Manuel Gosseye

Senior Product Owner with 15+ years of experience in regulatory reporting software for banks, XBRL and Agile product development within financial services. Proven track record leading distributed, cross-functional Agile squads, owning product vision and backlog for platforms used by banking clients across 10+ countries and driving stakeholder alignment between business, delivery teams and external standards bodies. Comfortable operating strategically while staying hands-on, with strong ownership mentality and a structured, quality-first approach, well suited to a complex enterprise environment.

Lead Product Owner at Regnology (2025-12 – 2026-08)

Regnology acquired our Wolters Kluwer FRR division so job content remained the same

Lead Product Owner at Wolters Kluwer (2024-01 – 2025-11)

• Own product vision and roadmap for the XBRLEngine regulatory reporting platform, leading a 9-person Agile squad (1 Scrum Master, 7 developers) spread across Ghent, Madrid, Tbilisi and Pune
• Sustain a zero dedicated-QA delivery model by embedding automated testing and CI/CD pipelines (TeamCity) into the squad's way of working
• Prioritize and manage the product backlog for tooling used by delivery teams supporting EBA, SRB and country-specific regulatory obligations in Belgium, the Netherlands, France, Germany, Singapore, Poland, Slovakia and more
• Serve as key point of contact for internal teams requiring tooling support, external banking clients requesting new features, and xbrl.org during the engine's certification process
• Drove the XBRLEngine to official XBRL.org certification (base and dimensional conformance)
• Automated the full "last-mile" reporting process, eliminating manual steps from the implementation workflows
• Operate in a SAFe environment, aligning roadmap and backlog priorities across multiple stakeholder groups and delivery teams
• Use Jira and Confluence daily for backlog, documentation and sprint management, and Miro quarterly to facilitate SAFe Program Increment (PI) planning sessions

Product Owner at Wolters Kluwer (2018-04 – 2024-01)

• Managed product backlog and sprint priorities for the same distributed 9-person squad (Ghent, Madrid, Tbilisi, Pune) building the XBRLEngine and supporting reporting tools
• Translated regulatory and customer requirements into clear user stories and functional specifications for developers
• Coordinated with internal teams and external banking customers to gather requirements and prioritize feature requests
• Built and matured the team's automated-testing culture, reducing dependency on manual QA
• Used Jira and Confluence daily for backlog and documentation, and Miro quarterly to support SAFe Program Increment (PI) planning

Senior Software Engineer at Wolters Kluwer FRR OneSumX Financial Studio (2017-05 – 2019-04)

• Became sole technical owner of all EBA "last-mile" reporting modules (COREP, FINREP, LIQREP) as the team scaled down from 6 to 1
• Implemented all reporting layouts, validation rules and xbrl configuration for these modules, ensuring customers could submit filings to regulators in the correct XBRL format
• Worked extensively with SQL Server and the underlying database schema, requiring a solid relational understanding across all tables to properly configure xbrl and validation logic
• Delivered and maintained reporting logic ensuring compliance with EBA regulatory specifications across multiple reporting frameworks
• Provided single-handed continuity of critical regulatory deliverables, safeguarding client reporting deadlines

Project Lead / Reporting Analyst at Financial Architects / Wolters Kluwer FRR OneSumX Financial Studio (2015-07 – 2015-10)

Project Lead / Reporting Analyst at Financial Architects / Wolters Kluwer FRR OneSumX Financial Studio (2011-01 – 2018-04)

• Analyzed detailed business and regulatory requirements imposed by regulators across multiple jurisdictions
• Defined quality assessment methods and acceptance criteria for developed reporting solutions
• Authored detailed design documentation, translating regulatory specifications into buildable software requirements
• Verified developed software against specified acceptance criteria prior to client delivery
• Tracked regulator publications and policy changes across jurisdictions, feeding requirement updates into the product backlog
• Prince2 methodology

Personal Advisor at Belfius (2009 – 2011)

Advised retail banking clients on financial products and services

Master of Science in Business Economics — Finance & Risk Management – HOGENT (2005 – 2009)