As one of the world's largest banking and financial services organisations, HSBC has been connecting customers to opportunities since 1865. With operations in 65 countries and territories, HSBC's unparalleled international network links developed and emerging markets, and spans the world's largest and fastest-growing trade corridors. The bank serves more than 40 million customers through its commercial, retail, investment and private banking businesses, which are supported by operational and functional teams around the world.

Increasing focus on strategic programmes and increased funding into Equities in 2021, plus a renewed focus on building out the strategic infrastructure and demising legacy Primary Trading Systems (PTS) i.e. Fidessa & Sophis is stretching full-time Product Owners. Additional support is required is order to ensure strategic programmes / PTS demise are successfully delivered.

Direction: assigned to a specific Product Owner and directed day-to-day by them
Target skillset: Project Management / Business Analysis / SME business area knowledge / experience of operating within an Agile delivery framework / pro-active approach
Role content:
• Assisting Product Owners with
o Ensuring information / prioritisation decisions are presented to Product Owners in an accurate, timely, data-driven way to support Product Owner decision-making
o Building out business outcomes / data analytics / metrics frameworks to support progress tracking and Product Owner prioritisation
o Gathering information / requirements from global front-to-back stakeholders
• Assisting Delivery Teams with
o Planning and budgeting exercises
o Project admin and governance including status reporting: ensuring updates / milestone tracking / risk & issue escalation is accurate and timely
o Ensuring a clear, well-managed book of work / backlog, covering both strategic initiatives and non-initiative based work e.g. RTB / PIRs / GASRA / ITSO / automation / MSIIs
o Agile delivery techniques e.g. story slicing / acceptance tests
o Co-ordinating cross-pod alignment and project management to ensure cross-cutting business delivery is achieved.

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