Banking Product and Distribution

**About Banking**
The Banking team supports PB globally, providing competitive products and solutions to our clients and supporting their distribution across our international locations.

Our Product and Proposition, Distribution and Portfolio Insights teams relentlessly strive to provide strong and innovative client solutions that position Barclays as a leader in our key markets

**Overall purpose of role**

Product management is integral to the success of the business. Product Managers are responsible for the product management agenda with the primary aim of developing and managing the Banking Product Portfolio ie savings, notice accounts, term deposits, SBL, mortgages, overdraft.

They will support the development and delivery of differentiated products and product suites within an overall product life cycle, clients’ needs framework and aligned to target client segmentation. They will ensure that products are developed and delivered aware of the statutory and regulatory obligations the business is exposed in the sale of products. In addition, product managers are key to ensuring they are acutely aware of competition to ensure products are differentiated and have USP.

In addition, Product managers will support the development and maintenance of a framework to measure and monitor product portfolio performance, profitability, as well as the housekeeping of products end-to-end.

Product Managers will be responsible for articulating the end-to-end product needs, risk and control requirements, and operational requirements to deliver their product in a controlled, regulatory and conduct compliant. They will partner with Business Delivery and Control (BD&C), Business Management (BM), and Chief Control Officer (CCO) to achieve this.

The purpose of this role will be **_an hybrid role_** to support the local Barclays Bank Switzerland SA Product proposition including the booking of the fiduciary trade with our counterparties but also to lead the local Cash & Liquidity coverage with the banking distribution & optimization activity across Europe.

As a member of the broader PB Banking business, Product Managers & Cash and Liquidity specialist have clear responsibility to bring and leverage their expertise in order to help the business to think and act in the wider context and interests of PB and Barclays International. For example, delivery of overall strategy, marketplace outcomes, innovation and cultural development..

**Key Accountabilities**
- **Lead Geneva Banking Product Launch**
- Actively contribute to the project scope and solutions design (booking, controls ) including AVALOQ system solutions
- Act as a product SME for problem solving
- Assist with the coordination of local stakeholders (Legal, Compliance, CAM, Front Office, Distributions, COO, Finance, Risk, Operations ) to ensure smooth landing of the solutions
- Actively contribute to UATs by providing test scripts and working closely with local users
- Provide client collateral for distribution teams and ensure Intranet and Front office portal up to date (both standard and bespoke documents)
- Document all procedures related to the product booking and its controls (inc. SOX)
- Ensure project is properly handed over to BAU teams (i.e. Distribution, Front Office ) and provide support during transition period
- **Manage Product lifecycle & Maintenance of Geneva Banking Products**
- Accountable for standard rates update within the systems and prepare formal communication for Front Office
- Publish daily standard rates to Front Office (inc. Fiduciary rates)
- Feed to the Product Annual Review
- Raise, own and follow up resolution of IT incident linked to any Banking product
- Participate to prioritization meeting for defect resolution (ensure budget has been secured to that effect)
- Review procedures and update process documentation if required
- Monitor product is correctly booked in our systems to avoid anomalies
- Report anomalies if any and seek resolution with help of Distribution teams
- Support local teams with Regulatory reporting requirement (i.e. FINMA)
- **Provide Cash & Liquidity coverage for Geneva platform**
- Advise bankers across EME on available products and advise clients directly upon request - provide regular update (i.e. week ahead calls)
- Advise bankers across EME on latest bank appetite statement as well as counterparty credit ratings
- Perform book review and identify optimization opportunities which translate into incremental P&L
- Provide bankers with client bespoke letter template and perform 4 eyes check before sending to clients
- Prepare Deal Forum cases and track the sanction expiries - update central team on progress
- Approve booking before trading in AVALOQ Geneva of bespoke deposit
- Help bankers/PBE with the booking process of Banking product AVALOQ (reinforce written procedure if required)
- **Ensure back up of fiduciary balance booking within agreed SLAs**
- On a back up basis, place the trade from Geneva platform