Financial Services Manager

🏢 Keetab
📍 Saudi ArabiaFull-timeOn-site
📅 Posted: 2d ago🔄 Updated: 2d ago
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The Financial Services Manager will own the view of the Saudi market across payments, fintech, and financial-service models, turning insights into actionable recommendations. Responsibilities include identifying consumer and merchant needs, evaluating new opportunities, developing business cases, and working with product and technology teams to translate local requirements into solutions. The role involves identifying, engaging, and managing ecosystem partners, leading cross-functional projects from research to post-launch review, and owning performance tracking. Improving customer journeys, internal processes, and ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements are key. The position acts as a bridge between local market reality and international/headquarters teams. Requirements include a Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Economics, or Engineering, with 3-6 years of experience in payments, fintech, digital banking, financial services, product operations, strategy, or business development. Specific experience in Saudi Arabia's financial ecosystem and knowledge of the SAMA regulatory framework are essential. Familiarity with digital payment products, financial-product integrations, and partnership models is needed. Experience with product launches and cross-functional projects is crucial. Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, and stakeholder management skills are required, along with fluency in English and Arabic. Experience in embedded finance, consumer-facing financial products, or a marketplace/platform/super-app environment is advantageous. Saudi nationals are strongly encouraged to apply.
Required Skills
Finance, Legal & Governance
Digital PaymentsRegulatory Frameworks
Soft Skills & Professional Competencies
Problem Solving
Other
Payments fintechDigital BankingProduct launchesFinancial ServicesPartnership modelsCross-functional projectsProduct OperationsFinancial-product integrations
Business, Sales & Management
Business DevelopmentBrand Strategy
🎁 Benefits & Perks
Broad exposure across strategy, product development, partnerships and operations in a role. Work with a diverse international team and with leading participants in Saudi Arabia's financial-services ecosystem.
Requirements
Bachelor's degree or above in Business, Finance, Economics, Engineering or related discipline with 3-6 years of relevant experience in payments, fintech, digital banking, financial services, product operations, strategy or business development. Must have relevant experience in Saudi Arabia and a strong understanding of the local payments and financial-services ecosystem, including working knowledge of the SAMA regulatory framework. Familiarity with digital payment products, financial-product integrations, and partnership models is required. Experience supporting product launches or cross-functional projects is essential. Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, and stakeholder-management skills are necessary. Fluent English and Arabic are required.
Description
Job Responsibilities1. Own our view of the Saudi market across payments, fintech and emerging financial-service models — providers, product structures, pricing, market share, and regulatory and industry developments — and turn it into insight and recommendations the business can act on.2. Identify consumer and merchant needs, evaluate new payment and financial-service opportunities, and develop the business case, operating model and implementation plan for those we take forward.3. Work with internal product and technology teams to translate local market requirements into practical product solutions.4. Identify, engage and manage ecosystem partners including banks, financial institutions, payment service providers, card networks and fintech companies — leading evaluation and commercial discussions through to a workable cooperation model.5. Own cross-functional projects end to end, from initial research and solution design through pilot implementation to post-launch review.6. Own performance tracking across user adoption, conversion, transaction volume, cost and return on investment, and act on what the data shows.7. Improve customer journeys, internal processes and standard operating procedures, including reconciliation routines and the handling of exception cases.8. Work with legal, compliance and risk so that every service is designed against the applicable regulatory requirements from the outset rather than retrofitted.9. Act as a bridge to our international and headquarters teams, translating local market reality into terms they can act on and platform capability into what is workable in the Kingdom.Job Requirements1. Bachelor's degree or above in Business, Finance, Economics, Engineering or a related discipline.2. Three to six years of relevant experience in payments, fintech, digital banking, financial services, product operations, strategy or business development.3. Relevant experience in Saudi Arabia and a strong understanding of the local payments and financial-services ecosystem.4. Working knowledge of the SAMA regulatory framework: what requires a licence, what the approval pathway looks like, and realistic timelines.5. Familiarity with digital payment products, financial-product integrations, and partnership models involving regulated financial institutions.6. Experience supporting product launches or cross-functional projects involving product, technology, operations and commercial teams.7. Strong analytical and problem-solving skills — able to build a commercial model, defend the assumptions behind it, and explain it to a non-specialist audience.8. Strong communication and stakeholder-management skills, with the ability to work effectively across local and international teams.9. Fluent written and spoken English and Arabic.10. Experience in embedded finance, consumer-facing financial products, or a marketplace, platform or super-app environment is an advantage.11. Saudi nationals are strongly encouraged to apply.Job Highlights1. Participate in the early-stage planning and implementation of new financial-service initiatives — you will shape what gets built, not inherit someone else's roadmap.2. Broad exposure across strategy, product development, partnerships and operations in a role.3. Work with a diverse international team and with leading participants in Saudi Arabia's financial-services ecosystem
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