Product Owner

About the Role

Partner with business stakeholders, operations teams, technology teams, and product leaders to drive Equity Clearing & Settlement initiatives through requirements gathering, analysis, and validation.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate requirements workshops, stakeholder interviews, and working sessions to identify business needs, challenges, dependencies, and opportunities for process improvement.
• Translate business objectives into detailed business requirements, functional specifications, process flows, use cases, and user stories for technology delivery teams.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to assess the impact of proposed changes, identify risks, and ensure alignment across business and technology stakeholders.
• Analyze current-state and future-state business processes and recommend solutions that improve operational efficiency, customer experience, and regulatory compliance.
• Support project planning activities by defining business requirements, identifying resource needs, estimating effort, and tracking project deliverables.
• Create and maintain business documentation including requirement specifications, workflow diagrams, gap analyses, test scenarios, and business process maps.
• Work closely with development and QA teams to clarify requirements, resolve questions, and validate delivered solutions against business expectations.
• Participate in Agile ceremonies, including sprint planning, backlog refinement, daily standups, reviews, and retrospectives, providing business context and requirement clarification.
• Conduct impact assessments and feasibility analyses for new initiatives, enhancements, and regulatory changes.
• Identify project risks, issues, and dependencies and escalate concerns appropriately to ensure successful project execution.
• Support User Acceptance Testing (UAT) by defining test scenarios, coordinating testing activities, documenting defects, and validating business outcomes.
• Develop reporting, analysis, and data-driven insights to support business decision-making and strategic planning.
• Prepare and deliver executive-level presentations, status updates, and recommendations to business partners and leadership teams.

Requirements

• 5+ years of relevant work experience.
• Understanding of the trade lifecycle and Equity Clearing & Settlement processes is preferred.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with attention to detail.
• Experience gathering and documenting business and functional requirements.
• Ability to create process flows, workflow diagrams, and business documentation.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills with the ability to interact effectively with business and technical stakeholders.
• Experience writing user stories and acceptance criteria.
• Ability to analyze data and present insights using Excel, PowerPoint, charts, and reporting tools.
• Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Self-motivated with a willingness to learn new business processes and technologies.