Associate Product Manager

Fincent is a new age finance firm whose mission is to bring financial and accounting services into the modern era. We like to think of ourselves as all of the good parts of a startup, without the downsides. We're a tight-knit team of smart, friendly people solving problems together with a shared passion for design, technology and creativity. Fincent stands at the intersection of neo-banking and SaaS and aims to be a complete financial hub for SMBs. We offer an AI-powered finance team with a real-time dashboard to manage all the finance functions for your business on one platform – banking, bookkeeping, yearly taxes, bill pay & invoicing, financial projections & budgeting, reimbursements and more.

What you will do 

• Explore and develop new product ideas through market and user research, competitive analysis, and reverse engineering of existing accounting systems
• Define business and technical requirements for new products and features through clear and precise user stories, use cases, workflows, product specifications, and mock-up designs
• Collaborate with the design team to create a simple, sleek and frictionless user experience
• Work closely with the operations/bookkeeping, engineering and design teams to identify feasible and scalable financial and accounting solutions
• Determine requirements for integrating with external bookkeeping, financial, banking and payment systems (Eg. ERP Next, Quickbooks Online, Stripe, etc.)
• Manage the end-to-end product development process (Includes: discovery, design, spec’ing, developing, testing and launch)
• Create test plans and conduct product testing for product launch
• Oversee the product’s launch and go-live activities  (Includes: Testing, Training, Marketing roll-out)
• Utilize your proficiency in data analysis and customer feedback to continuously iterate and develop products that resolve customer and operational pain points.

What you need 

• 5+ years of relevant experience with strong domain knowledge and solid foundation of bookkeeping, accounting & financial procedures.
• Experience with ERP next, QuickBooks and Stripe
• Inter CA, CFA, ICWA, Management accounting inter / Diploma in IFRS
• Having prior experience working with US based accounting processes and familiarity with US GAAP
• Product management experience developing products and workflows for bookkeeping and accounting processes
• Experience testing bookkeeping and accounting workflows and solutions in ERP next, QBO, or any other accounting or financial tool
• Experience with or a willingness to work with AI tools to research and develop bookkeeping workflows and solutions
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and attention to detail.
• Comfortable working in a tech driven environment, includes working with APIs and having technical discussions with engineering
• Loves solving complex technical issues and is passionate about figuring out why things happen and how they should work
• Has a strong understanding of the product development lifecycle