Product Owner, Vice President- Tax Data Transformation

About Citco:

The market leader. The premier provider. The best in the business. At Citco, we’ve been the front-runner in our field since our incorporation in 1948 led to the evolution of the asset servicing sector itself. This pioneering spirit continues to guide us today as we innovate and expand, push beyond the boundaries of our industry, and shape its future. From working exclusively with hedge funds to serving all alternatives, corporations and private clients, our organization has grown immensely across asset classes and geographies. For us, this progress is a pattern that we’ll only maintain as we move forward, always prioritizing our performance. So for those who want to play at the top of their game and be at the vanguard of their space, we say: Welcome to Citco.

About the Team & Business Line:

Fund Administration is Citco’s core business, and our alternative asset and accounting service is one of the industry’s most respected. Our continuous investment in learning and technology solutions means our people are equipped to deliver a seamless client experience. 

The Citco tax team provides compliance services for numerous hedge and private equity funds which apply a variety of investment strategies and fund structures, including domestic and offshore side‐by‐side entities, master‐feeder structures and fund‐of‐funds

As a core member of our team - Data Transformation Office, you will be working with some of the industry’s most accomplished professionals to deliver award-winning services for complex fund structures that our clients can depend upon. 
 

Your Role: 

As a Product Owner, you will drive the strategic development of Tax solutions on Citco’s Data platform. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, stakeholders, and technical teams to ensure that the reporting and data solutions meet the needs of Citco’s Tax clients.  You will assist technology teams in migration of Tax reporting application onto Databricks and implementation of Citco’s centralized data platform. 

• Transform the high-level vision and requirements defined in collaboration with Product Manager into detailed user stories that align with business objectives 
• Contribute to product vision and align roadmap to strategic goal
• Create and maintain extensive documentation to help scale self-service knowledge dissemination
• Work with Product Manager and stakeholders to prioritize product enhancements
• Effectively communicate the planned features product objectives to the development team. 
• Work with development team to identify, define and organize the steps required to deliver each iteration
• Understand high-level technical design by collaborating with tech lead and development team 
• Organize sprint reviews and demos and participate in all agile ceremonies 
• Ensure quality of work being delivered by being involved in testing efforts
• Work closely with scrum master to plan releases that are goal focused and have positive ROI 
• Manage expectations of senior management and stakeholders, facilitate steering committees, and provide regular status reports

Product development

• Through partnership with the business, define, sponsor and steer development initiatives
• Influence and guide technology, project management and operations team in solution delivery
• Maintain and develop expertise and keep abreast of market trends/direction and competitors
• Collaborate with the other product teams on prioritization and reuse of functionality

Technology

• Horizon scanning for disruptive technology
• Understand high-level technical design by collaborating with tech lead and development team
• Leverage core Citco expertise to deliver consistency for clients across various lines of businesses 

Services

• Create and maintain standard product offerings
• Define and guide strategic changes to reporting and data management

About You:

• 5-10 years hands on experience in product ownership, business analysis and documentation.
• Experience with US tax compliance services for private equity funds, hedge funds or investment partnership clients involving a variety of investment strategies and fund structures
• Strong skills in using MS Excel – you are comfortable with formulas, understand the basics of macros and pivot tables, and can navigate and understand work