Fixed Income Product Manager

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with business stakeholders to identify new feature opportunities that enhance revenue potential, market reach, and compliance.
• Translate business requirements into clear, actionable system requirements.
• Liaise between broking desks, developers, and QA teams to ensure successful implementation and rollout of solutions.
• Support QA during testing and coordinate User Acceptance Testing (UAT) with end users to ensure timely sign-offs.

Qualifications

• Deep understanding of Fixed Income products including Treasuries, Gilts, EGBs, TIPS/Linkers, and Corporate Bonds.
• Strong grasp of derivative instruments such as Credit Default Swaps (CDS) and Interest Rate Swaps (IRS), OIS, FRAs, Caps/Floors, and Swaptions.
• Excellent understanding of price, yield-to-maturity, and DV01 concepts and their underlying calculations.
• Familiarity with structured trades and packages (switches, flies, basis, gadgets, spread switches) and how they are priced and settled.
• Knowledge of trading protocols such as Central Limit Order Books (CLOB) and auction mechanisms.
• (Optional) Understanding of implied trading and legging strategies.

Technical Skills

• Advanced Excel proficiency.
• Working knowledge of SQL for querying databases (Oracle, Sybase, NoSQL).
• Ability to conduct data analysis in Python using frameworks such as Pandas and Matplotlib (in Jupyter Notebook or Google Colab).
• Ability to capture requirements in Confluence and Jira.
• Familiarity with test automation and ability to guide the QA team on test scenarios.