelling is essential.
Core Responsibilities:
- The role will also involve direct engagement with clients to understand their technical challenges within the retail investment and pension field.
- Where appropriate, you will be involved in delivering bespoke client consulting projects.
- Responsibilities will involve participation in client meetings, requirements specification, analysis, producing client reports.
- Delivery of consulting projects will involve working with internal teams/resources to ensure requirements are understood, to support QA, and to ensure these deliverables are aligned with client requirements.
- Helping to interpret market requirements and translating these into product specifications that will enable the SDT to design and build new functionality and features within our software products and service offering.
- Where appropriate demonstrate functionality through Excel-based working examples and prototypes.
- Supporting the specification and delivery of consulting projects.
- Engaging with clients and our Client Service team to understand future demand and regulatory forces which will shape our products, either through new offerings or enhancements.
- Supporting research and development activities to strengthen and refine the retail product risk proposition.
Core Skills:
- Strong knowledge of financial services market
- Strong communication skills with experience of preparing appropriately pitched written and verbal communications.
- Ability to work well within a small team environment
- Understanding of software delivery cycle
Core Requirements:
- Post graduate degree or professional qualification such as Actuarial, CFA or FRM, or other similar investment or risk management qualification.
- First degree in finance, mathematics, mathematical sciences,, computing or other relevant discipline.
- Investment consultancy or other investment analysis experience gained within a life insurer, consultancy or asset manager.
- Some experience of asset-liability modelling preferred.
- Customer focused with experience of improving client satisfaction through continual service improvement.
- Knowledge of Excel/Visual Basic and experience in using this within a financial modelling context is also highly desirable. Experience of working within or alongside a software product development function would be beneficial.
- Displays a high level of competence in the functional areas of his/her job
- Has a level of functional expertise that allows (would allow) him/her to train or educate others
- Has a strong understanding of retail life and pensions and investment products and how clients currently use these to solve problems
- Has a solid understanding of financial concepts including risk management, asset management and the pricing of financial instruments
- Has sufficient knowledge of software development to be able to write cohesive product specifications.
Core-Asset Consulting offer specialist recruitment services to the Investment Banking, Financial Services, Secretarial Support, and Human Resources markets across Scotland.
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