Strategic Sales Executive, Financial Institutions

Kyriba; Greater London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A global fintech leader is seeking a Strategic Sales Executive to engage with financial institutions and drive account strategies. You will develop commercial relationships and work on translating client needs into effective solutions. The ideal candidate has experience in financial services and a proven track record managing strategic accounts. This role emphasizes strong commercial acumen and the ability to manage full sales cycles, supporting the mission of enhancing liquidity performance for clients.

Benefits

Comprehensive compensation package

Health, welfare and wellbeing benefits

Qualifications

• Experience in financial services or SaaS working with large global banks.
• Familiarity with managing strategic accounts with Tier-1 institutions.
• Ability to own revenue targets and manage complex deal cycles.

Responsibilities

• Develop commercial relationships for your portfolio of accounts.
• Drive overall strategy for client/account acquisition.
• Translate client needs into Kyriba solutions.

Skills

Experience in financial services, SaaS, or fintech

Proven track record managing strategic/global accounts

Experience managing full sales cycles

Strong commercial acumen

Executive presence

Collaborative team player

Job description

Dream Big. Go Beyond. Be Unstoppable.

About Us

Kyriba is a global fintech leader empowering CFOs and finance teams with cloud-based treasury, payments, and risk management solutions. We serve 3,000+ customers worldwide, managing $15 trillion in payments annually and helping businesses optimize liquidity performance across the enterprise.

We're on a mission to become the most sought-after cloud technology company globally. We think big, innovate relentlessly, and challenge the status quo every day. If you are a problem-solver who’s ready to push boundaries and achieve more than you thought possible—you'll find an exceptional career within an extraordinary business.

About the role

The Strategic Sales Executive, Financial Institutions, engages with customers at banks (primarily within global transaction banks, corporate and investment banks, global trade banks, and commercial banks) to sell the Kyriba platform. We enable our clients to more seamlessly connect with their customers and provide our enterprise-grade liquidity performance technology as an embedded financial product within the bank.

What you’ll do

• Develop the commercial relationship for your portfolio of accounts.

• Develop and drive the overall strategy for client/account acquisition within your assigned account list.

• Translate FI and end-client needs into Kyriba solutions and commercial constructs (trade products, cash modules via white-label/embedded finance).

• Build and maintain executive and senior stakeholder relationships across Coverage, Transaction, Trade, Investment Banks and their Technology and Product contemporaries.

• Own ACV/CARR, pipeline and forecast.

• Maintain accurate forecasting in with disciplined pipeline management and opportunity progression.

What you bring

• Experience in financial services, SaaS, or fintech working with large global banks or FI’s.

• Proven track record of managing strategic/global accounts or partnerships with Tier-1 institutions (transaction banking, trade, markets, or treasury-adjacent).

• Experience managing full sales cycles from prospecting through contract negotiation and close as well as renewal cycles.

• Strong commercial acumen with experience owning revenue targets, pipeline, and complex deal cycles.

• Executive presence and presentation ability.

• A collaborative team player.

Preferred

• Direct experience working with or for a Tier-1 global transaction bank.

• Experience in a high-growth SaaS or platform environment with FI partnerships or channels.

• Global exposure across EMEA, NORAM, and/or APAC; demonstrated ability to work across time zones and cultures.

Our Values Guide Everything We Do

• Think Big & Constantly Innovate: We have the confidence to think big, embrace change, challenge the status quo, and continuously evolve - incorporating new technologies and driving industry progress.

• Put our Customers’ Needs First: We are passionate about delivering the highest value for our customers and supporting them with end-to-end care throughout their journey with us.

• Act with Integrity: Integrity is at the heart of everything we do. We take personal responsibility for our actions, own our decisions, and honour each other’s contributions. We empower each other through honesty, respect, trust and transparency.

• Work as One Team: We are driven by our common goals and share in each other’s successes and failures, learning and working together as a team where everyone can bring their best selves.

• Strive for Excellence while Having Fun: We enjoy tackling new challenges together, and revel in continuous improvement as we deliver, with ultimate professionalism, the very best for our customers, while exceeding our own expectations.

Kyriba offers a comprehensive compensation package, including a range of health, welfare and wellbeing benefits designed to support both your professional and personal life.

Kyriba believes that everyone has the ability to make an impact, and we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer committed to providing employment opportunity regardless of sex, race, creed, color, gender, religion, marital status, domestic partner status, age, national origin or ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, sexual orientation, pregnancy, military or veteran status, citizenship, and genetic information.

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