Job description

Our purpose – Opening up a world of opportunity – explains why we exist. Here at HSBC we use our unique expertise, capabilities, breadth and perspectives to open up new kinds of opportunity for our more than 40 million customers. We’re bringing together the people, ideas and capital that nurture progress and growth, helping to create a better world – for our customers, our people, our investors, our communities and the planet we all share.

Product Owners collect and prioritise requirements from multiple stakeholders incl. clients, the global Cash Equities business and front-to-back support functions. They ensure the platform evolution enables and supports the Cash Equities business and client strategy in terms of functionality, capability and front-to-back capacity, working closely with technology to successfully deliver.

As our Cash Equities Product Owner you will:

• Working with key stakeholders across sales, business, and COO, ensuring the Cash Equities product vision, strategy and delivery roadmap is well-defined and widely understood, defining key business requirements, defining success in measurable terms and ensuring successful end-to-end delivery, serving both external (e.g. clients and regulators) and internal (e.g. sales desks, trading desks and front-to-back) stakeholders
• The Cash Equities product vision, strategy and delivery is well-co-ordinated and aligned with the commercial business objectives and outcomes
• Both external and internal front-to-back requirements are well-understood and appropriately prioritised within the Cash Equities delivery on an on-going basis
• Managing competing priorities on an on-going basis – ensuring resources are re-directed dynamically to maximise output
• Proactively identify and implement process re-engineering and platform improvement initiatives in a globally consistent way
• Helping ensure the Cash Equities Product Owner team is effective and well-co-ordinated, with individual Product Owners understanding how their delivery benefits the Cash Equities Business as a whole
• Assisting with establishing annual funding for Cash Equities through providing information, analysis and lobbying senior stakeholders and members of central transformation function
• Strong delivery governance is in place, with progress / risks / issues effectively and transparently communicated
• Operational risk and cost is minimised front-to-back through an on-going focus on remediating existing issues plus increasing STP and automation.

Requirements

You´ll likely have the following qualifications to succeed in this role:

• Deep Cash Equities product expertise is essential
• Successful history of working closely with technology and other key front-to-back stakeholders, driving change in a collaborative manner based on agile principles
• Ability to build and sustain a wide network of global stakeholders in a large matrix organisation
• Ability to meet firm wide risk and control standards and gain legal, risk and compliance approval in regards to product enhancements and supporting business requirements
• Proven track record of effectively resolving issues and conflicts to ensure timely delivery
• Ability to drive an agenda and consensus across multi-functional and cross-regional teams
• Ability to build and sustain a wide network of stakeholders in a large matrix organisation
• Ability to think strategically in designing end-to-end solutions, re-engineering business and operational processes as required
• Demonstrates problem solving abilities
• Commercial outlook