Product Owner Finance

Red King Resourcing; West End; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading recruitment agency is urgently seeking a Product Owner with 2-3 years of experience, preferably in financial services. This role involves acting as a business partner for product development, ensuring alignment with customer needs and commercial goals. Candidates should have an accountancy background and strong understanding of financial principles. The position requires excellent communication skills and experience in Agile environments, with the opportunity to work in the West End of London up to 3 days a week.

Qualifications

• 2-3 years experience as a Product Owner in financial services or fintech.
• Strong understanding of financial principles and commercial drivers.
• Experience in managing and prioritising backlogs in Agile environments.

Responsibilities

• Act as a voice of the customer and business partner.
• Own and prioritise the product backlog.
• Monitor product performance and identify opportunities for improvement.
• Support Product Manager and delivery teams to ensure clarity on requirements.

Skills

Product management

Financial principles

Agile delivery

Stakeholder communication

Education

Accountancy qualification or background

Job description

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.

Key Responsibilities

• 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.

About You

• 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