Responsibilities:

• Overseeing the product development process, ensuring that products are compliant with regulatory and statutory requirements and aligned with customer needs
• Conducting assessments for new and existing products, identifying and mitigating any potential areas for improvement.
• Creating and maintaining documentation around product design, customer needs and characteristics, intended target market, performance monitoring and maintenance activities throughout the customer journey.
• Participating in product design and development meetings to ensure governance compliance
• Establishing product maintenance and performance metrics and tracking both real-time/long term performance and adherence to all regulatory requirements.
• Ensuring timely annual product reviews and making recommendations accordingly then leading all actions through to implementation.
• Participating in the implementation of new regulations and policies to ensure compliance
• Providing product-related advice to various stakeholders to ensure that products are properly marketed and sold to the appropriate market
• Keeping up-to-date with market trends, competitor activity, and regulatory changes that may impact products and services

Required experience:

• Demonstrable experience working within a Product Control/Product Management function, with a specific focus on financial products covering retail liabilities, including ISAs, deposit accounts, loans and savings accounts
• Circa 5 years of experience in product governance, risk management or other relevant experience
• Industry knowledge and understanding of competitor products, including compliance and regulatory requirements for various products
• Strong knowledge of financial products and related regulations, as well as best practices in product governance
• This role will require strong stakeholder management and business partnering experience, successful candidates must be a true business partner and advisor to ExCo
• Previous financial services and banking experience is essential
• Excellent communication and problem-solving skills
• Attention to detail and the ability to work under tight deadlines
• Good analytical skills and sound judgment
• Experience with regulatory change management is preferred

Benefits & Perks:

• Equity. We want people to have a stake in the business so that all our interests are aligned.
• 25 days holiday
• Personalized benefits – opt-in to what matters to you
• Enhanced maternity and paternity leave
• Wellbeing and social events
• In-house Barista Bar in London office
• Support causes that matter to you – Volunteering time off
• Salary sacrifice schemes (Cycle to work, nursery, gym)