We are seeking an experienced Product Owner with strong functional expertise in Custody, Trade Settlement, and Asset Servicing domains. The Product Owner will be responsible for driving the delivery of high-impact financial products and services that enhance operational efficiency, reduce risk, and improve client experience.

This role will closely collaborate with business stakeholders, technology teams, and cross-functional squads to define product vision, manage backlogs, and ensure alignment with Northern Trust’s strategic goals.

Key Responsibilities

- Strong working knowledge of Trade Lifecycle and associated activities
- Communicate the Vision and Goals at the beginning of each Release and Iteration.
- Asses value, develop cases, and prioritize backlog and epics to ensure work focuses on those with a maximum value (such as user value, technical trade-off’s/debt, business value, cost/benefit analysis, business accounting, operating costs, market and competitor analysis, stakeholder management, etc.) that are aligned with product strategy
- Develop scope and define backlog items (epic/features/user stories) that guide the Agile software development team.
- Elaborate stories and defines acceptance criteria embracing lean, test driven development and agile practices. Accept stories as ‘done.’
- Solve product related problems, make decisions, and complete trade-off analysis to stay on
- Provide an active role in mitigating impediments impacting successful team completion of Release/Sprint Goals.




- Possess an understanding of end-to-end user experience, integration and dependencies.
- Lead and actively participate in Team Demo and Retrospectives.
- Collaborate and communicate continuously, effectively and directly, with engineers, designers, business stakeholders, BA’s, SME’s and testers.
- Work with Product Management and Stakeholders to define product vision, road-map and growth opportunities.
- Work closely with Product Management to create and maintain a product backlog according to business value or ROI.
- Lead the planning product release plans and set expectation for delivery of new functionalities
- Keep abreast with Agile/Scrum best practices and new trends.
- Product support and user training
- Working knowledge of SWIFT 15022 and ISO 2022 messaging framework

Required Skills and Qualifications

- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Computer Science, or a related field (MBA preferred).
- 8-10 years of total experience, with at least 4+ years as a Product Owner or Business Analyst in financial services.
- Robust functional knowledge of Custody Operations, Trade Settlement, Asset Servicing, or Clearing Systems.
- Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments and using tools like JIRA, Confluence, and ADO.
- Familiarity with post-trade workflows—trade capture, confirmation, matching, settlement, and reconciliation.
- Hands-on experience with data-driven decision-making and stakeholder management.
- Excellent communication, analytical, and problem-solving skills.

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