Director, Structured Finance Product Owner / Agile Product Lead - London

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Fitch Ratings .

Fitch Ratings is seeking a Director - Structured Finance Product Owner / Agile Product Lead based out of our London office. Fitch Ratings is one of the world’s top three credit ratings agencies, providing credit analysis, ratings, research, and commentary to financial market participants. Fitch Ratings is part of Fitch Group, a global leader in financial information services with operations in more than 30 countries, and is owned by Hearst.

Explore a career at Fitch Ratings and you’ll join a collaborative network of curious minds. Our differences are our strengths, and we work with integrity and objectivity to provide clarity to the world’s financial markets. We pride ourselves on harnessing the ideas, expertise, and professionalism of our global workforce to help market participants make important credit decisions with confidence.

About The Team

Ratings Workflow Solutions (RWS), part of the Ratings COO organization, is a cross-functional, agile team responsible for designing, implementing, and optimizing applications and workflows used by our Ratings staff. The team aims to streamline processes, mitigate risks, and advance standardization and automation across Fitch’s ratings platforms and workflows. The team partners closely with analytical, business, and technology staff to ensure our systems support the needs of the Ratings organization and enable staff to work effectively.

How You’ll Make An Impact

We’re looking for an experienced and dynamic Product Owner to lead an agile delivery team supporting Fitch’s Structured Finance credit analysts and their internal workflows. In this role, you’ll lead the squad, work with different groups to understand needs, solve problems, and ensure we’re building solutions that advance business objectives. You’ll work alongside analytical groups and technology teams to align priorities and deliver key outcomes. Strong leadership, communication, and organizational skills are important, and you should enjoy working with colleagues who have different levels of experience with Agile. A collaborative, customer-first mindset is essential.

Define overall strategy and direction of the applications covered based on understanding of organizational goals and analytical groups’ needs.

Own the backlog, feature prioritization, roadmap, and the MVP in support of business objectives.

Communicate and align with stakeholders to prioritize features and ensure a shared vision of sprint goals and backlogs.

Lead the Agile squad to define and align sprint goals, ensuring "ready" user stories and supporting the squad to deliver on sprint commitments. Identify dependencies and other execution risks.

Provide timely feedback and answers to the squad; ultimately accept or reject the product increments of the sprint.

Oversee the squad’s quarterly delivery, ensuring goals are met and business value is delivered.

Identify opportunities for process improvements and drive initiatives to enhance efficiency and effectiveness of the Ratings business.

Enhance and automate processes to improve data quality, standardize workflows, and integrate key systems.

Analyze and break down complex workflows and system processes for current (As-Is) and future (To-Be) states in support of automation and standardization.

Oversee and guide user training, rollout, and change management processes.

You May Be a Good Fit If

Bachelor’s degree and 5+ years of product ownership experience.

Agile practitioner capabilities and experience with Agile teams.

Proven track record of delivering workflow and data-driven solutions with a customer-first mindset.

See the business as a customer and translate requirements into technical solutions.

Ability to create and maintain a backlog and roadmap, and prioritize backlog based on business value and technical feasibility.

Track record of delivering results in a high-demand, matrixed organization.

Strong interpersonal and organizational skills, with ability to work well with teams and stakeholders.

Proficiency in Jira, Excel, PowerPoint, and Word.

What Would Make You Stand Out

Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) certification.

Exceptional communication skills to engage and influence stakeholders at all levels.

Demonstrated ability to oversee complex projects in a high-demand, matrixed organization.

Prior experience in debt capital markets, financial services or consulting.

Why Choose Fitch

Hybrid Work Environment: 3 days a week in office, depending on line of business and location.

A Culture of Learning and Mobility: Training, leadership development, and mentorship programs.

Investing in Your Future: Retirement planning and tuition reimbursement.

Health and Wellbeing: Comprehensive healthcare offerings for physical, mental, financial, social, and occupational wellbeing.

Supportive Parenting Policies: Generous global parental leave.

Inclusive Work Environment: Collaborative workplace with Employee Resource Groups.

Giving Back: Paid volunteer days, matched donations, and volunteering opportunities.

Fitch is committed to providing global securities markets with objective, timely, independent and forward-looking credit opinions. To protect Fitch’s credibility, employees must disclose potential conflicts of interest prior to commencing employment. If you have holdings that may conflict with your work responsibilities, you may be asked to divest before beginning work. Fitch is proud to be an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer, evaluating qualified applicants regardless of race, color, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status, and other statuses protected by law.

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