Overview
JOB TITLE: Finance Product Owner – 12 month Fixed Term Contract
LOCATION: Leeds Wellington Place
ADDITIONAL LOCATION(S): Halifax, Bristol, Cardiff, Newport
HOURS: Full Time, 35 hours per week
WORKING PATTERN: Hybrid working – spend at least two days per week, or 40% of time, at one of our office sites
End Date: Monday 13 October 2025
Salary Range: £65,385 - £72,650
We support flexible working – click here for more information on flexible working options. Flexible Working Options: Hybrid Working, Job Share
Job Description
Become a Product Owner in Retail Finance Change by joining Our Team! This is your chance to shape high-impact change - owning the product vision, prioritising delivery, and ensuring that what we deliver truly meets the needs of our customers. Retail Change is a fast-paced, delivery-focused environment where change is real, complex and business critical. We’re looking for someone who brings experience, structure, and best practice to the table - someone who can help shape the future of how we manage change in Retail Finance and make a lasting impact.
Objective: Lead change initiatives and Python-based solutions, ensuring readiness for development and deployment, while delivering value across the business.
Responsibilities
* Own and manage the flow of work through the Kanban system, ensuring priorities are clear and aligned with business value.
* Collaborate with colleagues across Retail Finance and the wider Group to understand needs, define requirements and translate them into actionable user stories.
* Lead prioritisation of initiatives, balancing strategic goals with operational demands.
* Support the delivery of change initiatives and Python-based solutions, ensuring readiness for development and deployment.
* Facilitate regular engagement with colleagues to gather feedback, manage expectations, and ensure successful adoption of delivered outcomes.
* Monitor delivery metrics (e.g., cycle time, throughput) to spot potential for continuous improvement.
* Champion a culture of transparency, collaboration, and outcome-focused delivery.
* Lead agile ceremonies, including planning, backlog refinement and retrospectives.
What You’ll Need
* Proven experience as a Product Owner or similar role in a change or technology delivery environment.
* Strong understanding of agile methodologies and experience working in cross-functional teams.
* Excellent stakeholder management skills, capable of influencing and aligning diverse groups.
* Experience working on both business change and technology delivery projects - ideally including data or Python-based solutions.
* Ability to translate complex requirements into clear, prioritised deliverables.
* A proactive, adaptable approach with a focus on delivering value and driving continuous improvement.
* Ability to manage competing priorities and deliver outcomes in a fast-paced workplace.
* Line management experience.
About Working For Us
Our ambition is to be the leading UK business for diversity, equity and inclusion supporting our customers, colleagues and communities. We’re committed to creating an environment in which everyone can thrive, learn and develop. We offer reasonable workplace adjustments for colleagues with disabilities, including flexibility in office attendance, location and working patterns. 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 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
Additional Information
We keep your data safe. We will only ask for confidential or sensitive information once you have formally been invited to interview or accepted a verbal offer. We are focused on creating a values-led culture and building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve.
At Lloyds Banking Group, we’re driven by a clear purpose: to help Britain prosper. We offer opportunities to learn, grow and develop, and we are committed to building a truly inclusive workplace where all colleagues can make a real difference.
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