eFinancialCareers

• Company

  E*TRADE

• Location

  UK-London

• Compensation

  Competitive £40-£60k

• Position Type

  Employee

• Employment type

  Part time

• Updated

  02 Dec 2008

• eFC Ref no

  297284

The individual will work within the Product Management team to provide a cost effective, online trading solution that consistently delivers an excellent customer experience backed up by efficient business processes.

Key Responsibilities:

Product Development:

• Working closely with Senior Management to identify areas of potential development
• Competitor product analysis to ensure E*Trade products are market leading
• Liaison with the Business teams to create appropriate Business Cases and requirements documents
• Managing the change control process during delivery of these requirements
• Work with Business teams to create business procedures and marketing campaigns that support the new initiatives
• Maintaining excellent relationships with all of the business teams : Marketing, Sales, Customer Service, complaince and Operations.
• Monitor Cost and revenue product models to ensure profitable solutions for E*Trade
• Analysis and ongoing improvement of the existing E*TRADE service

Product Delivery:

• Work with the development team for product delivery that meets requirements
• Negotiation of appropriate cost of development, ensuring the cost is in line with the development required and the needs of the business
• Management of product delivery timelines into the business
• Perform QA activities and liaise with the business teams to coordinate testing and release of new products

Quality Assurance:

• Working with all departments in the business to establish good QA procedures, and the documentation of this
• Working with IT team to coordinate scheduled system updates
• Maintain high availability of the online service
• Escalation of issues to the product manager as appropriate
• Monitor vendor announcement for ongoing business impact

Key Skills :

Business skills:

• Clear, proven understanding of and a passion for Market trading. Understanding instruments such as Equities, CFDs, Futures and spreadbetting; and how these are executed via world exchanges.
• Good understanding of the front-office and back-office business processes within the trading environment
• Can understand and effectively document and present unambiguous business functionality.
• Vendor liaison and contract negotiation

Projects skills:

• Strong project skills
• Can demonstrate, a clear understanding of a project methodology
• Can demonstrate a good track record in project delivery

Technical skills:

• Good understanding of web technologies
• Good understanding of financial back-office systems and how they operate
• Understanding of development life cycle

Personal skills:

• Excellent, efficient communicator
• Tenacious and thorough with proven attention to detail. Desire to see a project through to it's best possible conclusion, whatever it takes
• Good interpersonal skills. This is a role that requires a high level of co-ordination.