Product Manager

Описание: Finastra is a global financial services software company. Its technology powers mission-critical solutions across lending, payments, and universal banking for more than 7,000 customers in over 110 countries.

Задачи

• Define and drive the roadmap for Islamic origination and profit distribution capabilities.
• Translate strategic objectives into product initiatives across onboarding, financing journeys, pool management, profit calculation, and distribution.
• Align product investments with customer needs, regulatory expectations, and market demand.
• Lead the end-to-end requirements lifecycle from intake and analysis through development and validation.
• Translate business needs into functional and technical specifications, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
• Perform impact analysis across contracts, pools, ledgers, accounting, and dependent systems.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to deliver scalable, high-quality solutions.
• Act as a liaison between product, engineering, implementation, compliance stakeholders, and customers.
• Facilitate workshops, requirements discussions, product demos, and stakeholder alignment sessions.
• Gather, analyze, and reconcile inputs from multiple stakeholders to support decision-making.
• Support and validate unit, integration, and business acceptance testing.
• Ensure delivered features meet functional requirements, financial integrity standards, and Shariah compliance.
• Distinguish defects from enhancements and drive appropriate prioritization.
• Support release readiness activities, including documentation, release notes, and communications.
• Ensure integration with Islamic financing and servicing systems, deposits, pools, general ledger modules, digital onboarding and channel platforms, and risk, compliance, and reporting systems.
• Drive interoperability across APIs, services, and partner ecosystems.
• Partner with technical writers to produce product documentation.
• Ensure documentation supports implementation, operations, and audit and compliance requirements.
• Enable product understanding across internal teams and clients.
• Identify training needs and deliver product enablement for internal teams and customers.
• Act as a subject matter expert for Islamic banking capabilities.
• Drive adoption and effective usage of product features.
• Mentor and guide junior team members.
• Lead cross-functional collaboration and facilitate workshops or working groups.
• Identify and drive improvements in product management processes and delivery frameworks.

Требования

• Solid experience in financial services with strong exposure to Islamic banking.
• Deep understanding of Islamic financing and profit distribution.
• Deep understanding of core banking systems, including loans, deposits, and payments.
• Understanding of the interaction between Islamic and conventional banking models.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities.
• Understanding of APIs and service-oriented or microservices architecture.
• SQL knowledge preferred.
• Ability to translate complex business requirements into structured solutions.
• Experience with Agile/Scrum methodologies and SDLC processes.
• Experience managing the full requirements lifecycle from intake through delivery and validation.
• Ability to manage multiple concurrent initiatives in a fast-paced environment.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Strong facilitation and influencing capabilities across technical and business teams.
• Experience mentoring and developing team members.
• Proven ability to collaborate across cross-functional teams.
• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Computer Science, or a related field.
• Nice to have: MBA or equivalent, product certifications such as Scrum Product Owner or Pragmatic, experience with platform-based or cloud-native banking systems, knowledge of banking regulatory and compliance frameworks, demonstrated success delivering customer-centric product enhancements.

Условия

• Unlimited vacation subject to local regulations and business priorities.
• Paid time off for voting, bereavement, sick leave, and volunteering.
• Employee Assistance Program, Wellbeing Champions, Gather Groups, and monthly well-being events.
• Medical, life, and disability insurance.
• Retirement plans and lifestyle benefits.
• Donation-matching opportunities.
• Access to inclusion communities.
• Online learning and accredited courses through the Skills & Career Navigator tool.
• Participation in the Finastra Celebrates recognition program and regular employee surveys.
• Benefits may vary by location.