Fixed Income - Business Analysis/ Product Owner - Vice President

• Take full end-to-end accountability for defining, prioritizing, and delivering the Fixed Income Post-Trade Book of Work.

• Formulate a multi-year product roadmap aligned with organizational goals, regulatory imperatives, and operational efficiency targets.

• Translate complex business problems into clear product epics, user stories, acceptance criteria, and measurable business outcomes.

• Manage capacity and budget allocations across development pods, optimize resource utilization and release velocity.

• Manage capacity and budget allocations across development pods, optimize resource utilization and release velocity.

• Settlements: Drive transformation across global settlement mechanisms (e.g., Euroclear, Clearstream, DTC, Fedwire, local market CSDs), fail management, and cash/securities reconciliation.

• Trade Confirmation & Matching: Lead product enhancements for electronic trade affirmation/confirmation platforms (e.g., Trax, DTCC CTM, SWIFT messaging: MT/MX ISO 20022).

• Regulatory Reporting: Oversee product compliance with international regulatory reporting regimes impacting Fixed Income (e.g., MiFIR/MiFID II, EMIR, Dodd-Frank, FINRA TRACE, CAT, CSDR).

• Proactively monitor market structure changes, industry mandates, and central clearing counterparty (CCP) rules to ensure product adaptability.

• Proactively monitor market structure changes, industry mandates, and central clearing counterparty (CCP) rules to ensure product adaptability.

• Build and sustain relationships with key stakeholders, including Desk Heads, Operations Leadership, Technology Directors, Risk & Control Partners, and Legal/Compliance Officers.

• Navigate competing priorities across multiple business lines through structured trade-off analyses, data-driven insights, and executive negotiation.

• Run steering committees, backlog prioritization sessions, and executive status reviews, clearly communicating product vision, risks, and ROI.

• Run steering committees, backlog prioritization sessions, and executive status reviews, clearly communicating product vision, risks, and ROI.

• Act as the dedicated Agile Product Owner across cross-functional engineering and QA squads.

• Lead backlog grooming, sprint planning, sprint reviews, and acceptance sign-offs.

• Define and monitor key performance indicators (KPIs) and key risk indicators (KRIs) to quantify product adoption, operational STP (Straight-Through Processing) rates, and risk mitigation.

• Champion best-in-class product management practices, ensuring adherence to change governance, SDLC frameworks, and audit controls.

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in finance, Economics, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (Master’s or MBA preferred).

• Experience: 8+ years of total financial services / fintech experience, with at least 4+ years in a senior Product Owner, Product Manager, or Business Analyst role.

• Subject Matter Expertise: In-depth knowledge of Fixed Income asset classes (Bonds, Treasuries, Repos, Security Lending and Borrowing instruments) and post-trade lifecycle.

• Core Technical/Operations Acumen:

• Solid grounding in SWIFT messaging standards (ISO 15022 and ISO 20022), FIX protocol, and trade flow architecture.

• Comprehensive understanding of bilateral and central clearing, tri-party repo mechanics, and exception handling workflows.

• Practical experience delivering regulatory reporting solutions for post-trade transaction reporting.

• Practical experience delivering regulatory reporting solutions for post-trade transaction reporting.

• Stakeholder Negotiation: Proven ability to influence and align senior stakeholders with divergent agendas.

• Analytical & Problem-Solving Skills: Adept at dissecting complex workflow bottlenecks and formulating scalable, automated solutions.