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Ensuring Accurate Valuation: Product control ensures that the pricing of financial products, such as derivatives, bonds, equities, or structured products, is accurate, reliable, and compliant with accounting standards.
Mark-to-Market Valuation: Regularly performing mark-to-market or fair value assessments to ensure that the portfolio’s current value reflects market conditions.
Model Validation: Verifying that the models used for pricing complex financial instruments are appropriate and validated, and any assumptions used in these models are consistent with market conditions.

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Risk Identification: Identifying risks associated with trading and financial products, including market risk, credit risk, liquidity risk, and operational risk.
Hedge Verification: Ensuring that any hedging activities are executed and properly accounted for, to manage the exposure of trading desks or other departments.
Risk Reporting: Generating and reporting risk metrics (e.g., Value-at-Risk (VaR), stress testing) and ensuring that these metrics are communicated effectively to senior management.

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Daily P&L Reporting: Preparing daily profit and loss reports for trading desks and business units. This includes detailed breakdowns of the gains and losses from various positions.
Attribution Analysis: Analyzing the sources of profit and loss, including market moves, changes in volatility, and other factors, to determine which trades or strategies contributed to the results.
Variance Analysis: Investigating and explaining any discrepancies between the expected P&L and the actual P&L, highlighting any anomalies or operational issues.

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Control and Compliance

Internal Controls: Implementing strong internal controls to ensure the integrity and accuracy of financial reporting. This includes overseeing compliance with accounting standards, regulatory requirements, and internal policies.
Audit Support: Supporting internal and external auditors by providing necessary documentation and data for audit purposes, ensuring transparency and regulatory compliance.
Regulatory Reporting: Ensuring that all regulatory reporting requirements (e.g., financial disclosures, tax filings) are met, particularly in relation to financial products and their valuation.

Transaction Reconciliation: Ensuring that trading positions, trades, and transactions are accurately recorded and reconciled between different systems (e.g., trading systems, accounting systems).
Price Verification: Verifying that the prices used for product valuations are sourced from reliable, reputable data providers and align with market prices.
Position Reconciliation: Ensuring that positions in financial instruments are accurately reflected and reconciled between front office (trading), middle office (risk), and back office (operations).

Financial Statements Preparation: Assisting in the preparation of financial statements, including balance sheets and income statements, that reflect accurate values for the organization’s portfolio.
Disclosures: Providing detailed product-specific disclosures in financial reports, ensuring that stakeholders have a clear understanding of the risks, returns, and accounting treatment of the products held.

Business Partnering: Collaborating with traders, risk managers, and senior management to provide insights into the financial and risk characteristics of trading strategies and products.
Product Strategy: Assisting in evaluating the potential risks and returns of new products or trading strategies, ensuring that these align with the company’s risk appetite and financial objectives.
Advisory Role: Acting as a financial and control advisor to trading desks, offering guidance on optimal product structures, risk management strategies, and operational efficiencies.

System Development and Maintenance: Helping to develop, implement, and maintain systems for product control functions, such as trade capture, valuation, risk management, and P&L reporting systems.
Automation and Optimization: Striving to automate manual processes where possible to enhance efficiency, reduce the risk of human error, and improve the overall control environment.

Process Optimization: Identifying and implementing improvements to the product control processes, enhancing both operational efficiency and the timeliness of reporting.
Standardization: Standardizing processes across different product lines or business units to ensure consistency in reporting and control.

Trade Life Cycle Management: Overseeing the entire lifecycle of a trade, from execution through to settlement, ensuring that all stages are captured correctly and that the P&L and risk implications are accurately reflected.
Settlement and Cash Flows: Ensuring that all settlements are processed correctly and that cash flows related to financial products are tracked and reconciled.

Performance Monitoring: Tracking and reporting on key performance indicators (KPIs) for trading desks, including profitability, risk-adjusted returns, and operational performance.
Benchmarking: Comparing product performance to relevant benchmarks, ensuring that trading and investment strategies meet expected returns and risk profiles.
Settlement and Cash Flows: Ensuring that all settlements are processed correctly and that cash flows related to financial products are tracked and reconciled.