Jobs in Finnland

The application period for OP Financial Group's 2026 Kiitorata Trainee Program is now open! We are looking for approximately 40 open-minded and courageous talents for diverse, challenging, and skill-enhancing roles in various business areas.

Are you interested in the finance industry, excited about future technology solutions, and wanting to work as a production and development specialist? We are strengthening OP's Production Engineering Center of Excellence with a System Product Owner Trainee!

Your role in a nutshell

You will be part of either the business or technology team, where you will work in a versatile technology environment, managing service processes for application areas and ensuring system reliability, quality, and seamless operation. In this role, you will have the opportunity to learn how incident communication, and the technical investigation and resolution of system issues are handled in collaboration with teams and suppliers.

You will engage in application maintenance in close cooperation with our partners' experts, making supplier management and collaboration in a multi-supplier environment a key part of your role. You will ensure compliance with maintenance service agreements and participate in procurement and cost management. In the spirit of continuous service improvement, you will identify development areas and drive their implementation. Your work will also include reporting on service production quality and cost efficiency to stakeholders. You will be surrounded by a network of service management colleagues who offer support for everyday challenges.

Does this sound like you?

You are interested in the finance industry and have IT skills. You communicate fluently in English and have completed or are currently completing a higher education degree.

You are interested in becoming a professional in service production. You are eager to learn maintenance tasks and develop your skills in building support models and working with evolving technologies. You are interested in guiding development teams' service production processes, as well as managing international supplier collaborations, contract matters, and monitoring contract compliance.

You have sufficient technical expertise to manage the technologies and solutions of your application area and understand technical solutions for managing the application lifecycle. You have experience in utilizing DevOps principles and agile culture, and you want to learn about the SIAM model.

You can manage large entities, proactively seek new solutions, and work independently with initiative. You perform well under pressure and maintain a calm, solution-oriented approach, especially in potential incident situations.

Fluency in Finnish is beneficial, particularly in cross-team collaboration.

A Few Words About Us…

Our teams work in an agile model, where team members have a say in the team's practices and priorities. At the core of our approach are multi-talented and self-directed teams with clear responsibilities. In the role of System Product Owner Trainee, you will experience firsthand how to ensure service management processes, system reliability, quality, and seamless operation in applications managed by either the business or technology team.

…and why you should work for us

Both our business and technology platforms are undergoing significant technological reforms. These provide an opportunity to learn practically how service architecture is modernized in an environment with extremely strict requirements for reliability and security. You will be supported by experienced colleagues, alongside whom you will have an excellent opportunity to grow your experience and expertise.

At OP, you will work on challenging tasks of daily life, and in addition to gaining a vast amount of life skills and new expertise, you will be a part of Finland's most attractive financial industry player. With your actions and a determined attitude, you can influence your own career path here. We support your personal development and encourage you boldly! You will be employed by OP for a paid six-month contract from March 1 to August 31, 2026, and we offer the same salary to you and all trainee colleagues; €3,150 per month.

To help counterbalance work where you are expected to take a lot of responsibility, we seek to ensure employee wellbeing and to enable forward-looking work arrangements. We offer a stable working environment where you can contribute to our core values responsibility, people first and succeeding together.

You will enjoy a wide range of staff benefits, including a personnel fund and special terms for employee banking, insurance, and loan services. We offer comprehensive occupational health care, extensive medical treatment expenses insurance and a full-time group accident insurance policy. We invest in wellbeing at work by encouraging a good work-life balance, providing flexibility in your daily life, and offering lunch, sport and cultural benefits and opportunities for affordable holidays in OP timeshares.

Join our team of future stars!

If you have any questions about the position or working with us, you can get more information from Head of Production Engineering CoE Milla Ahola p. +358 50598 2764 (Call times weekdays between 0800 am - 0900 am).

Next, we would like to hear more about you, so apply by telling us about your skills and motivation in the form of an application and video responses. Apply for the position by Sunday, October 19, 2025, at the latest by 1) submitting your application documents via the Apply Now button and 2) additionally responding to our video interview questions through this link.

We will start processing applications as soon as the application period opens, so explore our diverse trainee positions and send your application to us today!

Here's How Our Application Process Works

• Apply for the positions by October 19, 2025, through OP's career site where you can find job-specific job postings and additional information about the Kiitorata Trainee Program.
• Please submit your application documents via the Apply Now button and additionally respond to our video interview questions through this link. Please note that progressing to the next stage requires both submitting your application documents through our application portal and providing video responses to our questions.
• We will contact all applicants regarding further steps by Tuesday, November 11, 2025. Those selected for personal interviews will be contacted by phone to arrange an interview date, and those not selected will be informed via email.
• We will interview and announce selection decisions to the finalist candidates by December 19, 2025. As part of the selection process, all finalist candidates will undergo personality assessments.
• The employment contract will be for the period from March 1 to August 31, 2026.

We operate in the financial sector and our business is founded on trust and accountability. For this reason, we will check the successful candidate's credit history, corporate connections, and potential conflicts of interest. In addition, the successful candidate must take a drug test and will be subject to a security clearance vetting by the Finnish Security and Intelligence Service.

OP Financial Group - We have something in common

We at OP Financial Group highly respect diversity and equity. We want everyone to feel welcome and valued as part of our community. We appreciate diverse people, experiences, and viewpoints and we encourage everyone to apply for a job with us because we all have something in common.

Owned by our customers, we are one of the most appealing employer and the leading financial services group in Finland. OP Financial Group employs over 14,000 professionals and our main task is to promote sustainable financial success, security, and well-being for our owner-customers and our operating region.