Product Manager (Finance Systems)

takealot.com, a leading South African online retailer, is seeking a highly talented Product Manager (Financial Systems) to join our dynamic team in Cape Town. 

If you have a genuine passion for technology and a drive to continually explore, learn, and enhance your skills, we want you! We are a hyper-growth company looking for smart, innovative, autonomous, and creative individuals to join us. Think you’ve been challenged before? Think again!

Our Impact

Think you’ve been challenged before? Think again!

• Scale: 4 million happy shoppers shop online on takealot.com. Show them what you can do.
• Learn: We work with the best of the best, and then some. Code alongside industry leaders and up-skill in record time. 
• Grow: Expand your career in the fast-growing Takealot Group: takealot.com and Mr D. We like to promote from within: Here’s your chance. 

Reporting Structure 

This position reports directly to the Product Lead. 

Your Mission 

You will oversee the execution of large organisational goals from concept to implementation by coordinating activities across multiple cross-divisional teams.

Key Responsibilities:

• Strategic Collaboration: Work with business stakeholders to identify key business needs, market trends, and opportunities to inform the product vision and contribute to definition of the product strategy. 
• Roadmap Development: Develop and execute the product roadmap for the Finance product vertical, collaborating with cross-functional teams to define product requirements, features, and priorities.
• Product Development: Lead product development and delivery, ensuring timely and high-quality output in collaboration with product, engineering, design, and QA teams.
• Data-Driven Decisions: Determine necessary data for informed decision-making, gather quantitative and qualitative data to formulate product requirements.
• Design Consistency: Ensure consistency of design patterns across your product portfolio.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Suggest solutions to stakeholder challenges, validate with metrics, and maintain clear communication.
• Customer Experience: Finalise the customer experience for features in collaboration with design resources.
• Technical Collaboration: Engage with technical teams to document non-functional requirements and contribute to technical design decisions.
• KPI Alignment: Influence and align technical KPIs with business KPIs.
• Stakeholder Management: Take ownership of stakeholder relationships, project prioritisation, and roadmap status communications. Take responsibility for discussions and negotiations with 3rd party vendors/partners such as banks, payment service providers and accounting software providers.

Attributes Required:

• Solutions-oriented, can-do attitude with high energy.
• Strong analytical and critical thinking, leveraging data to inform decisions.
• Ability to identify improvement areas in current processes.
• Passion for tackling ambiguous, complex problems with innovative, high-quality solutions.
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to coordinate effectively with a variety of stakeholders (BI, CFO, AP clerk, 3rd party vendors).

Qualifications & Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree or Advanced Diploma in a relevant field, or equivalent industry experience.
• Knowledge of financial principles across multiple streams: AR, AP, Revenue, Inventory. 
• SQL skills in order to investigate data discrepancies across different systems and database tables.
• Demonstrable experience as a Product Manager or similar role, ideally within an ecommerce or data-centric organisation.
• Experience leading cross-functional teams, collaborating with engineering, design, and QA teams to deliver high-quality software products.
• Experience in owning technology products.
• Proven ability to influence senior leadership through data-driven insights.

Let’s talk about life @ Takealot Group

• The power is in your hands: We offer a market-related, Total Remuneration Package that allows full flexibility according to your needs. Go on, be the master of your own destiny.
• No doors: We aren’t fans of stuffy offices or siloed work environments. See someone you like? High five, collab and make something great.
• Remote working: Love water cooler chats and working from home? Takealot.com offers a hybrid working model for the best of both worlds.
• Mentorship programme: We aren’t kidding when we say the people with the best people win. Now’s your chance to be one of the best, by learning from the best.
• Naspers Tech Community & Online Learning: Share ideas and grow with global industry leaders who are all just a Slack message away. Love to learn? Up-skill with free access to courses on MyAcademy, Udacity, Coursera, and more.
• Good times: Get to know the other extraordinary minds at takealot.com during regular social events and out-of-office activities (think hikes, think mini golf, think good times).
• Staff discount. Millions of products across 28 departments. What more could you ask for?
• Birthday leave: Cake Day all the way. Enjoy your day off - you deserve it. 
• Right tools, right job: We work on Mac, but whether you prefer two monitors or one. You’ll work on the latest tech, with the latest tech.
• Help when you need it most: Confidential counseling, legal support, and financial guidance, for free, anytime, anywhere. 
• Tech stack (for days): Angular, Scala, Kotlin, Google Cloud, Kafka, Redis, Kubernetes and all things machine learning. If you build it, they will come.
• Free parking: No more 5km fun runs to your desk (unless you want to). 

If you meet the above you are an Extraordinary Mind so come and join us and show millions of shoppers what you can do!  

Takealot is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We encourage applicants from previously disadvantaged groups and people with disabilities, to apply.