Foreign Exchange Manager jobs in California

Position: Product Manager with Foreign Exchange experience

Location: SFO, CA (Hybrid 3 Days/Week)

Note: 3 Days/week Hybrid

Summary: The role is aligned to the delivery team responsible for planning, development, and delivery of Insurance products for the Benchmarks and Indices business. This is a hands-on Product Manager with Foreign Exchange experience with focus on delivering results on-time, in-full to the expected quality levels.

Job Description

• We are looking for a top-performing FX Product Manager with an innovative mindset to help us build the FX capabilities of tomorrow.
• Reporting to the Head of FX Channels, this person has a proven track record of delivering exceptional products.
• This is a key role within the FX business and will provide strategic direction and execution of our FX capabilities.
• Product Development: includes strategic planning, capability roadmaps, development prioritization, creation of business cases, business needs documentation, product readiness, participation in internal partnership meetings, responding to and remediating findings related to audits, vendor management, regulatory and compliance issues and risk management.
• Oversee strategy and development of a portfolio of FX capabilities, including responsibility for outcomes and providing leadership of teams.
• Lead the development of cross-functional initiatives in support of business objectives.
• Prioritize initiatives and the backlog based on a deep understanding of industry insights, business goals and competitive intelligence.
• Create and execute on a clear, actionable channel roadmap with priorities to deliver optimal results for customers and the business.
• Execute in an agile product development environment.
• Ensure compliance to all required internal processes prior to any external commitments are made or any new initiative is moved to go live phase.
• Product Marketing: includes communication, industry trend tracking, competitive intelligence gathering and regulatory intelligence gathering.
• Competitive analysis e.g., know what competition has in that product set (or plans to develop) and do comparative analysis.
• Customer profiling/targeting refine with increase data/history develop profile of target customers.
• Market research pre-product launch and post-launch to determine market acceptance/viability.
• Leadership: includes building relationships across the enterprise, influencing other teams and representing FX on cross-organizational product development

• Support a culture that emphasizes continuous learning, data analysis, innovation and client focus.
• Evangelize new opportunities, cultivating innovation mindset, sharing strong FX and payments expertise.

Job Responsibilities

• Deep understanding of and a passion for product management.
• Knowledge of payments and confirmations related to foreign exchange transactions, with extensive knowledge related to SWIFT, Hogan DDA, ACH, Fed Wire and foreign currency accounts.
• Familiarity with Application Programming Interface (APIs) and other emerging technology within banks
• Demonstrate leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills.
• Proven track record of building excellent products.
• Proven success achieving objectives requiring a high level of cooperation from people in other parts of the organization.
• Excellent problem solving and analytic capabilities utilized to identify root cause issues/improvement opportunities and designing approaches/programs to address those issues

We can offer you:

• A highly competitive compensation and benefits package
• A multinational organization with 52 offices in 20 countries and the possibility to work abroad.
• Laptop and a mobile phone
• 10 days of paid annual leave (plus sick leave and national holidays)
• Maternity & Paternity leave plans
• A comprehensive insurance plan including medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and long-/short-term disability (plans vary by region)
• Retirement savings plans
• A higher education certification policy
• Commuter benefits (varies by region)
• Extensive training opportunities, focused on skills, substantive knowledge, and personal development.
• On-demand Udemy for Business for all Synechron employees with free access to more than 5000 curated courses.
• Coaching opportunities with experienced colleagues from our Financial Innovation Labs (FinLabs) and Center of Excellences (CoE) groups.
• Cutting edge projects at the world s leading tier-one banks, financial institutions and insurance firms.
• A flat and approachable organization.
• A truly diverse, fun-loving and global work culture.

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