Product Owner (Portfolio Solutions) - Vice President

Job Description

Who we are looking for

This Vice President position will be a part of the Product Owner for Portfolio Solutions (post trade services) team and will be responsible for executing complex portfolio of initiatives across Equity & fixed income securities, money market funds, derivatives, outsourced trading products for State Street Global Markets (GM) Operations. The role will encompassing broad aspects of the business: new product, geographic and product expansion, operations infrastructure, design and implementation of operations models, reporting, and risk oversight.  Engage with GM partners, Global Technology, Compliance, Legal, Trading, Operations, and others, to execute the portfolio.  Lead a small team of program / project managers and business analysts.

Why this role is important to us

The team you will be joining is a part of State Street Global Markets (SSGM). When owners and managers of institutional assets need research, trading, securities lending and innovative portfolio strategies, they turn to SSGM business unit. As our investment research and trading arm, SSGM’s number one goal is to enhance and preserve our clients’ portfolio values by applying technology, optimizing trading, and linking asset classes and markets across the world.

Join us if making your mark in capital markets industry from day one is a challenge you are up for.

What you will be responsible for

As Product Owner for Portfolio Solutions - Vice Present, you will

• Responsible for managing the application lifecycle across internal, industry, market and regulatory changes
• Be the Product Owner for all Portfolio Solutions applications (Equity & fixed income securities, money market funds, derivatives, outsourced trading) and become the single point of contact for tech & business for change & transformation
• Collaborate with Markets & Financing Operations (MFO), Front Office (FO) and Technology, make strategic decisions that affect the overall product and/or scope of project
• Review, analyze, and evaluate business and partner requirements in order to recommend solutions and options.
• Coordinate budget process between relevant stakeholders
• Maintain and prioritize the product backlog
• Produce plans, roadmaps (milestones and timelines) and status updates and communicate to stakeholders
• Document business outcomes, requirements, process flows and re-engineering
• Partner with Technology in an agile approach, create use cases, backlog, epics and stories
• Coordinate testing and business adoption
• Successful product delivery to MFO and/or FO that meet business outcomes
• Resolve significant issues or roadblocks to projects, working with Senior management across the bank.
• Identify and frame risks and issues to project execution, as well as ensure their timely resolution or escalation.
• Manage internal relationships and communications with business partners.
• Effectively communicate and collaborate with diverse stakeholders with varied interests.

What we value

These skills will help you succeed in this role -

• Strong domain expertise in post trade support activities for Equity & fixed income securities, money market funds and derivatives
• Experience in Agile project delivery method
• Strategic thinking to build product vision & roadmap
• Demonstrated success executing initiatives within complex organizational settings.
• Demonstrated capability to interact, negotiate and influence senior management.
• Outstanding organizational, analytical, and consultative abilities.
• Highly refined business knowledge of fixed income, equity, operations arenas.
• Staff management and development.
• Experience in establishing clear accountability and ownership for project deliverables across other teams while taking accountability for own work and being a self-motivated, productive colleague
• Act with urgency to ensure essential plans remain on course and issues are effectively communicated
• Talent to drive creative thinking and collaboration to surface strategic solutions
• Ability to solve complex problems

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