Program Manager

World Aquatics; Paris; Sur place; EUR 70 000 - 90 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

World Aquatics in Paris is seeking a Program Manager to lead high-value improvement workstreams across Lending, Savings, and Invoice Finance. Reporting to the Chief Product Officer, the successful candidate will navigate resource constraints, manage program delivery, and maintain program governance using a hybrid waterfall-agile approach. Applicants should have 5+ years in financial services, experience in launching platforms internationally, and expertise in AGILE methodologies. Strong stakeholder management and excellent communication skills are essential in this role.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in the financial services industry, ideally with expertise in the SME market.
• Experience launching new platforms across multiple countries.
• Demonstrable experience leading organizational change.
• Experience working in AGILE teams.

Responsabilités

• Own program roadmap and delivery plan, synchronising workstreams.
• Identify potential delivery risks and drive resolution.
• Maintain a hybrid waterfall-agile framework to track projects.
• Ensure business objectives translate into achievable work packages.
• Track program health and ensure compliance with regulations.
• Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders.
• Manage executive stakeholder expectations regarding program progress.

Connaissances

Stakeholder management

AGILE methodologies

Communication excellence

Problem-solving

Formation

Experience dependent

Description du poste

As we grow our proposition, we are seeking a Program Manager to orchestrate the delivery of high-value improvement workstreams across Lending, Savings, and Invoice Finance. Reporting to the Chief Product Officer, you will resolve internal resource constraints and manage a hybrid delivery model to ensure strategic milestones are met. Your role is to act as the central "traffic controller," tracking program outcomes and monitoring operational readiness to ensure a seamless transition from build to launch.

Core Responsibilities

• Owns the overarching program roadmap and delivery plan, synchronising workstreams to ensure alignment with the Chief Product Officer’s strategic goals;
• Understands resource constraints, internal bottlenecks, and business context. Identifies potential delivery risks and drives resolution to ensure workstreams remain on track;
• Owns the program-level governance, maintaining a hybrid waterfall-agile framework to track milestones, dependencies, and budgets across all active projects;
• Works closely with Product Managers and technical leads to ensure high-level business objectives translate into achievable delivery and manageable work packages;
• Defines, tracks, and reports on program health, tracks workstream delivery of business value and adheres to the bank's internal risk and compliance standards;
• Effective collaboration with cross-functional stakeholders (Risk, Legal, Finance, and IT);
• Reviews operational readiness and program milestones to ensure all delivery criteria and regulatory requirements are met before a product or feature is transitioned to live;
• Manages executive stakeholder expectations, providing the CPO and board with transparent communication regarding program progress, budget tracking, and resource hotspots.

Profile required

Essential Experience

• 5+ years in the financial services industry in Europe, ideally with expertise in the SME market;
• Experience of launching new platforms across multiple countries;
• Demonstrable experience of leading organizational change;
• Has worked in AGILE teams and organizations.

Technical Skills

• Strong stakeholder management across multiple complex relationships;
• Highly familiar with AGILE methodologies.

Core Competencies

• Stakeholder management - Ability to build strong relationships;
• Entrepreneurial spirit - Thrives in startup/scale-up environments with ambiguity and limited resources;
• Self-starter - Takes initiative, manages priorities independently, and drives projects to completion;
• Communication excellence - Outstanding written and verbal communication skills in either French, Dutch or Spanish with additional European languages highly valued;
• Creative problem-solving & an innovative approach to finding solutions.

Education

• Experience dependent.

Personal Attributes

• Passionate about fintech innovation and SME financing;
• Comfortable with regulated financial services environment;
• Results-oriented with strong attention to detail;
• Adaptable and resilient in fast-paced, evolving organization;
• Team player who embodies RiverBank's values of integrity, excellence, and collaboration.

Company description

RiverBank is one of Luxembourg's fastest growing financial services companies. We are a client focused corporate lender, dedicated to funding SMEs across Europe, with an initial focus in the Netherlands, Luxembourg, France and Spain. We have ambitious plans to grow, at pace, to support thousands of SMEs and medium size corporations to invest in and build their businesses.

We are recruiting people who are excited to build a bank on a mission to make a difference to small and medium businesses across Europe, who can help us continue to build momentum, bring customers and help shape the pan-European SME bank of the future. We want people who are passionate about building relationships with clients and able to market lending solutions that will work for all stakeholders.

RiverBank is an equal opportunities employer. We work to provide a supportive and inclusive environment where all individuals can maximise their full potential. Our skilled and creative workforce is comprised of individuals drawn from a broad cross section of the communities in which we operate and who reflect a variety of backgrounds, talents, perspectives and experiences. Our strong commitment to a culture of inclusion is evident through our constant focus on recruiting, developing and advancing individuals based on their skills and talents.