Senior Product Manager, Safeguarding

Company Description

Visa is a world leader in payments and technology, with over 259 billion payments transactions flowing safely between consumers, merchants, financial institutions, and government entities in more than 200 countries and territories each year. Our mission is to connect the world through the most innovative, convenient, reliable, and secure payments network, enabling individuals, businesses, and economies to thrive while driven by a common purpose – to uplift everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid.

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What’s it all about?

The Treasury Product team are responsible for creating and building a real time treasury solution, supporting a portfolio of products and adding sustainable value to the business. This role will be responsible for gathering and analysing business requirements and supporting development teams evaluate and prioritise backlogs. This may include:

• Managing and owning the product backlog, ensuring top-priority items are clearly documented and understood by developers and testers
• Attending and participating in agile ceremonies (daily stand-up, backlog refinement, spring planning, etc.)
• Collaborating with other Product Owners, Product Managers and the Head of Treasury Product to ensure delivery of product initiatives remain on-time, in budget and align with strategic objectives
• Validating and approving QA testing before UAT release
• Supporting in Program Increment (PI) planning sessions to define increment plan for scrum team.

Your mission:

• The overall objective of the SPM - Safeguarding within the treasury team is to build towards a real time unified treasury for all Visa Direct products i.e. Collection, Hold, Payouts and Conversions. The focus of the role in the short term is as a follow, this might change to other areas as the platform matures.
  • Develop real-time financial systems at global scale
  • As the Safeguarding Product Lead, you will spearhead the development and maintenance of the different safeguarding micro services i.e. Safeguarding ledger, safeguarding obligations, safeguarding reconciliations etc.
  • You will be a key point of contact from product team working with different stakeholders from compliance, technology and others with the objective of building a new safeguarding strategy.
  • Treasury team is instrumental in managing liquidity to enable Visa Direct to meet speed promises and minimising costs. You will be responsible developing the infrastructure that will enable us to optimise our liquidity management.
  • Visa Direct is rapidly expanding globally, creating new products to consumers and businesses, entering new jurisdictions and offering new products. This is a unique opportunity to lead complex projects integrating new Visa products and markets into our Treasury systems.
  • You will ensure that we implement and update the systems to enable the treasury team to fulfil its safeguarding obligations as Visa Direct continues to scale into new markets and products.

What we expect of you, day to day.

This role will report to the Senior Product Director and be responsible for turning the product vision, strategy and design into reality. This position requires an experienced Product Owner with deep payments experience and a proven ability to get things done and shall:

• Lead multiple product development work streams across the business.
• Work with business stakeholders to elicit, analyse, communicate and validate requirements for changes to business processes, policies, information and systems to achieve final technology/business solution.
• Defining the product backlog – work with stakeholders to understand the business objectives translate these into requirements to create the product roadmap ensure the product is developed in line with the business objective
• Shape and maintain Product backlog, ensure product backlog items are clearly captured and understood by developers.
• Ensure the product backlog is visible, transparent, and clear to all, including dependencies and priorities based on the overall strategy.
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