Product Specialist - Xva And Ccr (Emea)

The Product Specialist - XVA and CCR will work within the product management team to support the development of a next-generation end‑user front‑to‑risk application for the financial markets industry, with a primary focus on Counterparty Credit Risk (CCR) and XVA (CVA, DVA, FVA, etc.) capabilities.

This role requires a hands-on Product Specialist with business analysis skills who will work closely with internal Risk teams and UX/Design stakeholders to translate complex risk methodologies into intuitive, user‑friendly workflows, screens, and interactions.

The successful candidate will own the definition and documentation of user‑centric requirements and functional specifications in JIRA, ensuring that CCR and XVA functionality is not only analytically correct, but also usable, explainable, and efficient for end users such as traders, risk managers, and control teams.

What You'll Do:

• Contribute to and maintain the product roadmap for an end‑user front‑to‑risk platform, with a strong focus on usability and user experience across CCR and XVA workflows.
• Act as a key liaison between Risk teams, Product Management, UX/Design, and Development, ensuring that risk methodologies are reflected in clear, intuitive user experiences.
• Lead the definition of user‑centric requirements for CCR and XVA features, producing high‑quality user stories, functional specifications, acceptance criteria, and workflow descriptions in JIRA, with a strong emphasis on end‑user needs.
• Own and manage the end‑to‑end requirements lifecycle in JIRA for CCR/XVA initiatives, including epic and story creation, backlog grooming, prioritization, dependency identification, and ongoing clarification with developers and designers.
• Ensure that clear and complete functional test cases are defined for Market Risk features, enabling developers, QA, and business users to validate expected system behavior and outcomes.
• Partner closely with Risk teams to capture requirements related to exposure, PFE, netting, collateral, margining, SA‑CCR/IMM, and XVA, and translate them into clear UI‑level behaviors, user flows, controls, and explanations.
• Collaborate with UX and design stakeholders to define screen layouts, navigation concepts, user interactions, and terminology, ensuring consistency and usability across CCR and XVA features.
• Lead the software development lifecycle by applying best practices in functional design, usability‑aware documentation, review, and validation of end‑user features.
• Elicit requirements using interviews, workshops, use cases, personas, business process descriptions, and workflow analysis, with specific attention to how end users consume, understand, and act on risk information.
• Critically evaluate information gathered from risk, business, and technical stakeholders; reconcile conflicts; and decompose complex CCR/XVA concepts into clear, consumable user experiences.
• Serve as the primary functional point of contact for development teams, providing ongoing clarification on CCR/XVA requirements and UX expectations, and ensuring delivered functionality meets both functional and usability acceptance criteria.
• Participate in reviews and UAT alongside Risk and business users to validate that CCR and XVA functionality is accurate, intuitive, explainable, and aligned with real user workflows.
• Support presales, client demonstrations, and onboarding activities by explaining CCR/XVA user workflows and UI behaviors in collaboration with Product and Risk teams.

What We're Looking For:

• Bachelor's degree in finance, mathematics, computer science, or a related field.
• 5+ years of experience in the Financial Services industry, including experience working directly with end‑user applications in front office, middle office, or risk functions.
• Strong domain expertise in Counterparty Credit Risk and XVA, including exposure calculation, PFE, netting and collateral, margining, and valuation adjustments (CVA, DVA, FVA, etc.).
• Demonstrated experience collaborating closely with Risk teams to capture, document, and validate risk requirements and methodologies.
• Proven experience writing user‑centric requirements and specifications for development teams, ideally using JIRA (epics, user stories, acceptance criteria, workflows, and backlog management).
• Strong appreciation for UX and usability in financial applications, with the ability to translate complex risk analytics into intuitive and efficient user workflows.
• Solid understanding of the Derivative Trade Lifecycle and how CCR and XVA concepts are consumed by end users across Front, Middle, and Risk functions.
• Familiarity with financial product structures, curve building, market and reference data as presented in user‑facing systems.
• Working knowledge of front office, middle office, or enterprise risk management systems with graphical user interfaces.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to communicate effectively with risk professionals, developers, designers, and business users.
• Self‑motivated, detail‑oriented, and focused on delivering high‑quality, user‑centric CCR and XVA capabilities.

Where You'll Work:

This is a hybrid or remote role, open to the EMEA region with a preference for those who live in the Milan, Italy area.

An important note on salary:

The annual pay range for this position is based on the preferred primary location of the role which is listed above. If you are applying to this role at a location that is not the preferred primary location, please keep in mind the salary range will vary and may fall outside of what is listed. Base pay offered may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.

Also note that unsolicited contact from third-party recruiters or agencies will not be considered at this time. We respectfully request no outreach from agencies.