Product Owner Risk Services Modelling
At a glance
Are you keen to bring our clients and market risk services, processes and applications to a structurally higher and future-proof level?
As Senior Product Owner Risk Services Modelling it is your task to understand the end-to-end client and market risk processes, risk models and risk reporting needs of our internal and external stakeholders and to translate these into actionable solutions.
Our client is currently modernizing all risk related services via a large-scale risk transformation change program. From data input, to processing, to reporting, they offer a once in a lifetime opportunity to shape, build and drive the future state risk services of our client.
As Product Owner for the Risk Services Modelling team at our client, you will act as the conductor of all risk services and play a vital role in shaping and executing the strategic vision for Risk management. You will take global end-to-end responsibility for Change, Run, and Control activities including compliance, operations, and budget of all risk service deliverables. Your responsibilities extend from conceptualization and design to overseeing all implementations and ongoing enhancements. You will be a linchpin in the risk management strategy.
Our client is a top global player in the Clearing domain. They aspire to lead the way to safe and transparent markets. They act as an intermediary between clients and the exchanges they trade on. They became the buyer to the seller and the seller to the buyer, taking over the risk to reconcile orders between the parties in the transaction. They do so for professional traders, investment managers and corporations. They understand them and strive to deliver reliable, high-quality service across the globe. Working at our client means thriving in an international, professional yet informal, fast-paced environment.
As their risk services are of strategic importance and growing, they want to expand our Product Owner capacity to bring value faster.
Your job
As Product owner for the Risk Services Modelling development team, you are the driving force behind strategic decision-making related to all (new) risk services for our clients. You build and execute strategy to develop software solutions. You lead efforts to design software systems that can scale with increasing volumes, with a strong emphasis on high-availability standards, efficiency, and resilience.
Your role includes leadership, innovation, and responsibility. It involves navigating complexities and collaborating with diverse stakeholders to position the organization for sustained success.
You work closely with the other Product Owners, Business Developers, and IT Engineers in the risk domain and with many other teams in the organization.
Working environment
The Risk transformation change program is of strategic importance and highly visible in the whole organization.
The Risk Applications development cluster consists of four teams with global end-to-end responsibility over the domain. Each team is a high performing, multidisciplinary team of IT Engineers and Business Developers, who work together in an agile way. Our client has Risk engineers and stakeholders in Europe, Asia-Pacific, and Chicago so our working days vary between 7am and 8pm, keeping 8 hours per day as the rule.
Thanks to their global network with offices in eleven countries and proximity to all major exchanges, you will serve the best trading firms on four continents. You work closely with stakeholders in Singapore, Sydney, Hong Kong, Amsterdam, and Chicago on a day-to-day basis.
The atmosphere is open and informal. They work hard, but there is enough room to play around and meet for drinks as well!
Your profile
- You are an experienced Product Owner with a strong background in building real-time derivatives risk platforms, specializing in end of day and intraday client exposure monitoring, correlation modelling to support trading, risk and regulatory requirements;
- You have experience in the Risk Management function, focused on Market Risk, Operational risk, Capital requirement models (such as SA-CCR/FCCM), the financial markets industry and the regulatory requirements;
- You have experience with taking global end-to-end responsibility for Change, Run and Control activities (regulation, operations & budget);
- You can promote an inspiring vision for development teams and stakeholders, build strategy, and execute a roadmap with clear priorities and OKRs to achieve business goals;
- You are an excellent, pro-active advisor with strong communication abilities;
- You manage cross-team/cluster dependencies, to ensure alignment and synergy across multiple products & services;
- You have proven leadership experience in guiding and leading teams;
- You guide and support Business Developers to enhance their professional development (HR responsibility);
- You are a delivery-focused, ambitious, energetic person with a “getting things done” mindset, able to work outside of one’s comfort zone and encourage others towards such behaviour;
- You have a proactive and self-starting attitude, with the ability to think independently and argue open-mindedly and assertively;
- Understanding of programming languages (e.g., C++ / SQL / Python) capabilities, and data orchestration / ETL processes is desirable;
- Academic level of work and thinking and a minimum of 10 years relevant experience.
We are offering
You will be given plenty of scope to create and contribute value on a global level and with high impact. They are also keen to learn from your experience, so there is also an audience to share your knowledge. You will be given the opportunity to further deepen your expertise and/or broaden your role in an international, culturally diverse environment. There will be various growth opportunities in your area of expertise and beyond, depending on your goals, interests, and experience.
- A custom made annual salary based on a 36-hour work week, including holiday allowance and benefit budget (based on knowledge & experience);
- The Benefit Budget is 11% of your salary. The Benefit Budget allows you to acquire additional employment benefits. If you make no purchases or reservations in the Benefit Shop in a given month, you are paid one twelfth of your Benefit Budget that month;
- Five weeks of vacation per year. You have the option to purchase an additional four weeks per year;
- Personal development Budget of € 1,000 per year, which you can accumulate up to € 3,000;
- A hybrid way of working, at least one day a week in the Amsterdam office (in consultation with your team and depending on your position);
- An annual public transport pass with free public transportation throughout the Netherlands;
- An excellent pension scheme.
