Senior Product Manager - Payments Control

Amazon UAE; Dubai; On-site; AED 424,080 - 613,800; Full time

Job summary

Amazon UAE in Dubai seeks a Senior Product Manager to lead the payments controllership initiative, shaping strategy, roadmap, and cross‑functional delivery across emerging markets.

You will coordinate engineering, finance, accounting, legal, compliance, risk, and operations to build reliable systems that validate processor fees, automate reconciliation, and prevent leakage, while maintaining regulatory controls.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in a related field.
• 5+ years of experience in product management, program management, or related discipline.
• Proven ownership of product roadmap strategy and definition.
• Experience delivering products from concept through launch and post‑launch improvement.
• Strong analytical and financial judgment with ability to assess business impact.

Responsibilities

• Own the end‑to‑end product strategy, vision, and roadmap for automated payment controllership.
• Coordinate cross‑functional teams to align on priorities and execution.
• Drive multi‑year plans to expand automated reconciliation across processors and markets.
• Develop capabilities to validate processor and network charges against rate cards.
• Build automated reconciliation mechanisms to reduce manual reviews and leakage.

Skills

Product management

Payments controllership

Payment reconciliation

Financial compliance

Product strategy

Roadmap

End-to-end delivery

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Job description

Senior Product Manager - Payments Control (Dubai, United Arab Emirates)

Industry: Financial Services | Function: Product Management | Job Type: Full-time | Experience: 5+ years in product management, program management, or related discipline

Salary: 38,000‑55,000 AED per month (final offer to be confirmed by employer)

EEO Statement: Gender: Any • Candidate Nationality: Any

Overview

Lead the strategy and development of automated payment controllership and compliance capabilities across Amazon’s emerging markets. Own the entire product vision and roadmap while coordinating cross‑functional teams—engineering, finance, accounting, legal, compliance, risk, and operations—to build reliable systems that validate processor fees, automate reconciliation, identify financial leakage, and maintain regulatory controls.

Key Responsibilities

• Own the end‑to‑end product strategy, vision, and roadmap for automated payment controllership.
• Work backwards from finance, accounting, customer, operational, and regulatory requirements when defining product priorities.
• Establish a multi‑year plan for expanding automated reconciliation across processors, markets, fee types, and payment products.
• Serve as the single‑threaded leader responsible for product direction, stakeholder alignment, execution, and measurable outcomes.
• Coordinate engineering, finance, accounting, legal, compliance, risk, and operations teams around a shared product plan.
• Define capabilities that validate processor and network charges against contractual rate cards.
• Expand coverage from partial reconciliation toward transaction‑level validation across nearly all relevant payment fees.
• Develop automated reconciliation mechanisms that reduce dependence on manual reviews and spreadsheets.
• Design automated accrual processes that improve financial accuracy and prevent over‑accrual.
• Identify rate‑card drift, incorrect fee configurations, duplicate charges, missing credits, and remittance failures.
• Build preventive controls that detect payment‑fee issues before they develop into material losses.
• Establish real‑time governance mechanisms that surface financial variances and potential leakage.
• Develop workflows that reduce the time required to investigate and resolve payment discrepancies.
• Monitor service‑level agreement compliance across processors, financial partners, and supported markets.
• Translate changing regulatory, audit, risk, and compliance requirements into clear product requirements.
• Prioritize deliverables according to financial exposure, compliance risk, customer impact, coverage, and technical feasibility.
• Work with legal and compliance teams to ensure product controls meet applicable regulatory standards.
• Partner with accounting teams to improve reconciliation, accrual, audit, and financial close processes.
• Collaborate with finance stakeholders to quantify leakage, recovery opportunities, savings, and product value.
• Work closely with engineering teams to define architecture requirements, data flows, controls, integrations, and delivery milestones.
• Evaluate trade‑offs involving coverage, accuracy, implementation speed, system complexity, and operational risk.
• Define metrics covering reconciliation accuracy, processor coverage, fee‑type coverage, financial impact, compliance outcomes, and resolution time.
• Develop dashboards and review mechanisms that provide leadership with clear visibility into product performance.
• Author PR‑FAQs, strategy documents, business reviews, operational reviews, and executive decision papers.
• Present product strategy, risks, investment requirements, and performance results to senior leadership.
• Drive end‑to‑end product delivery from concept through launch, adoption, and optimization.
• Maintain strong product governance while adapting priorities to changing payment, regulatory, and business conditions.

Ideal Profile

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent recognized qualification.
• At least 5 years of experience in product management, program management, product marketing, business development, technology, or a related discipline.
• Proven experience as a product manager or product owner.
• Demonstrated ownership of product roadmap strategy and definition.
• Experience delivering products from initial concept through launch and post‑launch improvement.
• Strong understanding of product requirements, prioritization, dependencies, and delivery trade‑offs.
• Ability to work with engineering teams on complex technology‑enabled products.
• Strong analytical and financial judgment with the ability to assess material business impact.
• Experience interpreting data and using insights to influence product and leadership decisions.
• Ability to simplify complex financial, contractual, accounting, or regulatory requirements.
• Strong stakeholder‑management skills across technical and non‑technical functions.
• Experience influencing teams and leaders without direct reporting authority.
• Excellent written communication skills with the ability to prepare structured business narratives.
• Confidence presenting strategy, findings, and recommendations to senior leadership.
• Comfortable operating in a regulated and rapidly changing environment.
• Experience in payments, financial controls, reconciliation, accounting technology, compliance, or fintech is advantageous.
• Familiarity with processor fee structures, acquiring, card networks, rate cards, accruals, or transaction‑level data is beneficial.
• Strong ownership, persistence, and attention to detail when resolving ambiguous problems.

Skills Set

• Product management, payments controllership, payment reconciliation, financial compliance, product strategy, product roadmap, end‑to‑end product delivery.
• Transaction‑level validation, processor fee validation, acquirer fee management, card network fees, contracted rate cards.
• Automated reconciliation, automated accruals, over‑accrual prevention, financial leakage detection.
• Rate‑card drift, remittance failure detection, real‑time controls, compliance governance, regulatory requirements.
• Audit readiness, financial risk management, service‑level monitoring, product requirements, product metrics.
• Cross‑functional leadership, engineering collaboration, finance collaboration, accounting systems.
• Legal and compliance coordination, PR‑FAQ writing, strategy documentation, business reviews, senior leadership influence.

Why Join Us

This role offers ownership of a product that protects the accuracy and integrity of payment activity across several high‑growth markets. You will develop systems that strengthen financial control, improve auditability, reduce payment leakage, and increase trust in Amazon’s payment operations. The position provides significant exposure to payments technology, accounting, compliance, financial risk, product development, and senior‑level decision‑making.

About the Company

Amazon is a global technology, e‑commerce, logistics, and digital‑services company processing significant payment volumes across international marketplaces. Its payments teams develop secure, scalable, and compliant systems that support customers, sellers, financial partners, and internal business operations while maintaining high standards of accuracy, control, and trust.