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The Product Manager is a pivotal PayU leadership role, offering a unique opportunity to take part in shaping and driving PayU’s offering. You will play a key role in implementing our long-term strategy, product roadmap, feature set, and market success for our solutions.

Who you are:

• If you are passionate about building groundbreaking products, delivering delightful experiences, understanding needs of customers, execution obsessed, highly analytical, a team player, and are only satisfied when work has an impact …we’d love to hear about it.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Contribute to the platform vision and roadmap
• Deeply understand our customer’s needs and challenges
• Write specifications for new and updated epics and user stories.
• Approve the development results (UAT)
• Document and communicate newly released features to stakeholders
• Align and communicate with internal stakeholders (sales, compliance, legal, product managers, etc)
• Work closely with development team
• Gather feedback from customers, partners and stakeholders
• Good understanding of local payment market – Africa (South Africa, Nigeria, Kenya and ROA)
• Stay up-to-date with industry trends and players.

QUALIFICATION & EXPERIENCE

• Bachelor’s Degree (preferably in IT or Commerce).
• 2-3 years’ experience working as a Product Manager or Business Analyst.
• Payments/Banking/Financial Services experience preferred.
• Experience in Africa – Nigeria, Kenya and South Africa.
• Experience working with Development teams using agile methodology.
• Experience within web, online and ecommerce/payments systems preferred.
• Exposure into the Africa Landscape.

WHAT WE OFFER

• Career progression program
• Wellbeing programs
• Flexible program and hybrid way of working
• Free subscription to an Internal Elearning platform with courses from Udemy, Coursera, and many others
• Truly International Environment with almost 40 different cultures
• An inclusive environment that listens to a diverse range of voices when making decisions.
• A positive, get-things-done workplace
• A dynamic, constantly evolving space (change is par for the course – important you are comfortable with this)
• Ability to learn cutting edge concepts and innovation in an agile start-up environment with a global scale
• A democratic work environment where you can drive your outcomes

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• The Settlement Services Delivery Manager is a crucial role responsible for the smooth implementation and ongoing monitoring of the organization’s settlement services.
• You will act as a central point of contact, bridging the gap between the business and settlement teams to ensure seamless cross-functional delivery. In this role, you will play a key part in driving increased company operational efficiency by optimizing settlement processes.

RESPONSIBILITIES AND KEY ACTIVITIES

• Standardize and automate settlement services for Africa region.
• Ensure coordination and delivery of projects supporting settlement area.
• Measure and enhance PayU’s efficiency on settlement services.
• Implement KPIs, provide their monitoring and drive for their constant improvement.
• Conduct ongoing assessments of the internal control environment.
• Ensure compliance of processes with regulatory bodies.
• Drive process improvements in collaboration with their owners.
• Support any auditing activities and take responsibility of their successful execution.
• Data-driven execution.

QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE

• 5+ years of relevant work experience in settlement and/or financial areas.
• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field (preferably economics or accounting).
• Experience in process shaping activities and optimization.
• Excellent command of written and spoken English.

SKILLS & KNOWLEDGE

• Strong understanding of settlement environment and payments.
• Ability to drive and deliver.
• Attention to details and accuracy.
• Ability to work under pressure.
• Can manage competing workload and relationships effectively.
• High level of self-motivation and determination.
• Excellent change management and communication skills.
• Ability to work with data, understand figures and take actions based on the findings.

BEHAVIOURAL COMPETENCIES

• Ability to communicate effectively, both written and verbal.
• Strong interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to create clarity.
• Integrity.
• Ability to work individually as well as within a team, including project ones.