Product Specialist - XVA and CCR (EMEA)
About the role
About Us
Since our founding in 1996, we have been at the vanguard of financial technology, providing groundbreaking expertise, quantitative analytics and software that redefine pricing and risk management in the financial markets. With the strategic acquisitions of FINCAD, PolyPaths and Kynex, Numerix has further strengthened its leadership position empowering financial institutions worldwide, to transform risk into opportunities with confidence.
Role Overview
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.