About Thunes
Thunes is the Smart Superhighway to move money around the world. Thunes’ proprietary Direct Global Network allows Members to make payments in real-time in over 130 countries and more than 80 currencies.
Thunes’ network connects directly to over 7 billion mobile wallets and bank accounts worldwide, as well as 15 billion cards via more than 320 different payment methods, such as GCash, M-Pesa, Airtel, MTN, Orange, JazzCash, Easypaisa, AliPay, WeChat Pay and many more.
Thunes’ Direct Global Network differentiates itself through its worldwide reach, in-house SmartX Treasury System and Fortress Compliance Platform, ensuring Members of the network receive unrivaled speed, control, visibility, protection and cost efficiencies when making real-time payments, globally.
Members of Thunes’ Direct Global Network include gig economy giants like Uber and Deliveroo, super-apps like Grab and WeChat, MTOs, fintechs, PSPs and banks.
Headquartered in Singapore, Thunes has offices in 14 locations, including Abidjan, Barcelona, Beijing, Dubai, Hong Kong, Johannesburg, London, Manila, Nairobi, Paris, Riyadh, San Francisco and Shanghai.
For more information, visit: https://www.thunes.com/
Context of the role
Reporting to the SVP of Account Management Europe, the Account Manager will be focused on scaling our relationships with our existing large clients including merchants, PSPs, MTO's, wallets & fintechs. You will be responsible for forming deep relationships with these key accounts in Europe. You will be their trusted advisor for our products and services. Leveraging this relationship, you will provide a world-class customer experience for your accounts, driving revenue growth through cross and upsell opportunities
Responsibilities:
- Act as trusted partner to your clients ensuring account retention, contractual health, performance and maximum satisfaction of clients
- Develop account plans and strategies and execute on them to increase revenue and market share
- Continually drive revenue within accounts through cross and up sell opportunities
- Ensure best-in-class, methodical partner management rooted in KPIs
- Be an advocate for their business, help Thunes to understand their demands/needs where necessary
- Work closely with multiple internal functions (e.g. product, sales, compliance, solution delivery and operations) to improve our product and service
- Ensure excellent communication and internal coordination to roll-out new services taking into factors of market specificity (regulation, competition etc.),
- Full ownership of customer requests, exploring new opportunities to add value
- Ensure all specific reports and records are completed within timeframe, including utilization of CRM tool
- Provide timely feedback to leadership about performance, sales activity, account management status and ongoing strategy
- Initiate and maintain strong working relationship with colleagues and customers to ease communication channels and facilitate resolutions for issues
Skills/Qualifications:
- +3 years experience in B2B Account Management with at least 2 years hands-on partnerships or account management experience working with enterprise merchants and/or financial institutions
- Demonstrable experience and knowledge of working to enable payments acceptance for clients across UK/ EU
- Track record of top commercial performance in a Payments business with proven ability to grow revenue share
- Operationally focused, with an ability to methodically grow a live account, coordinating internal teams using planning, metrics, and organizational structures
- Evidence of expertise in CSM (customer success management) with a metric driven, rigorous and programmatic framework approach
- Excellent negotiation skills to drive commercial value in upsell and cross sell scenarios and contract renewals
- Evidence of taking ownership for client issues and working across multiple teams to create a successful resolution
- Strong decision maker, able to prioritize through competing demands and complex problems
- Ability to manage multiple stakeholders, including compliance, legal, solutions delivery, treasury, and finance
- Driven, flexible, self-motivated, go-getter, able to accept change and with the ability to work at pace in a rapidly growing and changing environment
- Analytical ability to manage complex reporting, pricing, and cost considerations
- Must be fluent in French and English languages..
Package and Benefits
- Great compensation package, including performance commissions
- Private Health insurance for you and your family
- Life insurance
- Mobile allowance
- Ticket Restaurant
- Transport ticket
- Employee wellbeing & support program
- Learning & Development budget
- Relocation package if needed
- Work-life balance (flexibility and hybrid working policy)
- Great offices in the center of Paris (Opera)
- Our team is global, you will work with 40+ different nationalities spread across 5 continents
Sounds like you?
Skills Required
- 3 years experience in B2B Account Management
- 2 years hands-on partnerships or account management experience
- Experience with enterprise merchants and/or financial institutions
- Fluency in French and English languages
What We Do
Thunes is a B2B cross-border payments network for emerging markets. Our global platform provides seamless transfer of funds between payment systems in more than 100 countries and 60 currencies. We enable mobile wallet providers, technology companies, PSPs, money transfer operators and banks to make financial services accessible worldwide. We offer four key payment solutions: •Remittance processing, which fosters worldwide financial inclusion •Mass payouts, which support globalisation and the sharing economy •Virtual Accounts, which help corporates around the world boost their revenue •Business payments, which enable businesses to trade easily across borders Since Thunes was established in 2016, we’ve processed real-time transactions for millions of people across the world. Thunes is headquartered in Singapore with regional offices in London, Shanghai and New York.
