Product Owner - Financial Crime

Financial Crime Systems Product Owner

This is a unique opportunity to shape the future of Financial Crime technology at Yorkshire Building Society.

As Financial Crime Systems Product Owner, you will take ownership of the Society's Financial Crime systems landscape, ensuring our technology continues to evolve to meet regulatory expectations, operational needs, and emerging financial crime threats.

In the short term, you will play a key role in maximising the value of our existing Financial Crime platforms, working closely with internal stakeholders and technology suppliers to ensure we fully utilise system capabilities and deliver against our transformation objectives.

Over time, you will become the strategic owner of the Financial Crime technology roadmap, driving future enhancements, influencing supplier development plans, identifying opportunities for innovation, and ensuring our systems continue to support the Society's long-term ambitions.

This role requires someone who can operate strategically whilst remaining close to delivery. You will work across Financial Crime, Operations, Change, Technology, Risk, Compliance, and third-party suppliers to ensure business requirements are understood, prioritised and translated into effective solutions.

You will also play a critical role in assessing the impact of wider organisational and technology change on Financial Crime systems and controls, ensuring risks, dependencies, operational impacts, and opportunities are identified early and managed effectively.

This is an exciting opportunity for a self-driven individual who can challenge constructively, influence stakeholders at all levels and establish effective ways of working that support successful and sustainable delivery.

What you'll be doing

Technology & Product Ownership

• Own and maintain the Financial Crime systems roadmap, ensuring priorities align with business objectives, regulatory requirements, and strategic goals.
• Act as Product Owner for Financial Crime platforms, managing product backlogs, priorities, and delivery outcomes.
• Define and communicate a clear vision for the future development of Financial Crime technology within YBS.

System Optimisation & Innovation

• Maximise the value delivered through Financial Crime systems by identifying opportunities to improve effectiveness, efficiency, and user experience.
• Work with internal teams and suppliers to understand emerging capabilities and determine how new functionality can be leveraged across the Society.
• Continuously review system performance, utilisation, and effectiveness to drive ongoing improvement.

Supplier & Vendor Management

• Develop strong relationships with technology suppliers and strategic partners.
• Influence supplier roadmaps and challenge vendors to maximise the value delivered to YBS.
• Ensure YBS fully capitalises on system capabilities, future developments, and industry innovation.

Change & Transformation Leadership

• Assess the impact of business, operational and technology change on Financial Crime systems and processes.
• Ensure Financial Crime technology considerations are embedded into wider organisational change initiatives.
• Identify risks, dependencies, operational impacts, and readiness activities required to support successful implementation.
• Drive adoption of agile and product-led ways of working across stakeholders and delivery teams.

Stakeholder Engagement

• Build trusted relationships across Financial Crime, Technology, Operations, Risk, Compliance and Change teams.
• Influence senior stakeholders and provide expert guidance on system capabilities, priorities, and strategic direction.
• Translate complex business requirements into clear deliverables and outcomes.

Risk & Regulatory Compliance

• Ensure Financial Crime systems continue to support compliance with regulatory obligations and internal control requirements.
• Support assurance, testing, and governance activities to maintain system effectiveness.
• Identify and mitigate risks associated with Financial Crime technology and change initiatives.

About You

We're looking for an experienced and motivated individual who combines strong Financial Crime knowledge with product ownership, change delivery and stakeholder management expertise.

You'll be comfortable leading through influence, creating clarity in complex environments and taking ownership of outcomes. You'll be naturally curious, proactive, and driven to continuously improve how Financial Crime technology supports the Society.

Essential Experience & Skills

• Significant experience operating as a Product Owner, Product Manager, Business Lead or Change Lead within Financial Services.
• Strong understanding of Financial Crime and Fraud Prevention, including customer screening, sanctions, transaction monitoring, fraud detection, and case management.
• Proven experience delivering complex technology, operational or regulatory change initiatives.
• Strong understanding of Agile delivery methodologies and product-led approaches.
• Experience defining product roadmaps, managing competing priorities and delivering business value through technology.
• Demonstrable ability to assess the impact of business and technology change on systems, processes, controls, and operational teams.
• Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills, including experience working with senior leaders and third-party suppliers.
• Ability to operate autonomously, manage ambiguity and drive outcomes with minimal direction.
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to translate technical concepts into clear business outcomes.

Desirable Experience

• Experience with Financial Crime technology solutions.
• Experience of supplier management and influencing third-party product development roadmaps.
• Experience developing target operating models, governance frameworks, or product management practices.
• Experience leading large-scale transformation programmes within Financial Crime, Risk, Compliance or Operations environments.
• Relevant professional qualifications in Financial Crime, Product Management, Agile Delivery or Change Management.