Product Owner

About the Job you are considering: Seeking an experienced Corporate Actions Product Manager to support a strategic transformation initiative focused on modernizing the firm's Corporate Actions processing capabilities. The role will partner with business, operations, data, and technology teams to define product requirements, drive process improvements, and deliver scalable solutions supporting the future state of Asset Servicing operations. The successful candidate will combine deep Corporate Actions expertise with strong product management capabilities to help shape business requirements, operating models, data frameworks, and delivery priorities across a large-scale modernization program. Hybrid working: The places that you work from day to day will vary according to your role, your needs, and those of the business; it will be a blend of Company offices, client sites, and your home; noting that you will be unable to work at home 100% of the time. Your Role: Lead product definition and delivery for Corporate Actions capabilities across the event lifecycle. Partner with Operations, Technology, Product, and Business stakeholders to define business requirements and translate them into actionable product roadmaps and delivery plans. Develop and maintain product backlogs, user stories, business rules, process flows, and acceptance criteria. Drive prioritization decisions based on business value, operational efficiency, risk reduction, regulatory requirements, and client outcomes. Collaborate with delivery teams to ensure solutions meet functional, operational, and control requirements. Support testing, implementation, and production readiness activities. Partner with stakeholders to define future-state operating models, workflows, control frameworks, and process governance. Drive stakeholder engagement and communication across multiple workstreams and leadership teams. Monitor product performance and identify opportunities for optimization, automation, and continuous improvement. Operating Model Transformation Responsibilities: Support the design and implementation of future-state operating models for Corporate Actions processing. Help define process governance, exception management frameworks, operational procedures, and business readiness activities. Partner with change management and operational leadership teams to ensure successful adoption of new ways of working. Contribute to process optimization and intelligent automation initiatives where appropriate. Drive continuous improvement through data-driven analysis and stakeholder feedback. Your Skills: 8+ years of experience in Corporate Actions, Asset Servicing, Securities Operations, or Capital Markets. Experience serving as a Product Manager, Product Owner, Business Lead, or Transformation Lead. Strong understanding of eligibility calculations, entitlement processing, event lifecycle management, and operational controls. Experience supporting large-scale platform modernization, operating model transformation, or strategic change initiatives. Strong stakeholder management and communication skills. Experience working within investment banks, custody banks, securities services, or financial market infrastructure organizations. We are a Disability Confident Employer: Capgemini is proud to be a Disability Confident Employer (Level 2) under the UK Government’s Disability Confident scheme. As part of our commitment to inclusive recruitment, we will offer an interview to all candidates who: Declare they have a disability, and Meet the minimum essential criteria for the role. Please opt in during the application process. Make It Real (what does it mean for you): You’d be joining an accredited Great Place to work for Wellbeing in 2024. Employee wellbeing is vitally important to us as an organisation. We see a healthy and happy workforce a critical component for us to achieve our organisational ambitions. To help support wellbeing we have trained ‘Mental Health Champions’ across each of our business areas, and we have invested in wellbeing apps such as Thrive and Peppy. You will be empowered to explore, innovate, and progress. You will benefit from Capgemini’s ‘learning for life’ mindset, meaning you will have countless training and development opportunities from thinktanks to hackathons, and access to 250,000 courses with numerous external certifications from AWS, Microsoft, Harvard ManageMentor, Cybersecurity qualifications and much more. You will be joining one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies®, as recognised by Ethisphere® for 13 consecutive years. We live our values by making ethical business choices every day. Working ethically is at the centre of our culture at Capgemini, meaning you will be helping to create a future we can all be proud of. Why you should consider Capgemini: Growing clients’ businesses while building a more sustainable, more inclusive future is a tough ask. When you join Capgemini, you’ll join a thriving company and become part of a collective of free-thinkers, entrepreneurs and industry experts. We find new ways technology can help us reimagine what’s possible. It’s why, together, we seek out opportunities that will transform the world’s leading businesses, and it’s how you’ll gain the experiences and connections you need to shape your future. By learning from each other every day, sharing knowledge, and always pushing yourself to do better, you’ll build the skills you want. You’ll use your skills to help our clients leverage technology to innovate and grow their business. So, it might not always be easy, but making the world a better place rarely is. About Capgemini: Capgemini is an AI-powered global business and technology transformation partner, delivering tangible business value. We imagine the future of organisations and make it real with AI, technology and people. With our strong heritage of nearly 60 years, we are a responsible and diverse group of 420,000 team members in more than 50 countries. We deliver end-to-end services and solutions with our deep industry expertise and strong partner ecosystem, leveraging our capabilities across strategy, technology, design, engineering and business operations. The Group reported 2024 global revenues of €22.1 billion.