Dec Clearing Product Manager Apac

**Business Area/Dept Overview**

Derivatives Execution & Clearing (DEC) is an agency cross-asset integrated execution and clearing business giving access to 70+ world’s largest Exchanges to Corporate and Institutional clients.

DEC combines the strengths of Global Markets on ETD Execution, OTC Clearing and ETD Clearing for Corporates, and of Securities Services on ETD Clearing for Institutions:
Listed Execution: Electronic and Voice brokerage services on listed Equity & Fixed Income futures and options for Asset Managers, Asset Owners, Hedge Funds

OTC Clearing: Clearing of vanilla OTC derivatives (Rates, Credit), for large institutions (Asset Managers, Asset Owners, Banks, Hedge Funds)

ETD Clearing for Corporates: Futures & Options on energy, metals and soft commodities, mainly for hedging purposes of large Producers and Utilities

ETD Clearing for Financial Institutions: Clearing of Equity & Fixed Income

The role of the Clearing Product Management team for the DEC business is to drive the product strategy and sponsor the platform design, evolution and alignment with client needs.

Product management support the business in its go to market strategy though product training, contribution to rfp, branding of the business and bringing product expertise during client meeting and industry events. Product management perform Market & Regulatory watch to ensure the product offering stays in line with client, business & regulatory requirements. Product management owns the platform change process to adapt to client, business & regulatory changes.

**Job Purpose**:
The DEC Clearing Product Manager APAC role, leads the delivery of the products roadmap in APAC. The role holder will be responsible and accountable for defining the product & platform ambition in coordination with the central Product team, developing the product & platform strategy and ensuring its implementation: liaising with Business Sponsors, managing priorities, resources and the assignment of work in the team.

**Core accountabilities of role**

An expert exercising considerable creativity, foresight, and judgment in conceiving, planning, and delivering business services to clients and key stakeholders.

Manages the delivery of innovative and complex clearing products with a strong impact on Clients and GM Staff.

Develops, co-ordinates and leads on tasks such as:
**Manage and develop**

Develop depth and range of product knowledge to ensure personal credibility and ability to operate as an ‘expert’ within the business

Supervise, mentor and coach Junior colleagues to support their ongoing development within the Bank as appropriate

Manage time efficiently to accomplish key responsibilities

Timely escalation to the head of the team of any complex client or product issues and queries that require more seniority

**Drive the Product Strategy and sponsor the platform design, evolution and alignment with client needs**

Understand the Product and the impact on the product strategy

Consolidate data required to propose book of work priority for the specific area in their remit

Aggregate Stakeholders platform evolution request, evaluate business case and their contribution to the platform strategy,

Interact with delivery team to assess cost and feasibility and stakeholders to confirm rational

Maintain the book of work

Oversee the delivery of the project within the product roadmap within their remit including;
- Drive the review of these projects with the IT & Change & Design
- Validate the status provided
- Define related business needs and level of services

Take ownership of one or several steps of the Product Life cycle for new services

Maintain existing services by identifying the required evolution

Improve and Optimize cost efficiency of the new services they are working on

Contribute and own to major projects without close supervision

Ability to define accounting flows and entries for relevant products with close supervision

Document processes as needed without close supervision

Understand and ensure compliance to applicable regulatory obligations with close supervision

**Ensure market watch and Product representation to internal & external governance committees and bodies**

Contribute to market, competition and regulatory watch

Keep abreast of the evolving regulatory landscape and how this impacts both business and clients.

Perform analysis of evolutions of specific regulatory oversight impacting local product strategy and product offering

Support Sales & Client on these matters

Join Internal working groups to bring SME views

Contribute to regulator audits and queries

**Support the business in its go to market strategy and keep Client Focus approach**

Deliver Product training and support on Product Offer for the Sales, Relationship Management and Client Solutions teams

Develop Pitch Book and Product Offering marketing material in co-operation with Marketing and Client Development for the new services they sponsor

Provide prod