Strategy, Partners & Relations Manager (FinTech/B2B Payments)

The POSITION | About YOU:

We are looking for a Strategy, Partners & Relations Manager (minimum 5 years' experience) to manage strategic topics and align them with company goals, particularly for our LYNKS bank & account management platform and other product lines. The role involves building relations with institutions and industry bodies, contributing to working groups, and overseeing partnerships for feature supply and product distribution. You will conduct potential analysis and competition benchmarking, centralising payments industry expertise to support strategic initiatives. Additionally, you will contribute to managing partnerships, onboarding partner banks, maintaining relations with key institutions, and analysing and monitoring relevant regulatory evolutions with a business focus to identify opportunities and integrate them into the product strategy.

The COMPANY | About US:

Finologee (www.finologee.com) is one of Luxembourg’s leading digital finance platform operators. The company facilitates the financial industry’s quest for optimisation and innovation with its compliant platforms and APIs for bank compliance (PSD2 for Banks & CEDRS), mobile payments and telecom routing (Digicash & Mpulse), professional payments (LYNKS) and KYC/AML (KYC Manager & Digital Onboarding). Finologee serves more than 100 banks and institutions, handling 25 million transactions a year on their behalf. Placing user experience, technology and compliance at the core of the business, Finologee’s founders have been blazing a trail for FinTech ‘made in Luxembourg’ since 2006. With a staff of 40, the company is ISO 27001 certified and is operating as a regulated financial services professional under a ‘Support PFS’ licence granted by the Ministry of Finance. More about what it means to work at Finologee: http://jobs.finologee.com

With us you will handle and focus on…

• Strategy Leadership: Oversee strategic topics and ensure alignment with company goals, particularly for the LYNKS bank & account management platform and other product lines.
• Relations with Institutions and Industry Bodies: Build and maintain relations with institutions and industry bodies; contribute to working groups and committees.
• Partnerships Management: Oversee partnerships for feature supply and product distribution, ensuring seamless integration and collaboration with suppliers and distribution partners to enhance product offerings and market reach.
• Analysis and Payments Expertise: Conduct potential analysis and competition benchmarking; centralise and manage expertise in the payments industry to support strategic initiatives and improve product offerings.
• Partnerships and Regulatory Analysis: Contribute to managing partnerships with product, feature, and distribution partners, onboarding and managing partner banks, and maintaining relations with key institutions. Analyse and monitor relevant regulatory evolutions with a business focus to identify opportunities and integrate them into the product strategy.

What we expect from you…

• You hold a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree
• 5+ years of relevant experience in a role where you were involved in business and/or product strategy, ideally in professional payments, for a SaaS product and/or in the Luxembourg financial industry
• Experience in communicating with banks and financial industry stakeholders, understanding their perspectives, needs and goals would be an advantage
• Languages: (Very) good command of English with solid writing skills is a must, French would be an asset, and so would be German or Luxembourgish
• Desire to work in a fast-paced innovation-driven company, working with the company’s founders, with a genuine accountability for tasks and projects

In return you will get…

• An exciting and interesting role in Luxembourg’s vibrant Fintech scene with the freedom to be creative and to be responsible for the success of the projects from the start
• The opportunity to become a part of one of the prime FinTech teams in Luxembourg, with highly-skilled industry experts, led by entrepreneurs that have been shaping successful digital finance products and building ecosystems for more than 20 years
• An attractive salary package that matches with your role and responsibilities
• Flexible working hours – the position is on-site to guarantee the team dynamics, interaction and agility
• The opportunity to be part of a multicultural and startup-minded team
• A position where you will play an active role in a variety of steps and contexts of digital product building for the financial industry, from the concept to delivery and operations, where you can truly make a difference
• A nice place to work: spacious and modern offices located in the Leudelange business district, close to Luxembourg-City with easy access by bus or car

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