Brian Pinto

· Key Skills & Expertise

• Product Leadership: Oversee development and enhancement of ARM services, ensuring alignment with evolving regulatory and industry requirements. Key result, over 98% transaction reported are accepted by Regulators.
• Customer Advocacy: Act as voice of customer, translating needs into clear functional and non‑functional business requirements.
• Strategic Vision: Define and direct product vision and strategy, building and refining roadmaps to drive long‑term growth, increasing product revenue by over 9% annually.
• Agile Delivery: Direct Scrum teams and Product Owners to execute on strategic priorities within SAFe Agile frameworks.
• Financial Management: Manage P&L for product line, actively overseeing budgets to maximise profitability and efficiency.
• Service Excellence: Establish and monitor product SLAs and SLOs to ensure reliability and performance of services.
• Stakeholder Communication: Responsible for internal and external communications for product updates, launches, and incident management, including escalation handling with clients and regulators.
• Risk & Compliance: Manage product risk and control through self‑assessments, audits, and adherence to regulatory standards.
• Client Engagement: Regularly partner with Sales and Relationship Managers to engage with clients to exchange feedback and deliver solutions that improve operational efficiency.
• Cross‑Functional Collaboration: Work closely with Technology, Sales, Compliance and Client Operations to design solutions to address industry and bespoke client challenges.
• Industry Representation: Represent MarketAxess at industry events, conduct client webinars, attend roundtables with regulators on Transaction Reporting Services.

• Requirements Translation: Converted customer and business needs into clear user stories, elicited non‑functional requirements, and produced solution artefacts to guide delivery.
• Backlog Management: Prioritised and organised team backlog to best support execution of product strategy.
• Agile Collaboration: Partnered with Product Manager and fellow Product Owners to deliver coherent, high‑quality products at pace.
• Stakeholder Alignment: Balanced competing stakeholder demands, driving consensus and ensuring alignment across diverse business groups.
• Documentation Ownership: Authored and maintained client‑facing specifications and internal documents to improve transparency and knowledge sharing.
• Progress Showcasing: Presented product progress through demos and walkthroughs to large stakeholder groups, strengthening engagement and confidence in delivery.
• Product Accountability: Took ownership of product success, ensuring contributions aligned with wider strategic objectives and measurable business outcomes, with direct impact on revenues on the Match product's CAGR growing by over 15% annually.
• Community Contribution: Actively participated in Product community, mentoring peers and advancing organisational capability in product management practices.

• Team Oversight: Managed a change team of Business Analysts, ensuring delivery quality and alignment with strategic objectives which resulted in successful delivery of ring-fencing the Investment bank's securities business in 2018 and creating a Brexit-ready entity to support NatWest Markets' European business in 2019.
• Executive Communication: Simplified complex information into clear, concise updates for Senior Programme Managers and Product Owners.
• Stakeholder Management: Provided engaging, holistic views of project progress, building trust and alignment across senior stakeholders.
• Workflow Design: Created transformational workflows and authored approach documents, RACI matrices, and RAID logs to drive pragmatic solutions for the Securities Cash and Securities Financing business.
• Data‑Driven Analysis: Delivered iterative, analytical playback to stakeholders at every stage of the project lifecycle.
• Regulatory Translation: Broke down complex regulatory and business requirements into developer‑friendly user stories.
• Agile Delivery: Groomed user stories iteratively with technology partners, in‑house and vendor developers, Finance, Risk, Front Office, and line teams.
• Backlog Management: Prioritized and challenged requirements to ensure backlog alignment with product strategy.
• Budget & Risk Control: Influenced and managed project budgets, risks, costs, and future‑state operating models.
• Governance Framework: Maintained a robust governance structure, minimizing adverse impacts to customers during implementation.
• Agile Collaboration: Partnered with Project Managers and Programme Leads to meet delivery timeframes and budgets using SAFe Agile methodologies.
• Cross‑Functional Engagement: Actively collaborated with technology partners, dependent teams, and stakeholders to ensure coherent, fit‑for‑purpose outcomes.
• Risk & Control: Applied a risk and control lens at every stage of project delivery to safeguard compliance and resilience.
• Operational Readiness: Defined critical go‑live tasks, built UAT test scripts, runbooks, BAU training plans, and testing strategies.
• Continuous Improvement: Conducted post‑implementation reviews, collated lessons learned, and worked with peers to drive ongoing improvements across the Post Trade community.
• Vendor Management: Oversaw vendor relationships to secure optimal outcomes for NatWest Markets while minimizing customer disruption.

• Managed Client and Sales Support team in Manchester and London for Securities Cash and Repo Trading desks trading involving liaising between traders, sales and clients to ensure smooth trade capture and fund allocations.

• Managed timely settlement of securities transactions across global markets. Involved collaborating with Middle and Front office desks to keep funding costs and costs of failed trades down.
• Worked collaboratively with Custodians (such as BNP Paribas, SEB, Clearstream and Euroclear), Centralised Counterparties (such as LCH, Eurex, ICE, Brokertec), Triparty agents and other brokers/venues (TPICAP, BGC) to facilitate timely and accurate settlement.
• Funding, Collateral and Position management.
• Nostro and Depot reconciliations, clearing of trade discrepancies.
• Experience of working on Bloomberg, Calypso, Murex, Anvil Arts, Smartstream.