Vice President, Product Owner II

Vice President, POM Product Owner II

At BNY, our culture empowers you to grow and succeed. As a leading global financial services company at the center of the world's financial system we touch nearly 20% of the world's investible assets. Every day around the globe, our 50,000+ employees bring the power of their perspective to the table to create solutions with our clients that benefit businesses, communities and people everywhere.

We continue to be a leader in the industry, awarded as a top home for innovators and for creating an inclusive workplace. Through our unique ideas and talents, together we help make money work for the world. This is what #LifeAtBNY is all about.

We're seeking a future team member for the role of Vice President, POM Product Owner II to join our Asset servicing team. This role is in Pittsburgh, PA -HYBRID (3 Days a week onsite).

In this role, you'll make an impact in the following ways:

• Collaborate with the Product Owner, Business, SMEs, and End Users to gather and develop story level requirements in JIRA that allows the Development Team to deliver consistent level of high-quality code.
• Act as a central point between the Product Owner and Development Team
• Act as a central point to manage defects.
• Required to participate in all agile /sprint activities (planning, backlog refinement, retrospective, standups, and design)
• Create and Maintain Story level functional, non-functional requirements and Acceptance Criteria in JIRA (excluding technical tasks)
• Write and elaborate stories to align with definition of "Ready for Development" whilst also ensuring alignment to the operating model/ data models:
  
  
  
  • Augment stories with additional materials as required, including wireframes, flow diagrams etc.
  • Write stories that are granular to achieve 4-week sprint.
  • Ensure story addresses problem statement and achieves business outcome.
  • Write Acceptance Criteria in Gherkin language, ready to be used in automated testing as required.
  • Validate stories with cross functional stakeholders, including Product Owner, Business, SMEs, and End Users to gather requirements and desired outcomes.
  
  
• Write outcomes and Acceptance Criteria (as captured under requirements) including negative tests, ready to be used in creation of test scripts.
• Review test cases with testers to ensure test results meet expected outcomes as defined in acceptance criteria.
• Prepare and circulate release notes, as a part of operational readiness
• Support other Ops readiness activities as delegated by Product Owner

To be successful in this role, we're seeking the following:

• 5-7 years of total work experience in Project / Product delivery (Agile delivery preferred).
• Relevant market / industry certifications - e.g., AAC, CCBA, CBAP
• Technical skills
  
  
  
  • Agile methodology
  • Project Management using JIRA & Confluence
  • Advance knowledge in Microsoft Excel & PowerPoint
  • Business Analytics using Microsoft Power BI & Tableau
  • Business acumen / knowledge of:
  
  
• Asset Servicing: good understanding of asset servicing business.
• Custody Product Knowledge, specifically:
• Portfolio Services, i.e. Corporate Action, Income, Proxy and Class Action products
• Tax knowledge
• Trade and Settlement lifecycle including Instruction Capture
• Securities Financing Transactions
• Custody Data architecture

At BNY, our culture speaks for itself. Here's a few of our awards:

• America's Most Innovative Companies, Fortune, 2024
• World's Most Admired Companies, Fortune 2024
• Human Rights Campaign Foundation, Corporate Equality Index, 100% score, 2023-2024
• Best Places to Work for Disability Inclusion, Disability: IN - 100% score, 2023-2024
• "Most Just Companies", Just Capital and CNBC, 2024
• Dow Jones Sustainability Indices, Top performing company for Sustainability, 2024
• Bloomberg's Gender Equality Index (GEI), 2023

Our Benefits and Rewards:

BNY offers highly competitive compensation, benefits, and wellbeing programs rooted in a strong culture of excellence and our pay-for-performance philosophy. We provide access to flexible global resources and tools for your life's journey. Focus on your health, foster your personal resilience, and reach your financial goals as a valued member of our team, along with generous paid leaves, including paid volunteer time, that can support you and your family through moments that matter.