The Securities Services Position and Settlements Product Development team is responsible for articulating and implementing the target landscape for Securities Services’ trade and settlement activities. We set strategic direction, identify and govern investment proposals and manage end-to-end technology delivery across all aspects of the trade life cycle. This extends from instruction capture through transaction processing and settlement, and continues into data representation and onward reporting, to internal and external consumers and stakeholders.

Securities Services has identified our trade and settlement as a strategic investment area; we want to extend our services for clients and modernize and simplify our technology while retiring legacy technology . As such, we have an increased investment budget and strategic focus from our senior leadership and are expanding the Product Development team to make sure we have the right mix of resource and skillset.

Position Summary:

As an Executive Director in the role of Position and Settlement Product Development Manager, you will set the strategic direction, identify and govern investment proposals, and manage end-to-end technology delivery across all aspects of the trade lifecycle. You will have the opportunity to contribute to one of the most critical strategic pillars of the Securities Services business strategy. This includes supporting the definition and delivery of the target state operating model for our US trade activity through system transformation and modernization of our technology stack and product capabilities.

Job Responsibilities:

• Take responsibility for delivery for components of the investment portfolio in line with the 2024 and subsequent roadmaps, demonstrating best practice in program and project management and execution
• Establish, define and document the business context and process flows for upstream providers and downstream consumers of the US trade and settlement processing systems
• Understand the different transactions types for US trades and be able to link this to business activities, system flows and future state target operating models
• Understand the trade life cycle activities from a product and processing perspective; create roadmaps from current state to target state implementations, using business activities, system flows, data and metrics to make key decisions
• Prioritize and schedule work, manage dependencies across streams, and co-ordinate across POTL deliveries
• Identify and implement process improvements
• Collaborate with key stakeholder groups including Client Service , Operations and Custody product

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills:

• Strong track record of business delivery within in the US Custody space
• Broad business understanding, with ability to capture end-to-end business flow and progressively deepen subject matter expertise, identifying impact and dependencies up and down stream
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Self-motivated, quick learner, being the focal point of a virtual project team, comfortable with responsibility
• Proven good judgment, particularly on prioritizing your own and others’ workloads – including managing multiple deliveries simultaneously
• Strong analytical / quantitative skills, using programs such as Microsoft Excel, Tableau
• Being able to build relationships across teams

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills:

• Ability to multi-task, effectively prioritize workloads, and manage multiple streams of work concurrently
• Experience with system, process or data design, Target Operating Models