Product Manager, Corporate Actions

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, which manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Product Manager, Corporate Actions based in Italy. As a Product Manager, Corporate Actions, you will own the end-to-end product lifecycle for critical post-trade operations within a rapidly growing financial infrastructure environment. You will oversee the systems, data quality, vendor relationships, and workflows that ensure corporate actions are processed accurately, efficiently, and on time. Working at the intersection of product, engineering, operations, and compliance, you will turn complex financial requirements into scalable, reliable solutions. Your work will support the expansion into new asset classes, international markets, and institutional partnerships. You will also help automate operational processes while maintaining the accuracy and controls required in a regulated financial services environment. This role offers the opportunity to shape essential brokerage infrastructure and progressively expand your impact across clearing, reconciliation, and financial data integrity within a globally distributed team. Accountabilities - Own the Corporate Actions Product Lifecycle: Define and execute the product roadmap for announcement capture, entitlement calculations, mandatory and voluntary corporate actions, payouts, and exception handling. Establish clear timelines, acceptance criteria, and quality controls to ensure accurate and timely processing at scale. - Manage Vendors and Data Quality: Oversee relationships with corporate action data providers, improve announcement validation workflows, and establish reliable data quality standards to support safe and effective automation.

- Drive Operational Automation: Design and implement phased automation for mandatory corporate actions and pre-reconciliation processes, balancing efficiency with accuracy, risk management, and regulatory requirements. - Improve Operations and Observability: Develop entitlement worksheets, dashboards, and monitoring tools to track processing times, workloads, progress, and credited amounts. Enable partial processing so that unaffected accounts or partners can continue to be processed when exceptions arise. - Support International Expansion: Coordinate corporate actions readiness for new international markets, ensuring systems, workflows, and operational processes can accommodate additional markets, event types, and institutional partners. - Strengthen Upstream Data Governance: Collaborate with engineering teams to maintain consistency across security master data, brokerage systems, ledgers, and other critical financial records. - Coordinate Cross-Functional Delivery: Work closely with engineering, operations, compliance, tax, finance, and legal teams to translate business and regulatory needs into clear product requirements and deliver solutions against operational deadlines. - Contribute to Broader Post-Trade Infrastructure: As the role evolves, take on additional ownership across clearing and post-trade systems, including security master management, ledger integrity, multi-market readiness, and the alignment of brokerage, custody, and accounting records. Requirements: - Corporate Actions Expertise: Strong practical knowledge of brokerage corporate action processing, including announcement sources, record dates, ex-dates, payment dates, entitlement calculations, and mandatory versus voluntary events. Experience managing high-volume corporate action periods within a broker-dealer, clearing firm, custody provider, or post-trade platform is essential. - Product Management Experience: Proven experience in product management or technical program management within fintech, brokerage, or financial infrastructure. Ability to develop product roadmaps, prioritize backlogs, define requirements, and deliver reliable solutions under strict operational deadlines.