Key responsibilities

Product ownership

• Own the backlog for your area, and set priorities using client demand, regulatory deadlines, technical dependencies and commercial value.

• Maintain the roadmap for your area and explain it to internal leadership, client-facing teams and, where needed, clients.

• Decide whether a request becomes standard product, a configuration option, an integration, or something the client or a partner does outside the product.

• Work with product management leadership on packaging and pricing inputs, where relevant.

Requirements and specifications

• Collect and consolidate requirements from clients, implementation and support teams, user groups and regulatory sources.

• Write user stories, functional specifications and acceptance criteria that engineers and testers can use without further explanation.

• Define data requirements, message formats, interfaces and non-functional needs such as volumes, performance, audit trail and resilience.

• Analyze gaps between the product and market practice or competing products.

Delivery and quality

• Take part in sprint planning, refinement, reviews and release governance.

• Review designs and demos with engineers before work is accepted.

• Define test scenarios and regression coverage and accept or reject completed work against the acceptance criteria.

• Track defects and escalations from clients to root cause and decide which become backlog items.

• Support release notes, documentation and training material, and the handover to implementation and support teams.

Stakeholder management

• Be the main contact between engineering, implementation, support, sales and clients for your area.

• Run client sessions, such as user groups and advisory forums, and bring back evidence of real needs.

• Present trade-offs and progress to senior stakeholders.

 

Required experience

• 5–15 years as a business analyst, product owner or functional consultant in post-trade or securities operations. 

• Experience on the vendor or product side, or on large implementations of packaged post-trade platforms, with a clear understanding of the difference between product and client-specific work.

• Strong understanding of the trade lifecycle from execution to settlement and accounting, and the controls around it.

• Experience writing user stories and specifications in agile delivery, working directly with engineers.

• Data and technical fluency: read data models and message specifications, write basic SQL, understand how interfaces and APIs are described. Deep programming skills are not required.

• Knowledge of Swift MT500 and MT300 series, and ISO 20022 messaging standards

• Experience working with regulated clients’ requirements on audit, change control and resilience.

Desirable

• Direct experience with Phase3, Torstone or a comparable packaged platform.

• Experience with product analytics, client advisory groups or competitor analysis.

• Knowledge of regulation affecting post-trade, such as settlement discipline, transaction reporting and shorter settlement cycles. 

• Explains complex processes in plain language to both operations experts and engineers.

• Practical exposure to AI-assisted exception handling in operations, such as triaging breaks and failures on top of existing systems.

• Recognized qualifications: MBA, CBAP, PSPO or CSPO, CFA or IMC, or similar.

Responsibilities

Key responsibilities

Product ownership

• Own the backlog for your area, and set priorities using client demand, regulatory deadlines, technical dependencies and commercial value.

• Maintain the roadmap for your area and explain it to internal leadership, client-facing teams and, where needed, clients.

• Decide whether a request becomes standard product, a configuration option, an integration, or something the client or a partner does outside the product.

• Work with product management leadership on packaging and pricing inputs, where relevant.

Requirements and specifications

• Collect and consolidate requirements from clients, implementation and support teams, user groups and regulatory sources.

• Write user stories, functional specifications and acceptance criteria that engineers and testers can use without further explanation.

• Define data requirements, message formats, interfaces and non-functional needs such as volumes, performance, audit trail and resilience.

• Analyze gaps between the product and market practice or competing products.

Delivery and quality

• Take part in sprint planning, refinement, reviews and release governance.

• Review designs and demos with engineers before work is accepted.

• Define test scenarios and regression coverage and accept or reject completed work against the acceptance criteria.

• Track defects and escalations from clients to root cause and decide which become backlog items.

• Support release notes, documentation and training material, and the handover to implementation and support teams.

Stakeholder management

• Be the main contact between engineering, implementation, support, sales and clients for your area.

• Run client sessions, such as user groups and advisory forums, and bring back evidence of real needs.

• Present trade-offs and progress to senior stakeholders.

Qualifications

Required experience

• 5–15 years as a business analyst, product owner or functional consultant in post-trade or securities operations. 

• Experience on the vendor or product side, or on large implementations of packaged post-trade platforms, with a clear understanding of the difference between product and client-specific work.

• Strong understanding of the trade lifecycle from execution to settlement and accounting, and the controls around it.

• Experience writing user stories and specifications in agile delivery, working directly with engineers.

• Data and technical fluency: read data models and message specifications, write basic SQL, understand how interfaces and APIs are described. Deep programming skills are not required.

• Knowledge of Swift MT500 and MT300 series, and ISO 20022 messaging standards

• Experience working with regulated clients’ requirements on audit, change control and resilience.

Desirable

• Direct experience with Phase3, Torstone or a comparable packaged platform.

• Experience with product analytics, client advisory groups or competitor analysis.

• Knowledge of regulation affecting post-trade, such as settlement discipline, transaction reporting and shorter settlement cycles. 

• Explains complex processes in plain language to both operations experts and engineers.

• Practical exposure to AI-assisted exception handling in operations, such as triaging breaks and failures on top of existing systems.

• Recognized qualifications: MBA, CBAP, PSPO or CSPO, CFA or IMC, or similar.

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