Regulatory Reporting Product Owner

Job title:

Regulatory Reporting Product Owner

Company

London Stock Exchange Group

Job description

ABOUT US:LSEG (London Stock Exchange Group) is more than a diversified global financial markets infrastructure and data business. We are dedicated, open-access partners with a dedication to excellence in delivering the services our customers expect from us. With extensive experience, deep knowledge and worldwide presence across financial markets, we enable businesses and economies around the world to fund innovation, manage risk and create jobs. It’s how we’ve contributed to supporting the financial stability and growth of communities and economies globally for more than 300 years. Through a comprehensive suite of trusted financial market infrastructure services – and our open-access model – we provide the flexibility, stability and trust that enable our customers to pursue their ambitions with confidence and clarity.LSEG is headquartered in the United Kingdom, with significant operations in 70 countries across EMEA, North America, Latin America and Asia Pacific. We employ 25,000 people globally, more than half located in Asia Pacific. LSEG’s ticker symbol is LSEG.LSEG is a leading global financial markets infrastructure and data provider. Our purpose is driving financial stability, empowering economies and enabling customers to create sustainable growth.Our purpose is the foundation on which our culture is built. Our values of Integrity, Partnership, Excellence and Change underpin our purpose and set the standard for everything we do, every day. They go to the heart of who we are and guide our decision making and everyday actions.THE ROLE:Regulatory Reporting is the London Stock Exchange’s regulatory reporting provider. Regulatory Reporting customers include investment banks, hedge funds, brokers and other financial services firms. Regulatory Reporting provides business solutions in the areas of:

• Regulatory reporting with MiFIR, EMIR, G20 and other regimes
• Provision of reference data (especially financial instruments data)
• Analytics and surveillance of the data above

This product owner role will be required to lead a core Regulatory Reporting team, which is made up of a scrum master, Developers, QA specialists and is supported by other Regulatory Reporting functions such as the Product Management, Sales, Compliance and Risk teams.The culture of the Regulatory Reporting team is dynamic, and requires each individual to adapt rapidly to change, contribute fully and think on their feet. In addition to the dev and QA teams, this role involves ongoing interaction with all other areas (professional services, application management, platform team, alternate scrum teams), as well as with partners (especially regulators) and customers.Key responsibilities of the role:

• Contributing to the product strategy and roadmap creation and making sure product enhancements are aligned with Regulatory Reporting’s overall product strategy and roadmap
• Client centric thinking, ensure value is delivered to the client
• Working with Product Management to effectively manage a product backlog that guides the incremental delivery of business value
• Prioritising the most valuable items as per Scrum methodology and balancing competing demands while ensuring clients and regulators are considered in trade-off discussions, and the prioritisation process is transparent
• Leading the scrum. Providing a clear vision internally of what the scrum is working on and why.
• Breaking down each epic into features or stories with the appropriate level of details to achieve definition of ready i.e. development can start at the beginning of the next sprint.
• Strong regulatory knowledge in order to support the core products (EMIR,MIFIR, G20)
• Technical knowledge in order to bridge the gap between business and technology
• Analysing technical, business and regulatory requirements, assessing commercial opportunities and translating them into detailed product requirements
• Defining the goal of each sprint and the minimum requirements needed to achieve them and being able to effectively prioritise
• Identifying problems, risks, dependencies and able to deal with them as per Agile principles. Accepting or rejecting work completed by the dev team and accountable for making the decision to release a final piece of work
• Responsible for and accountable for demonstrating the value of the work delivered. Accountable and responsible for the production of the project outputs and subsequent presentations to stakeholders
• Conducting ongoing detailed problem analysis, incident management and definition of systemic solutions
• Establishing best practice, Agile driven processes for defining and documenting requirements, processes and delivery of Regulatory Reporting solutions
• Responsible and accountable for engaging internal stakeholders throughout each sprint and ensuring key stakeholders attend and actively contribute to key events such as sprint review meetings. Accountable for early escalations if there are issues with stakeholder engagement
• Regularly updating key stakeholders on project progress and impacts and providing detailed progress updates, in conjunction with the Product Management for relevant external stakeholders such as regulators and clients
• Contribute as a leader to collaboration and feedback activities e.g. retrospectives, knowledge sharing
• Working with Product Management and setting up and tracking KPI/Measures and client/user feedback

Essential skills and experience:

• Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to effectively manage stakeholder relationships
• Experience in user story writing and story mapping
• Experience in backlog prioritisation and understand constraints that may affect the prioritisation process
• Experience in release planning and product roadmap creation
• Able to analyse business needs and activities and translate them into UnaVista solution requirements
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills. Able to identify root causes of problems and to evaluate information with sound judgement, attention to detail and accuracy
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Must be self-motivated and have a desire to engage in process improvement
• Solid regulatory reporting expertise i.e. MiFIR, EMIR, G20

Desirable skills and experience

• Knowledge of cash equity, derivative and fixed income markets
• SQL
• Knowledge of software development lifecycle
• Knowledge of general computer science concepts / willingness to learn these on the job
• Work management tools such as Jira and Confluence
• Knowledge of cloud technology and BI tools
• Scrum Alliance Product Owner certification

BEHAVIOURAL SKILLS

• Excellent stakeholder management, seeking input from multiple sources
• Able to clearly articulate the business value of key stories in each sprint to the scrum team and stakeholders
• Assertive with great conflict management skills, able to prioritise against the greatest need rather than the loudest stakeholder
• Strong capability to work across the organisation to develop innovative and viable solutions
• Proactive response to change and able to see things in a new way
• Demonstrates the knowledge and expertise within their field to have credibility with their peers
• Builds and maintains contacts at all levels
• Manages expectations, maintains regular client contact to keep them informed
• Willingness to learn new concepts and technology as required
• Awareness of risks and risk mitigation within regulated settings

LSEG is a leading global financial markets infrastructure and data provider. Our purpose is driving financial stability, empowering economies and enabling customers to create sustainable growth.Our purpose is the foundation on which our culture is built. Our values of Integrity, Partnership, Excellence and Change underpin our purpose and set the standard for everything we do, every day. They go to the heart of who we are and guide our decision making and everyday actions.Working with us means that you will be part of a dynamic organisation of 25,000 people across 65 countries. However, we will value your individuality and enable you to bring your true self to work so you can help enrich our diverse workforce. You will be part of a collaborative and creative culture where we encourage new ideas and are committed to sustainability across our global business. You will experience the critical role we have in helping to re-engineer the financial ecosystem to support and drive sustainable economic growth. Together, we are aiming to achieve this growth by accelerating the just transition to net zero, enabling growth of the green economy and creating inclusive economic opportunity.LSEG offers a range of tailored benefits and support, including healthcare, retirement planning, paid volunteering days and wellbeing initiatives.We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer. This means that we do not discriminate on the basis of anyone’s race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. Conforming with applicable law, we can reasonably accommodate applicants’ and employees’ religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs.Please take a moment to read this carefully, as it describes what personal information London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) (we) may hold about you, what it’s used for, and how it’s obtained, .If you are submitting as a Recruitment Agency Partner, it is essential and your responsibility to ensure that candidates applying to LSEG are aware of this privacy notice.

Expected salary

Location

London

Job date

Wed, 07 Aug 2024 22:57:13 GMT

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