Senior Product Manager

Job Summary

Required Qualifications

• •Self-starter who can progress new features without micro-management
• •Ability to take initiative and unblock issues without waiting to be told
• •Experience prioritising product domain backlogs to ensure strategic deliverables are completed on time
• •Experience designing standard functionality considering wider needs
• •Experience working closely with Business Analysts and Developers in a collaborative way
• •Experience with procuring and managing third party products
• •Experience driving and owning new solutions and continuous improvement
• •Familiarity with Agile and Scrum methodologies
• •Ability to assess and carry out data analysis to make better informed decisions
• •Experience working in a fast-paced environment juggling multiple priorities against deadlines
• •Experience managing the Compliance domain
• •Experience managing Transaction monitoring for fraud prevention and AML
• •Experience screening accountholders (users, businesses, UBOs) and payees & payers
• •Experience managing the accountholder database as a centralised function for KYC, screening outputs, and risk scoring
• •Experience managing Regulatory reporting where requirements vary between regulators
• •Experience leading a product domain cross functional team from a business perspective
• •Experience leading innovation in the domain
• •Experience collaborating with stakeholders, clients, regulators, and internal departments to capture business requirements
• •Experience prioritising the backlog with a focus on maximising value and adhering to regulations
• •Experience accountable to Head of Product – Compliance, Data & Finance
• •Experience responsible for 1-2 people
• •Ability to be the business point of contact for specified compliance sub-domains
• •Ability to capture and document clear user stories or standard feature overview
• •Ability to provide estimates for roadmap and sprint planning
• •Ability to prioritise the backlog to deliver and focus on adding value to the business
• •Ability to package the service for materials for clients, operations, and client delivery team
• •Ability to support and address impediments outside of the team
• •Ability to give development teams clear business context and measurable business objectives
• •Ability to rationalise the business case to prioritise the backlog in line with Paytech's strategy
• •Ability to understand business cases and arbitrate between requests
• •Ability to challenge where appropriate with relevant data
• •Ability to support other team members to achieve company objectives
• •Ability to promote a positive collaborative atmosphere
• •Ability to ensure budgets are kept under control including 3rd party suppliers
• •Ability to independently manage the implementation of requirements from shaping through to build, acceptance testing and rollout end-to-end
• •Ability to monitor development delivery while identifying, challenging and overcoming delays and obstacles
• •Ability to remove impediments and minimize disruption to maximise development efficiency
• •Ability to plan, effort estimations, and status reporting
• •Product mindset balancing continuous improvement & operational optimisations with client requirements
• •Ability to manage several requests and parallel work streams encompassing IT and ancillary activities
• •Positive attitude and outlook, determined, enthusiastic and resilient
• •Strong communication and interpersonal skills with teams both onshore and offshore
• •Ability to emphasise with clients and internal users to better understand their needs and pain points
• •Ability to work with external international clients and 3rd parties in a customer facing business
• •Quick learner within a fast-paced environment
• •Ability to work independently with agreed remit and autonomy
• •Highly organised with experience of working within an agile environment
• •Analytical mind-set and ability to evaluate the business case/value
• •Comfortable being a bridge between the technical and business worlds
• •Must be a self-starter
• •Must take the initiative
• •Must prioritise product domain backlogs
• •Must have experience of working closely with Business Analysts and Developers
• •Must have experience with procuring and managing third party products
• •Must have experience of operational process improvements
• •Must be familiar with Agile and Scrum methodologies
• •Must be able to assess & carry out data analysis
• •Must have experience working in a fast-paced environment
• •Must be accountable to Head of Product – Compliance, Data & Finance
• •Must be responsible for 1-2 people
• •Must be able to capture and document clear user stories
• •Must be able to provide estimates for roadmap and sprint planning
• •Must be able to prioritise the backlog
• •Must be able to package the service for materials
• •Must be able to support and address impediments outside of the team
• •Must be able to give development teams clear business context
• •Must be able to rationalise the business case
• •Must be able to understand business cases and arbitrate between requests
• •Must be able to support other team members
• •Must be able to ensure budgets are kept under control
• •Must be able to independently manage the implementation of requirements
• •Must be able to monitor development delivery
• •Must be able to plan, effort estimations, and status reporting
• •Must have a product mindset
• •Must have strong communication and interpersonal skills
• •Must be able to work with external international clients
• •Must be a quick learner
• •Must be highly organised
• •Must have an analytical mind-set
• •Must be comfortable being a bridge between the technical and business worlds
• •Must be available for occasional travel between offices in the UK, Europe (potentially 1-3 days)
• •Must be available for international travel (3-5 days in duration) which may exceptionally be required
• •Must be able to work in a hybrid working model between home and office
• •Must be able to work in an office in London, Swindon, Brussels, Bucharest or Mexico City

Desired Qualifications

• •Experience of leading a domain of Product Managers and Business Analysts
• •Experience of completing the transformation of compliance platforms
• •Experience of transformation to a modern data platform
• •Experience navigating a challenging and evolving regulatory landscape in the UK & Europe
• •Experience driving financial crime operational efficiencies
• •Experience providing a 360-accountholder view and case management processes
• •Experience addressing regulatory reporting and audit demands
• •Experience issuing products for agents under Paytech's own e-money licence
• •Experience processing transactions for clients with their own e-money/banking licence
• •Experience in a fast-moving environment
• •Experience managing the Compliance domain where PPS is undergoing a business transformation
• •Experience managing the accountholder database as a centralised function
• •Experience managing Regulatory reporting where requirements vary between regulators
• •Experience leading the product domain cross functional team from a business perspective
• •Experience leading innovation in the domain
• •Experience collaborating with stakeholders, clients, regulators, and internal departments
• •Experience prioritising the backlog with a focus on maximising value and adhering to regulations
• •Experience accountable to Head of Product – Compliance, Data & Finance
• •Experience responsible for 1-2 people
• •Experience being the business point of contact for specified compliance sub-domains
• •Experience capturing and documenting clear user stories or standard feature overview
• •Experience providing estimates for roadmap and sprint planning
• •Experience prioritising the backlog to deliver and focus on adding value to the business
• •Experience packaging the service for materials for clients, operations, and client delivery team
• •Experience supporting and addressing impediments outside of the team
• •Experience giving development teams clear business context and measurable business objectives
• •Experience rationalising the business case to prioritise the backlog in line with Paytech's strategy
• •Experience understanding business cases and arbitrating between requests
• •Experience supporting other team members to achieve company objectives
• •Experience promoting a positive collaborative atmosphere
• •Experience ensuring budgets are kept under control including 3rd party suppliers
• •Experience independently managing the implementation of requirements from shaping through to build, acceptance testing and rollout end-to-end
• •Experience monitoring development delivery while identifying, challenging and overcoming delays and obstacles
• •Experience removing impediments and minimizing disruption to maximise development efficiency
• •Experience planning, effort estimations, and status reporting
• •Experience balancing continuous improvement & operational optimisations with client requirements
• •Experience managing several requests and parallel work streams encompassing IT and ancillary activities
• •Experience having a positive attitude and outlook, determined, enthusiastic and resilient
• •Experience having strong communication and interpersonal skills with teams both onshore and offshore
• •Experience emphasising with clients and internal users to better understand their needs and pain points
• •Experience working with external international clients and 3rd parties in a customer facing business
• •Experience being a quick learner within a fast-paced environment
• •Experience working independently with agreed remit and autonomy
• •Experience being highly organised with experience of working within an agile environment
• •Experience having an analytical mind-set and evaluating the business case/value
• •Experience being comfortable being a bridge between the technical and business worlds
• •Able to construct SQL to retrieve data from databases
• •Understanding of source code and software development lifecycles
• •Foreign languages: Spanish, Portuguese or French