Senior Product Manager - Expense Core

Overview

Job Description

Responsibilities

• - Bring deep subject-matter expertise in accounting, with a strong focus on payment transaction records, reconciliation flows, and financial data management.
• - Understand API fundamentals - particularly the requirements for exposing APIs externally - and ensure the platform enables seamless integrations for customers and partners.
• - Incorporate compliance and regulatory considerations relevant to the Accounting Platform into product strategy, ensuring all decisions align with required standards.
• - Coordinate cross-functional context gathering, working closely with Finance, Legal, and other Product teams to fully understand the scope of upcoming work.
• - Act as the primary communication bridge between the Expense Core team and the wider business.
• - Own the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for the Expense Core team, ensuring clear direction and alignment with broader company goals.
• - Manage the product backlog, including detailed refinement and prioritisation of initiatives, ensuring alignment with long-term objectives and business impact.
• - Act as a product-side reviewer for technical changes, providing a sanity check on proposed engineering work, identifying downstream implications, and helping the team think through edge cases to prevent incidents.
• - Partner with the Engineering Manager to coordinate and prioritise the high volume of inbound requests from internal teams, ensuring clarity and efficient execution.
• - Collaborate closely with Engineering Leads to translate long-term strategy into concrete deliverables and objectives.
• - Drive execution through roadmap planning, sprint facilitation, and ongoing delivery oversight.

Required Skills

• - Demonstrated experience in a Product Management role focusing on core financial, accounting, or transactional platforms.
• - Deep subject matter expertise in accounting principles, particularly related to payment processing, transaction records, and financial reconciliation.
• - Strong practical understanding of API design, documentation, and externalisation.
• - Proven ability to work with legal and compliance teams to translate regulatory requirements into technical specifications.
• - A track record of making and validating impact hypotheses, translating complex platform work into tangible value for the business.
• - Comfortable owning the product strategy for a technical platform team.
• - Experience leading discovery, gathering user requirements, and translating them into user stories.
• - Worked with product-engineering teams using Agile principles.

Benefits

• - Your own Pleo card (no more out-of-pocket spending!)
• - Lunch is on us for your work days - enjoy catered meals or receive a lunch allowance based on your local office 🍜
• - Comprehensive private healthcare - depending on your location, coverage options include Vitality, Alan or Médis
• - We offer 25 days of holiday + your public holidays
• - For our Team, we offer both hybrid and fully remote working options
• - Option to purchase 5 additional days of holiday through a salary sacrifice
• - We use MyndUp to give our employees access to free mental health and well-being support with great success so far ❤️‍🩹
• - Paid parental leave - we want to make sure that we're supportive of families and help you feel that you don't have to compromise your family due to work 👶