Head of Risk, Compliance and Legal Technology

4 weeks ago


London, United Kingdom Janus Henderson Full time

Why work for us?

Janus Henderson is a leading global active asset manager. We exist to help our clients achieve their long-term financial goals. Our team exemplifies our values of putting clients first, acting like owners and succeeding as a team. Our culture is high-energy, collaborative, and forward-thinking with opportunities to grow in an exciting career. We invite you to consider joining our dynamic, global team

Our culture is the foundation for how we interact with clients and one another as part of our unique, people-focused work environment. We support a flexible hybrid working model that allows teams to build a strong and positive culture by inspiring innovation and increasing collaboration. Currently our hybrid working model allows employees to work 3 or more days in office and the remaining time remotely.

Your opportunity

As the Head of Risk, Compliance and Legal Technology, your role will be to create and grow our products into something that our business will use daily. You’ll work with internal business leaders and stakeholders to determine what is working (or not), research and develop new features, own product initiatives, manage and prioritize roadmaps, and lead the product owners within your Agile development teams.

You will have accountability for the full product management lifecycle of a new suite of products and the team responsible for delivering it. This is a highly collaborative role, where success requires being able to get into the weeds with the product and development teams, as well as being able to influence and engage executive and internal stakeholders to deliver business value while creating internal products our business partners will love.
- Confidently communicate your strategy across the organization to influence stakeholders to align behind the objectives
- Define Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) to measure success/failure; lead teams to align on and deliver OKRs for customer benefit, product quality and business outcomes
- Influence cross-team agendas proactively to deliver outcomes while balancing short and long-term objectives
- Regularly and systematically use data to uncover opportunities, track product performance, and drive decision making
- Drive analysis for undefined or white space problems and make good decisions with ambiguous data
- Prioritize, negotiate and remove blockers to orchestrate successful launch or optimization cycles
- Champion the use of the right technology to deliver on product initiatives and strategic intents
- Carry out other duties as assigned

What to expect when you join our firm
- Hybrid working and reasonable accommodations
- Generous Holiday policies
- Excellent Health and Wellbeing benefits including corporate membership to ClassPass
- Paid volunteer time to step away from your desk and into the community
- Support to grow through professional development courses, tuition/qualification reimbursement and more
- All-inclusive approach to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
- Maternal/paternal leave benefits and family services
- Complimentary subscription to Headspace - the mindfulness app
- All employee events including networking opportunities and social activities
- Lunch allowance for use within our subsidized onsite canteen

Must have skills
- Proven experience in and passion for building and implementing great products
- Experience working with Product Management, Agile, Design Thinking, and Lean methodologies
- Fluent in risk, compliance and legal business processes within an asset management firm paired with expertise in latest supporting technologies
- Experience leading products leveraging cloud data technologies (e.g. Snowflake) and enterprise data strategies.
- Operate strategically; can communicate, prioritize and deliver against a clear product vision in alignment with enterprise objectives
- Strong executive presence and stakeholder management capabilities
- Expert in driving work breakdown structures that enable high speed to market
- Experience leading within a global organization
- Strong transformational leadership skills with proven ability to lead through change

Nice to have skills
- Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience
- MBA or Master’s degree
- Experience in Agile product management
- Financial services product experience

Supervisory responsibilities
- Yes

Potential for growth
- Mentoring
- Leadership development programs
- Regular training
- Career development services
- Continuing education courses

You will be expected to understand the regulatory obligations of the firm, and abide by the regulated entity requirements and JHI policies applicable for your role

Janus Henderson (including its subsidiaries) will not maintain existing or sponsor new industry registrations or licenses where not supported by an employee’s job functions (as determined by Janus Henderson at its sole discretion).

All applicants must be willing to comply with the provisions of Janus Henderson Investment Advisory Co


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