Product Director - Finance

Job Description

Your mission: Your mandate is to build and maintain the foundational financial platform that guarantees the integrity and compliance of every transaction across [Employer hidden — view at passion-project.co.uk]’s global ecosystem. The systems you own secure the integrity of over £40bn in monthly financial flow across all of [Employer hidden].

Your impact: Within the Finance Product team, you will lead the Accounting and Operations workstream. This workstream is the architect of financial truth at [Employer hidden]. You will operate as the foundational service provider that guarantees the integrity of every record of movement of money across the [Employer hidden] ecosystem.

Organisational Role: Your team's systems are the single source of consumable financial data (the ledger of record) that underpins all critical downstream functions, including regulatory reporting, tax filing, as well as strategic decision-making by executive leadership.

The Scale: You will be leading the vision for a ledgering system currently processing over 1bn+ journal entries a month and supporting a sustained throughput of 200k events per minute.

You will also be owning the Finance processes around:

• Accounting business processes
• Master data management
• AR/AP and Payouts

The core questions that you will answer in your role are -

How do you build systems and controls that ensure completeness and accuracy of financial flows?

How do you eliminate operational risks from financial processes?

You will define and execute the product strategy to achieve real-time reconciliation and assurance at global scale, providing functional finance teams with systems they need to operate effectively, compliantly, and efficiently in 50+ countries.

You are joining the Finance Product team at a pivotal, hyper-growth stage as [Employer hidden] prepares to list in the US. The Finance team is strategically expanding its footprint to raise the bar on global regulatory maturity and provide a robust financial foundation for [Employer hidden]’s sustained, rapid growth. This expansion is directly driven by the need to proactively mature our global financial controls and infrastructure to meet the highest standards required of a US-listed, global financial technology company.

Qualifications

Domain Understanding

• Understanding of finance systems in either an engineering, data or product role
• Understanding of operating in Finance organisations including financial reporting, commercials, and risk and controls

Product Management Excellence

• Multiple years of product building experience, either as a product, engineering or operations leader in a hands on role
• Strong individual contributor, willing to get your hands dirty and build product yourself. Typically will have a background that shows they have a superpower (engineer, analyst, consultant, financial, serial entrepreneur, etc).
• Held multiple product roles, and can draw on different experiences and roles when forming opinions and executing.
• A willingness and capability to dive into the technical architecture, engaging directly with engineers to influence ledger design, data models, and event-sourcing patterns.
• Have defined and moved KPIs with features shipped
• Have built roadmaps for teams finding a path from uncertainty/chaos to clarity

Leadership

• Enthusiasm for the [Employer hidden] mission is essential - empathy for the problem we are solving and the fire to build something with no precedent
• Flexible in approach - not stuck to a “by the book” product role definition.
• Understands how to grow existing team members as well as hiring and onboarding team members.
• Enthusiastic about learning new skills to unblock yourself and your team.

Problem Solving

• Analytically-minded, can clearly frame problems, articulate hypotheses and solutions, measure them and has used the tools to be able to do this without an analyst
• Showcases system-level thinking, a proven ability to look beyond the scope of a single product to design interconnected systems

Nice-to-haves:

• Finance, Payments or Treasury experience particularly in Ledgers, Controls or Accounting
• Experience with SOx Controls or Audits
• Experience of third party finance systems

Additional Information

Base salary: £145,000 to £185,000 + RSUs

Restricted Stock Units (RSUs): https://www.[Employer hidden].jobs/what-we-do/our-offer/