Team Product Owner - Trade Control and Reconciliations, Markets Platform

JOB TITLE: Team Product Owner - Trade Control and Reconciliations, Markets Platform

LOCATION: London

HOURS: Full-Time

WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at one of our office sites

About This Opportunity

As the UK's largest Retail, Digital and Commercial bank Lloyds Banking Group (LBG) has a huge responsibility to support the UK economy and help it prosper whilst putting customers at the heart of everything we do. We're also embarking on a three-year transformation programme - putting unprecedented levels of investment into our platforms, people, and data capabilities to build the bank of the future

This is a Team Product Owner role which sits within the Trade Execution lab in the Markets Platform. The team is highly adaptable and support continuous change to keep up with evolving regulations, products and market trends. You’ll share your working environment with an energetic group of motivated people covering a highly significant area of processing to support business operations. The role on offer is demanding but extremely exciting, with new challenges presenting themselves regularly to stay current in the world post-trade processing.

What You'll Be Doing

The purpose of the Product Owner is the overall ownership for a single product backlog which contains 2-3 features, journeys or technology components. This role is responsible to oversee the release of incremental value within an overall product, with the primary aim of delivering value to customers and partners by ensuring the team focuses on the right priorities.

Role responsibilities:

• Supports development of Lab or Team objectives and key results and provides product performance and benefits realisation data

• Defines user-stories to meet customer needs

• Works with Customer Journey Manager to analyse user stories for customer journey improvements

• Shapes Product vision and roadmap at Lab or Team level

• Prioritises, refines and manages Lab or Team Product backlog

• Accountable for Product change governance (e.g., CMIA / SPFIA) and Business Readiness activities (e.g., training and comms, testing and readiness for implementation) for their respective features, journeys or technology components. Note: PO’s are accountable but activities to be delivered by the whole ‘team’.

• Plays a role in developing capabilities within their functional area and invests in personal and team growth through mentoring and other informal methods

• Works with Integrators when change is particularly large

Additional responsibilities for Technical Lab or Team Product Owners:

• Owns and manages the product backlog for a Group-wide technology asset

• Develops technical design for the product

• Delivers against a product budget, performing financial and data analysis

• Manages all product risk

• Defines the segmentation and supplier strategy

• Environment Planning and other technical activities

What You'll Need

You'll bring relevant experience, skills and qualifications in the following areas:

• Knowledge and experience of working across business and engineering teams in a Financial Markets context

• Good knowledge of post trade product lifecycle, with a focus on settlements and controls.

• Excellent knowledge of the Markets business and the Trade Lifecycle

• Significant experience in Financial services with experience in FX, Rates, Commodities or Structured products.

• Senior leader capable of building relationships with senior partners

• You'll influence positively - demonstrating the right values and behaviours while encouraging this within your team members.

About Working For Us

Our ambition is to be the leading UK business for diversity, equity and inclusion supporting our customers, colleagues and communities and we’re committed to creating an environment in which everyone can thrive, learn and develop.

We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer Initiative.

We offer reasonable workplace adjustments for colleagues with disabilities, including flexibility in office attendance, location and working patterns. And, as a Disability Confident Leader, we guarantee interviews for a fair and proportionate number of applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role with a disability, long-term health or neurodivergent condition through the Disability Confident Scheme. We provide reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process to reduce or remove barriers. Just let us know what you need.

We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%

• An annual performance-related bonus

• Share schemes including free shares

• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping

• 30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top

• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

If you’re excited by the thought of becoming part of our team, get in touch. We’d love to hear from you. 🚀