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TarabutProduct Manager
Sep. 2024London Area, United KingdomAcquired Vyne Delivering Open Banking A2A payment solutions in the UK and Middle East Key Responsibilities: - Lead the end-to-end delivery of Open Banking A2A payment solutions, from concept to deployment, across the UK and Middle East.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including product managers, engineers, compliance, and business stakeholders to ensure seamless integration of payment systems.
- Manage partnerships with banks, financial institutions, and third-party providers to support Open Banking API integrations.
- Ensure compliance with regional regulations and standards.
- Analyse market trends and customer needs to continuously improve and adapt payment solutions for different regions.
- Provide technical expertise in A2A payment protocols, security standards, and API architectures.
- Drive user adoption by optimising the user experience and ensuring system reliability and scalability.
- Monitor and report on project progress, risks, and performance metrics to stakeholders.
VyneProduct Manager
Jun. 2022 - Sep. 2024London Area, United KingdomAcquired by Tarabut Maintain and enhance a family of products including the core account-to-account payments platform and integrations, the consumer payments journey, the internal and external portals and the automated onboarding journey. Key deliverable: - Led the development of a portal-based reconciliation tool that helped many merchants simplify and optimise their ability to reconcile payments. Later, we developed a reconciliation API to match functionality.
- Led the 0 to 1 development of a no-code payment link product which allowed merchants to take payments without the need for time-consuming integration. When combined with the automated onboarding journey, this off-the-shelf solution enabled us to reduce time to live from an average of 6 months to 2 hours (99.95% decrease in time to live).
- Successful development, documentation and execution of product processes to improve overall efficiency of teams. This included the delivery and planning process, and the prioritisation and roadmapping guide, which resulted in a value driven company roadmap for 2024 across 3 goals Key responsibilities:
- Define the strategy of the product group and the roadmap.
- Lead cross functional team collaboration from engineering squads on a daily basis to business stakeholders on product launch and support. - Lead on the execution and delivery of product initiates.
Checkout.comProduct Manager | FinCrime
Jan. 2021 - Jun. 2022London, England Metropolitan AreaBuild and maintain stable and scalable technology for Financial Crime detection and mitigation, which will remain effective as Checkout grows, onboards new types of client and builds products. Key deliverable:
- 0-1 development of an internal Operations user interface to request and receive additional information that reduced manual effort for the compliance operational team by 90%. Key responsibilities:
- Lead the product discovery process and consumer interviews.
- Define the product requirements documents and user stories.
- Maintain cross functional collaborations on product initiatives.
Standard Bank South AfricaProduct Manager for Value Added Services | Merchant Solutions | Card and Payments
Jan. 2019 - Nov. 2020Johannesburg, Gauteng, South AfricaProduct Manager for an aggregator platform of suppliers and distribution channels for Valued Added Services/Products such as prepaid airtime, data, and electricity. The platform processes an average monthly turnover of R250 million and an average monthly volume of 1.8 million transactions. Key Deliverable: - Grew monthly turnover by 60% in 6 months through market penetration actions
- Doubled the product offering with additional supplier integrations Key responsibilities:
- Closely collaborated with the engineering team on workflow and SCRUM processes. - Conducted and presented data analytics and monthly reporting to the management team.
- Lead product training for sales teams, the call centre and business partners.
- Lead effective relationships and negotiations with vendors and suppliers such as MasterCard, Visa and Verifone.
- Define and executed on go-to-market strategy for new product offerings.
Standard Bank South AfricaJunior Product Manager | Merchant Solutions | Card and Payments
Jan. 2018 - Jan. 2019Johannesburg, Gauteng, South AfricaJoined the bank in the Graduate Program, learning the ropes as a Junior Product Manager in the Merchant Solutions team.
JessLee InvestmentsOwner
Aug. 2015Johannesburg Metropolitan AreaFounder of a residential rental property investment portfolio.
CrawfordSchools South AfricaNetball Coach
Jan. 2013 - Dec. 2016Johannesburg, Gauteng, South AfricaHigh school netball coach and graded umpire - part time job while pursuing my studies.
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