Associate Product Manager for SwiftRef, Swift
Global payments network
Posted today
Global payments network
1001+ employees
Posted today
1001+ employees
Company mission
To make international transactions instant, frictionless and interoperable.
Role
Who you are
- Minimum 5 years of Product Management experience or Payment Operations experience
- Educated to degree level or equivalent professional experience
- Direct experience working with SwiftRef data or demonstrate familiarity with payment reference data in general. For example, SSIs or regulatory payment purpose codes
- Knowledge of the different Payment Market Infrastructures and Payment Operators
- Experience in working on cross-border payments, including familiarity with ‘Currency Guides’ is a plus
- Collect and process business requirements, from internal stakeholders and customers
- Write supporting documentation, like functional specifications or test/use cases
- Liaise with Support on customer queries and support cases. Must be a problem solver. Must have the ability to proactively identify and resolve issues, including unique, complex problems. This includes the ability to prioritise effectively
- A team player with strong interpersonal skills, who can collaborate effectively with regional teams
- Experience with Agile Tools (JIRA, Confluence, BitBucket) and visualisation tools such as Tableau, Microstrategy and Excel are an advantage
What the job involves
- Swift seeks to reduce friction and make cross-border payments more predictable – giving more confidence over if (and when) a payment will reach its destination
- The SwiftRef product is a suite of data-sets and delivery channels which allow banks to populate accurate reference data as part of their payment preparation process
- The role is for a Product Manager in the SwiftRef product development team
- Understanding customer needs, capturing feedback, consolidating requirements, and translating them into requirements for our IT teams
- Work with the SwiftRef Product Owner to define and maintain product roadmaps, using agile tools and methodologies
- Performing thorough market and competitive analysis on the payments and financial reference data landscapes
Salary benchmarks
Our take
SWIFT was founded in 1973 to serve as the bedrock of the international payments system. A cooperative society which is owned by its member financial institutions, it is a vital piece of the global financial infrastructure, securely transmitting payment instructions between over 11,000 institutions in almost every country. SWIFT handles half of all international transactions, on average 40 million every day.
SWIFT's only direct competition in the traditional cross-border payments sector are bodies such as China's CIPS and Russia's SFMS. Yet, lacking the trust and membership of SWIFT these are unlikely to make serious inroads in the international payments sector.
In recent years the competitive landscape for international transfers has been disrupted by the large-scale uptake of cryptocurrency. SWIFT has not been immune, facing competition from high-speed blockchain payment networks such as Ripple. However SWIFT has moved quickly to adapt, introducing SWIFT Global Payments Innovation (gpi) to increase the speed of transactions to nearly that of its competitors but with greatly enhanced visibility. It is also researching blockchain technologies, partnering with companies like Chainlink to trial its own cross-chain protocols that will allow it to continue to thrive in the new financial landscape.
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Company benefits
- We put you in control of career
- We give you a competitive package
- We help you perform at your best
- We help you make a difference
- We give you the freedom to be yourself
Company values
- Ethics
- Integrity
- Trust
Company HQ
La Hulpe, Wallonia
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Leadership
Javier Perez-Tasso
(CEO, not founder)Has held numerous roles at SWIFT, becoming CEO in 2019. Prior to this, was Head of Product Manager, CMO and Chief Executive of the Americas and UK Region.
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