06 Aug
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Accolite
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Gurugram
We are looking for an experienced Product Owner with a strong functional background in Regulatory Trade Reporting and Financial Markets. The role will own the product backlog and delivery roadmap for regulatory reporting initiatives, working closely with business, compliance, operations, technology and quality-engineering teams.
The ideal candidate should have hands-on knowledge of trade reporting regulations, front-to-back trade lifecycles and regulatory data requirements, with the ability to translate complex obligations into clear product features and acceptance criteria. Key Responsibilities
- Own the product vision, roadmap and prioritized backlog for Regulatory Trade Reporting.
- Translate regulatory obligations and business requirements into epics, features, user stories and measurable acceptance criteria.
- Act as the primary functional decision-maker for delivery teams.
- Work with Compliance, Legal, Operations and Technology stakeholders to interpret regulatory changes and assess their impact.
- Lead requirements analysis across trade capture, enrichment, eligibility determination, report generation, submission, acknowledgements and exception management.
- Ensure accurate mapping of trade and reference data to regulatory reporting fields.
- Define business rules covering reportability, jurisdiction, counterparty classification, lifecycle events and submission timelines.
- Support reporting obligations across relevant jurisdictions, such as ASIC, MAS, CFTC, SEC, EMIR and other global regimes.
- Drive backlog refinement, sprint planning, showcases, release planning and business acceptance.
- Manage dependencies across source platforms, reporting engines, data platforms, trade repositories and downstream controls.
- Partner with engineering and QA teams to define functional test scenarios and expected outcomes.
- Support reconciliation, data-quality monitoring, exception management and remediation of reporting breaks.
- Analyse production incidents and regulatory breaches, prioritize corrective actions and drive root-cause resolution.
- Maintain traceability between regulatory requirements, business rules, implementation stories and test evidence.
- Provide clear status reporting on delivery progress, risks, dependencies and regulatory deadlines.
Required Skills and Experience
- 10+ years of experience in Financial Markets, Capital Markets or Investment Banking technology.
- At least 5 years of direct experience in Regulatory Trade Reporting.
- Strong functional understanding of OTC derivatives, exchange-traded derivatives, securities, fixed income, FX and related lifecycle events.
- Valuable knowledge of one or more reporting regimes, preferably ASIC, MAS, CFTC, SEC, EMIR or MiFIR.
- Strong understanding of trade-reporting concepts such as UTI, UPI, LEI, product classification, counterparty classification, valuations, collateral and lifecycle reporting.
- Experience with trade repositories and reporting platforms.
- Proven experience as a Product Owner, Senior Business Analyst or Functional Lead in an Agile delivery environment.
- Strong capability in requirements elicitation, data analysis,
field mapping and functional specification.
- Ability to interpret regulatory rules and convert them into implementable business requirements.
- Experience managing product backlogs and defining high-quality user stories and acceptance criteria.
- Strong stakeholder-management skills across business, compliance, operations and technology teams.
- Working knowledge of SQL and experience analysing trade and reporting data.
- Excellent communication, facilitation and decision-making skills.
Preferred Experience
- Experience delivering regulatory change or remediation programmes for a global bank.
- Exposure to platforms such as Murex, Calypso, ION, DTCC, UnaVista, REGIS-TR or equivalent reporting solutions.
- Familiarity with ISO 20022, common data models and regulatory reporting message formats.
- Experience with data lineage, control frameworks, reconciliations and regulatory assurance.
- Exposure to cloud-based data platforms and modern data-engineering environments.
- Product Owner, Scrum, Business Analysis or Financial Markets certification would be advantageous. Qualifications
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Finance, Business, Economics, Engineering, Computer Science or a related discipline.
- Relevant certifications such as CSPO, PSPO, CBAP, CFA, FRM or equivalent are desirable.
Success
Measures
- Timely delivery of regulatory changes and reporting obligations.
- Improved accuracy, completeness and timeliness of trade submissions.
- Reduction in reporting exceptions, breaks and manual intervention.
- Strong traceability from regulation through implementation and testing.
- Effective prioritization and alignment across business and technology stakeholders.
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