Senior Product Manager
Finance Platform
Posted on 3/15/2023
INACTIVE
Wise

5,001-10,000 employees

International finance transfer service
Company Overview
Wise’s mission is to create a world with money without borders – moving it instantly, transparently, conveniently, and eventually for free. The company is committed to empowering money for people and businesses through their app and website that utilizes a complex engine of currencies and routes that is being designed and built by their teams across cities around the world.
Financial Services
Data & Analytics

Company Stage

N/A

Total Funding

$1.7B

Founded

2011

Headquarters

, United Kingdom

Growth & Insights
Headcount

6 month growth

8%

1 year growth

22%

2 year growth

91%
Locations
London, UK
Experience Level
Entry
Junior
Mid
Senior
Expert
Desired Skills
Agile
SQL
Requirements
  • You're hands on, and you'd do everything needed to make the team and the product successful. You get it done
  • You have experience in finance systems and familiarity with core principles of accounting & finance
  • You are a seasoned Product Manager with experience managing end-to-end product development lifecycles from scoping to delivery and post production support
  • You are equally willing to work on technical architecture, finance & reporting requirements and are able to shape and influence thinking on these point
  • You enjoy getting deep into the processing logic. You like to be thorough and understand how things work and all their dependencies in-depth. You can channel this knowledge in bringing clarity to the team over complicated processes
  • You inspire others. You can empower and mentor cross-functional teams with a vision and strategy for non-customer facing teams
  • Data-driven - You can pick up the signal from the noise. You are comfortable to dig deep into data, explore and make decisions based on insights
  • You're familiar with SQL and can communicate big data / complex data sets clearly
  • You've applied agile software development methodologies and tools before
  • Previous experience in evaluating APIs and capabilities
  • Passion for technical products and understanding of tech stacks used in software engineering
  • Previous leadership experience
Responsibilities
  • Develop the internal finance systems strategy, create an internal product roadmap to deliver a high data volume, scaleable, real time Financial System with an efficient data pipeline
  • Own our internal finance systems and tools from a requirements and design perspective, working with our in house finance engineers
  • Work with our finance engineering team to provide requirements and feedback on internal infrastructure solutions to make our internal finance systems more robust, efficient and scalable
  • Develop the roadmap and manage the well-groomed backlog of new platform initiatives and enhancements to existing implementations. Ensure requirements are fully understood and that implementation plans match expectations
  • You will own and track the plans and prioritizations for the team, set team KPIs, facilitate and build efficient processes for them to resolve cross-team incidents and retros
  • Own finance team usage of off the shelf reporting systems such as Planful
  • Coach, develop, support and lead 1-2 direct reports, grow the team across London and Tallinn if required
  • Choose your path to impact - we believe people are most empowered when they can act autonomously. So rather than telling you what to do, you'll work with your team to create a vision of your own. Of course, you can always gather feedback from smart, curious people across Wise but you'll have the freedom to make your own calls
  • Grow as a product person and a leader - Grow and inspire your team to join our mission
  • Get amazing exposure to the full breadth and depth of our internal product finance systems while working with a group of amazing and dedicated product managers, engineers, analysts, and operations
  • Work with a modern microservices system with key parts written in-house, which allows to move fast and build controls and experiences that are above industry standards and push the boundaries of what is possible
  • Be part of our mission to make money without borders the new normal