Product Manager Murex

This is what we offer you

• Thirteenth month's salary and 8% holiday allowance
• 10% Employee Benefit Budget
• EUR 1,400 development budget per year
• Hybrid working: balance between home and office work (possible for most roles)
• A pension, for which you can set the maximum amount of your personal contribution

Do you want to play a key role in enhancing the bank’s trading capabilities in a dynamic, ever-evolving environment where business meets technology? In this role you will have the opportunity to work with front office teams and technology experts to optimize the Murex platform for trading and processing of FX, Bonds & Rates products.

You and your job

As a Product Manager you will be a member of the Value Chain Area FX, Bonds & Rates and be part of a team of product owners and product managers who are all working together with their business stakeholders and technology experts to enhance the end-to-end technology stack that supports the value chain. The product manager Murex supports and represents the global users within Front Office on the Murex platform. The role is expected to consider aspects such as business value, regulatory compliance, value chain impact and costs efficiency in the product development. The issues, changes and requests you manage are diverse in nature and follow each other in rapid succession. You are able to keep the total overview, and towards your stakeholders and technology, you clearly present and substantiate your proposals on how to deal with these and guide/support them in realising the related benefits.

Facts & Figures

• Within the tribe we currently have 6 areas of which your value chain area is one of them.
• The tribe consists of over 50 squads. Accordingly, you need to interact with a subset of these squads
• In addition to Murex - 61 applications are supported by the area FX, Bonds & Rates

Top 3 responsibilities

• You support and represent business stakeholders and with your Murex expertise provide solutions and set priorities. You are their primary contact for FX, Bonds & Rates on Murex.
• You analyse and support the development of tactical and structural improvements to meet business, regulatory and other requirements with a primary focus on Murex Front Office while considering the end-to-end value chain
• You collaborate with Murex experts to drive user satisfaction and Murex performance

Together with your colleagues in the value chain area and area Murex Production Services you support and continuously improve the Murex platform and its services using an agile way of working. In a constantly changing environment, you play a central role by providing hands-on support to Front Office and Murex Production Services, refining requirements and PBI’s, translating them into concrete Murex enhancements, and ultimately implementing them effectively. Additionally, you analyse trends in incidents and requests, identifying structural improvements to enhance system stability, performance, and user experience.

Next to your Murex activities, colleagues in other areas are working on the next phases of the Front-to-Back-to-Risk program. This program aims to replace several existing systems with Murex while you continue to enhance Murex functionality and performance for FX, Bonds & Rates.

Main challenges in your role are to deal with many interests and stakeholders across Rabobank’s branches, meeting regulatory requirements, and optimizing costs efficiency whilst keeping solutions robust and simple. With your specialized Murex and financial markets expertise, you help drive enhancements of the Murex platform so it remains a future-proof platform for the business. You align with Front Office, Operations, Compliance, Architecture and Technology stakeholders in your daily work. Through your communication and stakeholder management, these stakeholders gain understanding of each other’s perspectives and support each other in achieving results.

Together we achieve more than alone
We believe in the power of difference. Bringing together people's differences is what makes us an even better bank. So we are very curious about what you can bring to our Value Chain area.

'The work environment is very positive and dynamic with colleagues from diverse nationalities. Everyone is keen to help and there is a good vibe, at the same time challenging with cross team dependencies, the complexity of the platform and a lot of stakeholders. Everyone works towards a common cause'

Vaibhav Vakharia, Product Manager Murex XVA

Your colleagues within the Value Chain Area develop and support applications for end-to-end value chain activities related to the trading, administration and processing of FX, Bonds and Rates for Rabobank’s branches globally. Working together is the way we work; as 1 results-oriented team at Rabobank. Talking of Rabobank: We are a Dutch bank that operates in 38 countries for over 9,500,000 customers. Together with these customers, our members and partners we stand side by side to create a world in which everyone has access to enough healthy food. In the Netherlands we work to create a country in which people are happy with how they live, work and do business.

You and your talent

• Understand the Front Office business lines and the underlying front-to-back-to-risk processes
• Have extensive knowledge of the financial markets products (a.o. FX, Bonds & Rates)
• Have knowledge of the Murex platform and its Front Office modules
• Have experience with working in an Agile/Scrum IT environment
• Are able to maintain and keep track of PBI’s and the refinement hereof
• Have very good communication and analytical skills
• Are able to manage different interests of your senior and expert stakeholders
• Are able to switch between all stakeholders and facets, from business, end-users, management, compliance, IT and team to product, market, organization and own ideas
• Are result-oriented, you have an intrinsic motivation to improve and realise results, you plan deliverables ahead know how to make progress transparent
• Are fluent in written and spoken English