About the Role
As Product Owner, Charles River Front Office Support, you'll be the primary business-facing owner of Charles River across Fidante's investment teams. You'll work closely with Portfolio Managers, Traders, Operations, Technology teams and external service providers to support front-office workflows, drive platform enhancements and ensure the investment platform continues to evolve alongside business needs. This role combines platform ownership, stakeholder engagement, change delivery and continuous improvement within a sophisticated investment management environment.
Responsibilities
- Act as the business owner for Charles River front-office functionality
- Provide day-to-day support to investment teams using Charles River
- Support onboarding of new instruments, workflows and front-office capabilities
- Manage change initiatives, system upgrades and feature releases
- Act as the primary contact for Charles River defects and platform issues
- Coordinate issue triage, prioritisation and resolution
- Gather and prioritise business requirements and enhancement opportunities
- Coordinate testing, implementation and adoption of new capabilities
- Build strong relationships across investment, operations and technology teams
Requirements
- Demonstrated experience supporting, administering or owning Charles River IMS/CRIMS within a funds management or asset management environment
- Strong understanding of front-office trading, portfolio management and investment workflows, with the ability to engage credibly with Portfolio Managers, Traders and investment stakeholders
- Experience in platform ownership, platform support, business analysis, product ownership or investment technology
- A track record of driving platform enhancements, process improvements and user adoption
- Strong stakeholder management (including vendor management) skills, with the ability to build relationships across business, technology and external service providers
- A continuous improvement mindset and a passion for optimising investment platforms and user experience
Skills
- Charles River expertise
- Front-office investment workflows
- Platform ownership
- Platform support
- Business analysis
- Product ownership
- Investment technology
- Stakeholder management
- Vendor management
Location
- Hybrid
Work Type
- Permanent
- Hybrid
About the Company
- Fidante are one of Australia’s largest active investors, offering compelling strategies across equities, fixed income, and alternative assets, via partnerships with leading investment teams.
- Fidante is a multi-boutique investment manager, wholly owned by Challenger Limited an ASX-listed investment management firm managing $123.9 billion in assets (as at 30 June 2025).
- We achieve our goals by providing a work environment where people from diverse backgrounds, with a range of skills and experiences can contribute and succeed.
- Fidante is entering a significant new chapter, with the implementation of Charles River and State Street Alpha reshaping how investment teams, operations and service providers work together.
- As part of this transformation, we're building the team that will support, evolve and ultimately own the new operating environment long after implementation is complete.
- This role will play a key part in ensuring Charles River continues to deliver an effective, scalable and business-aligned front-office platform across multiple investment affiliates.
- This is an opportunity to become the long-term owner of a critical investment platform within a business that is investing heavily in its future operating model.
- You'll have genuine influence over how the platform evolves while working closely with investment teams across the Fidante network.
Equal Opportunity
- We value inclusion and diversity of thought, promote flexible working practices so our people can integrate their work and personal lives, and are proud to be a Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA) Employer of Choice for Gender Equality.
- We believe in bringing your authentic self and a belonging in our culture.
- We are prideful in participating in the Australian Workplace Equality Index (AWEI) as a national benchmark on LGBTQ+ workplace inclusion and best practice in Australia.
- We offer the opportunity for a broad career experience and value people who are inquisitive and rigorous and are driven to make a difference.
