NIUM - Product Manager - Reconciliation & Accounting Tools

What is the story?

We started out in 2015 with a vision to simplify the digital cross-border payments experience for complex markets. Over time, we grew into a global Fintech platform, regulated in over 40 markets and reaching across 180 countries. Today we are a universal plug for financial services and our BaaS offering straddles cross-border payments, card issuance, and collections by way of capability. We have clients in all 6 continents and have diversified our offerings to meet the needs of banks, financial institutions, SMEs, and New Economy businesses like eCommerce and online travel. We are a team of more than 400 people across 11 offices globally and growing. Our vision is to embed world-class financial services into every platform we touch.

Our network is powered by our portfolio of licenses, hard-earned by building trust with financial regulators in over 38 countries. This combination of regulatory and tech assets is unique to Nium and is at the core of our unique value proposition.

Where do you come into the picture?

- You will come in as a senior member of our Financial Reconciliation & Accounting process. As a Reconciliation and Accounting Product owner, you will be working with the Financial Reconciliation Team, Finance, Engineering Team, the Platform Team (the ecosystem for payments here at NIUM) and the Product team.

- You will need to be collaborative as a team member and always be willing to share the knowledge with colleagues. You will act as bridge for all the functions (mentioned above).

- Curiosity and constant learning are a mainstay of your personal code! Your Communication skills with strong verbal and written skills should help you easily adapt to different communication and working styles.

- As an Active listener with good organizational skills and a Self-starter and quick learner you will scale new heights. Your ability to get hands-on with work and get it done attitude will help you shine at Nium

What would a day in your life @ Nium look like?

- Define the product vision as well as develop and maintain the product roadmap.

- Be the connector/liaison for product, engineering, analytics, and business operations through the entire project life cycle.

- Design product reconciliations that satisfy various business requirements; drive the testing, implementation, and post-production support.

- Develop and track initiatives milestones and schedules for many moving parts. Estimate work efforts, manage teams competing priorities, and remove blockers / dependencies to push the team to be highly effective. Manage project schedules, identifying risks and clearly communicating them to project stakeholders.

- Gather requirements and scope projects, facilitate discussions and drive resolution of issues. Drive and stay on top of project/program execution and highlight risks. Proactively remove obstacles to drive momentum and progress. Manage issue escalations and provide support to teams balancing competing priorities.

- Work closely with engineering and business partners to resolve issues that arise during design and implementation and post-production.

What expertise & experiences would you need to have to play this kind of role?

- Masters Degree from a Premier Institute in Management or Technology

- 5+ years of experience in product management for a Reconciliation/Accounting tool.

- An understanding of technology in terms of architecture at high-level.

- Hands on experience of tools like Jira, Confluence.

- Attention to details with strong documentation skills.

- Should have worked in an Agile methodology.

- Ability to communicate effectively with Engineering Team, Business Users and Product team.

- Behavioral competencies : strong stakeholder management skills, ability to negotiate where required, provide a - no surprise- environment, ability to focus on the long term goal and yet support short term approaches where required and accepted

Join the world of Open Money @ NIUM

We, at Nium, are on a mission to transform global financial infrastructure. We are driven by our co-created values of teamwork, innovation, customer obsession and accountability. These aren't just buzzwords, they're how we do business every day and owned by each and every employee at Nium. We create new rules and new possibilities for a world of open money