Front Office Product Owner

-Job description

**Some careers have more impact than others.**

If you’re looking for a career where you can make a real impression, join HSBC and discover how valued you’ll be.

HSBC is one of the largest banking and financial services organisations in the world, with operations in 62 countries and territories. We aim to be where the growth is, enabling businesses to thrive and economies to prosper, and, ultimately, helping people to fulfil their hopes and realise their ambitions.

We are currently seeking an experienced professional to join our team in the role of **Front Office Product Owner - Hedging**

**Principal responsibilities***

**Programme Scope**

The project scope covers several areas:

- Enhancing BAU controls on hedge designations
- Implementation and roll out of workflow tooling for hedge capacity forecasting
- Coordination stakeholders across regions to progress set up of new macro cashflow hedging pools
- The programme seeks a new colleague with recent SAFE Agile experience to assist with the value stream delivery process used for day to day execution. Working alongside other programme PO’s and BA’s you will deliver the platform strategy and ensure that the overall program outcomes are achieved.

**Role Context**
- Observation of Internal Controls (Compliance Policy / FIM requirements)

**Role Dimensions**
- Asset class - Front Office / business management facing and Product Control
- MKTY and MSS
- Trading business aligned with interaction across - GBLs/IT/Operations/Finance/Control Office
Requirements
- Proven Agile Product Owner skills. Able to flex influencing and communications styles depending on audience without losing focus or outcome. Should be able to operate within a matrix organisation
- Proven record of delivering complex platform build out with emphasis on Front Office Trading Platforms
- Strong analytical and documentation skills, be detail oriented, and have a proven track record of understanding changes to operating models caused by regulatory change especially as this relates to platforms, people, processes and policy/procedures and working through to their implementation.
- Skilled in JIRA and Confluence with supporting skills in MS Powerpoint to create quality visual content for stakeholder communication
- Degree - Preferred
- Accounting Qualification (ACCA/CIMA) / CFA - Desired
- SAFE Agile - Desired
- Demonstrable understanding and experience of programme/project management using Agile
- Front Office BA/PO experience across FICC/Rates. Key knowledge of bonds, Swaps, IRRBB
- Understanding of treasury set-up within an investment bank and the ability to link this to trading activity and risk management
- Excellent communication skills and an ability to interact effectively with colleagues of varying degrees of knowledge and with different skills set (day to day reporting to COOs) - experience of business management and working closely with and/or on desks is advantageous
- Ability to define high quality requirements along with clearly defined quantitative business benefits that are supported by business owners
- Knowledge and experience of fixed income and derivative products including related benchmarks
- Understanding of hedge accounting and associated Treasury and Product Control activity including banking book
- Front to back change experience across multiple systems and vendors
- Strong internal stakeholder engagement skills and the ability to work with senior level stakeholders across different disciplines (Desk Heads, Business Management/COO, Risk, Product Control, Compliance, etc).
- 'Self starter' able to take the initiative, be able to work with limited supervision and can facilitate meetings/ workshops/working groups as required.
- Worked on large change projects that have had multi country disciplines.
- Ability to work within in a large geographically diver matrix organisation

**You’ll achieve more at HSBC**

**Issued By HSBC Electronic Data Processing (India) Private LTD