Senior Product Manager, Financial Crime

Senior Product Manager

We are looking for a Senior Product Manager in our Core Services team. The role will take ownership of our Financial Crime capabilities. You'll work in close partnership with our Fraud, AML, Compliance, Technology, and Product teams to build robust, scalable, and effective FinCrime solutions.

We're Funding Circle. We back small businesses to succeed. At Funding Circle, we believe the world needs small businesses. That's why we've made it our mission to help them get the finance they need to grow. With more than a decade of expertise under our belt, we've built a game-changer of a platform with cutting-edge data and technology that's reshaping the landscape of SME lending. Say goodbye to lengthy applications and hello to lightning-fast decisions! In just minutes, SMEs across the UK can get a decision, giving them access to competitive funding in a flash. We know that good business is about good people. So we pride ourselves on providing meaningful, human support as well as fast, hassle-free processes to deliver an unbeatable customer experience.

The role

You will lead the charge in defining the strategy and roadmap for developing our financial crime capabilities, for the critical systems that protect our customers and our platform from fraud and money laundering. These capabilities underpin our entire product offering, including our business credit card, FlexiPay pay-by-instalment product, and business loans.

Own the vision and strategy for the development of Funding Circle's FinCrime capabilities, defining the short, mid, and long-term roadmap in partnership with our Fraud and AML teams.

Produce high-quality product requirements that enable your product teams to develop solutions that protect the business and our customers from financial crime, while enabling safe and scalable growth.

Build strong relationships with stakeholders across the business, becoming the go-to person in the FinCrime domain to enable fast, effective decision-making and execution.

Connect the dots between regulatory changes, emerging criminal typologies, and our strategic objectives to drive effective risk management and positive business outcomes.

Proactively problem solving, identifying and confidently mitigating any risks, issues or control weaknesses that arise in your day-to-day.

What we're looking for

6+ years of relevant experience in Product Management, working in a regulated financial services environment (e.g., fintech, banking, payments).

Experience in Financial Crime areas such as Anti-Money Laundering (AML), Know Your Customer (KYC), Transaction Monitoring, Sanctions Screening, and Fraud Prevention.

Experience working with operational teams to improve and automate their workflows and tooling. Familiarity with Salesforce would be a bonus.

Experience understanding opportunities through both quantitative (e.g., analysing alert data, operational metrics) and qualitative (e.g., user interviews with ops teams) methods and using these insights to develop impactful products.

Worked in empowered Product & Engineering teams to support delivery of the strategy, product vision, OKRs and roadmaps to drive business performance, owning product development & delivery through its lifecycle.

Demonstrated ability to collaborate with a diverse set of stakeholders (including Operations, Compliance, Engineering etc) to maximise value, make tough trade-off decisions, and deliver results.

Strong problem-solving and analytical skills, with a proven ability to dissect complex, legacy systems and processes to find opportunities for automation and improvement, and to build compelling business cases for your ideas.

At Funding Circle we are committed to building diverse teams so please apply even if your past experience doesn't align perfectly with the requirements.

Why join us?

At Funding Circle, we celebrate and support the differences that make you, you. We're proud to be an equal-opportunity workplace and affirmative-action employer. We truly believe that diversity makes us better.

As a flexible-first employer we offer hybrid working at Funding Circle, and we've long believed in a 'best of both' approach to in-office collaboration and non-office days. We expect our teams to be in our London office three times a week, where you can take advantage of our newly refurbished hybrid working space, barista made coffee and subsidised lunches (via JustEat) every day!

We back our Circlers to build their own incredible career, making a difference to small businesses every day. Our Circler proposition is designed to support employees both in and out of work, and it is anchored around four pillars: Health, Wealth, Development & Lifestyle.

A few highlights:

Flexibility: We provide you with a benefit allowance so that you can tailor your benefit selection to you and your family's needs.

Health: Private Medical Insurance, Dental Insurance, Health Cash Plan, Health Assessments (including female fertility health assessments), eyecare vouchers, flu jabs, Wellhub (for discounted flexible gym membership and access to wellbeing apps) access to a free Employee Assistance Programme and free Digital GP for yourself and any children under 16.

Wealth: Life Assurance, Income Protection, Critical Illness Cover, financial coaching through Octopus Money Coach, a tax-advantaged share scheme, a free mortgage advisor partnership and discounts across numerous retailers through Perks at Work.

Development: Dedicated annual Learning & Development allowance and full access to internal learning platform.

Lifestyle: Electric Car Scheme, Cycle to Work scheme, Season Ticket Loans, and more!

And finally, we have award-winning parental leave policies supporting parents through enhanced maternity, partner and adoption leave, as well as additional leave for parental bereavement and for fertility treatments.

Ready to make a difference? We'd love to hear from you.