Product Owner - Finance

My market leading Client is urgently recruiting for a commercially focused Product Owner, ideally with a strong financial bias to drive the success of their products. This role will play a critical part in ensuring their products meet user needs while delivering measurable business and financial value.

An accountancy or finance background would be a significant advantage, enabling the successful candidate to act as a trusted partner across Product, Finance, and Delivery teams.

• Act as a voice of the customer and the business. Fundamentally, the Product Owner is a business partner for their specific product(s), ensuring alignment between user needs and commercial objectives.

• Serve as a gatekeeper of scope, ensuring focus is maintained and that only value-driven work is delivered.

• Align the product vision and roadmap to support user needs, strategic priorities, and financial outcomes.

• Monitor product performance, identifying opportunities for improvement and defining requirements for enhancement features.

• Own and prioritise the product backlog to address user needs, while ensuring the agreed scope of the product is adhered to.

• Balance regulatory, financial, and operational considerations when making product decisions.

• Support the Product Manager (PM), Business Partners (BP), and Professional Services (PS) teams to deliver a clear and compelling product value case.

• Work closely with delivery teams to ensure requirements are well understood and outcomes are measurable.

• Demonstrable experience, circa 2/3 years as a Product Owner, ideally within financial services, fintech, or finance-led environments.

• Accountancy qualification or background (qualified or part-qualified) is highly desirable.

• Strong understanding of financial principles, commercial drivers, and value-based decision making.

• Proven experience managing and prioritising backlogs in Agile delivery environments.

• Confident communicator, able to engage with technical, financial, and non-technical stakeholders.

• Detail-oriented, pragmatic, and comfortable making decisions that protect product integrity and business value.

This role is a Product Owner, ideally 2-3 years experience, with a good grounding in Finance, working in London up to 3 days a week, inside IR35, if you are happy with this and have the skills / experience, please send an up to date CV for an immediate response and more information on a truly great role with a fantastic Client.