Job Vacancies at Phillips Consulting

Our client is a leading financial services digital platform company that delivers secure and innovative digital solutions to address complex financial needs. Who is seeking to recruit an individual with strong communication, attention to detail, strong strategic thinking, and planning skills to join the Treasury Management team.

He/She will be responsible for executing trades accurately and efficiently, utilizing their strong mathematical aptitude to analyze market trends, evaluate risks, and make informed trading decisions.

Duties/Responsibilities:

• Ensure that all available trades are efficiently closed out within the agreed trade period
• Proactively conduct enhanced research to propose new revenue opportunities to the management team to embark upon
• Ensure that the Company never incurs a loss on any trade carried out by the employee
• Will proactively seek out progressive measures to enhance trade activities
• Responsible for incessantly conducting investment research and market analysis to advise the management team on potential opportunities and challenges
• Liaise with the other departments to ensure that the Company is well-positioned to take advantage of potential trading opportunities in other available markets
• Liaise with the other departments to onboard the Company on profitable trading platforms in order to position the Company for the upside of available trades across African currencies and G3 currencies
• Be flexible and take on new additional responsibilities as directed by your Line Manager and Management team

Required Skills/Abilities

• Ability to learn, adapt, and thrive in a fast-paced environment is required
• Strong analytical skills and financial / treasury systems literacy
• Proactive approach to task management and self-development
• Knowledge of banking relationships and covenants
• Ability to work autonomously and be part of the broader team
• Appropriate handling of sensitive information
• Excellent verbal and communication skills
• Excellent interpersonal, negotiation, and conflict-resolution skills
• Excellent organization skills and attention to detail
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

Education & Experience

• Minimum qualification, Second class (upper division)
• Minimum 4 years’ experience in a similar role
• Excellent knowledge of Treasury Operations, Currency Trading Operations, Financial Analysis, Foreign Banking
• Operations, and Risks in Foreign Exchange Transactions
• Ability to execute trades accurately and efficiently, utilizing your strong mathematical aptitude to analyze market trends, evaluate risks and make informed trading decisions.

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Description

Our client is a financial services digital platform company that delivers secure and innovative digital solutions to address complex financial needs. We are looking for an individual with strong communication, time management, and problem-solving skills to join our product management team.

The role entails working with cross-functional teams to design, build, launch and deploy our treasury and cash management, multi-bank connectivity and foreign currency conversion solutions, which deliver the company’s vision and strategy. The candidate will be required to manage the entire life cycle of the product as well as oversee the product and positioning strategies.

Responsibilities

• Develop and translate product strategy into detailed requirements and prototypes.
• Create buy-in for the product vision internally and with key external partners.
• Scope and prioritise activities based on business and customer impact.
• Work closely with engineering teams to deliver features with quick time-to-market and optimal resources.
• Gain a deep understanding of customer experience, identify and fill product gaps and generate new ideas that grow market share, improve the customer experience, and drive growth.
• Act as a product evangelist to build awareness and understanding of the product.
• Engage with banking partners and clients to enhance the working relationship between these parties and

Multigate.

• Assist with special projects as assigned by your line manager.

Required Skills/ Competencies

• Effective communication skills
• Attention to detail
• Analytical skills
• Product management skills
• Problem-solving skills
• Project management skills
• Research skills
• Strategic thinker with the ability to motivate and drive tactical execution.
• Experience in collaborating with sales, technology, operation, service, risk, compliance and legal teams and command strong influencing skills
• Ability to influence stakeholders with diverse points of view and build alignment
• Strong understanding of product development using Agile / Scrum – Certified Scrum Product Owner a plus
• Has an obsession over product quality, specifically an intuition for good user flows and user experiences
• Has experience building platform and/or API products

Key Requirements

• Minimum of 4 years working experience as a Product Manager or Product Owner
• Experience working in Financial services, Payments, Fintech or other related industries is a must
• Knowledge of SWIFT messaging protocols (MT/MX messages), ISO 20022 standards, and financial messaging systems.
• Experience managing product integration and implementation projects for clients