Technical Product Manager - Banking Core (Infrastructure)

Company: Adyen
Location: Chicago
Posted on: May 3, 2025

Job Description:

Adyen is the financial technology platform of choice for leading companies. By providing end-to-end payments capabilities, data-driven insights, and financial products in a single global solution, Adyen helps businesses achieve their ambitions faster. With offices around the world, Adyen works with the likes of Facebook, Uber, H&M, eBay, and Microsoft. To maintain our momentum, we need people to join us in finding new ways of solving our unique challenges - people like you.We are looking for a Senior Product Manager to join the Accounting group at Adyen. This group is responsible for building and maintaining the accounting software that powers Adyen's payments and banking operations. The team ensures the accurate tracking of money movement, maintains reconciliation integrity, and provides the financial foundation for Adyen's global transactions.In this role, you will lead the development of scalable, resilient, and high-performance accounting systems that support billions in transaction volume. You will work closely with Engineering, Finance, Treasury, and Risk teams to improve journal processing, reconciliation workflows, and financial observability.This is a high-impact role with long-term strategic implications, as the Accounting group is undergoing a structural evolution to better serve Adyen's growing financial operations. The ideal candidate is data-driven, execution-focused, and comfortable leading complex, cross-functional initiatives.What You'll Do

• Own and drive the evolution of Adyen's accounting software, ensuring it meets the needs of payments, banking, and financial reconciliation.
• Define and prioritize initiatives that improve journal processing, batch optimization, and ledger scalability.
• Partner with Finance, Treasury, and Risk teams to ensure accurate financial data management and compliance.
• Lead efforts to improve real-time fund monitoring, anomaly detection, and reconciliation accuracy.
• Work with engineers to build robust APIs for journal booking, reporting, and reconciliation workflows to eliminate direct database dependencies.
• Drive a data governance strategy, ensuring high data integrity, accuracy, and consistency across accounting workstreams.
• Influence the long-term scalability and infrastructure strategy to handle increasing transaction volumes efficiently.What You Bring
  • 5+ years of experience as a Product Manager, preferably in fintech, enterprise financial software, or accounting systems.
  • Strong understanding of accounting principles, double-entry bookkeeping, and financial reconciliation processes.
  • Experience working with high-scale financial data systems and collaborating with Finance, Treasury, or Risk teams.
  • Technical fluency - comfortable working with Engineering to build APIs, optimize batch processing, and scale financial infrastructure.
  • Data-driven decision-making skills - ability to analyze complex financial data and translate insights into product improvements.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills - able to articulate complex financial and technical concepts clearly.Ideal experience
    • Experience with ledger systems, financial observability tools, and data governance frameworks.
    • Understanding of OLTP/OLAP architectures, batch processing, and real-time reconciliation workflows.
    • Prior experience in building internal financial tooling or working with regulatory financial data.
    • CPA or CFA certification or experience in financial reporting, though not required.Our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion commitmentsOur unique approach is a product of our diverse perspectives. This diversity of backgrounds and cultures is essential in helping us maintain our momentum. Our business and technical challenges are unique, and we need as many different voices as possible to join us in solving them - voices like yours. No matter who you are or where you're from, we welcome you to be your true self at Adyen.Studies show that women and members of underrepresented communities apply for jobs only if they meet 100% of the qualifications. Does this sound like you? If so, Adyen encourages you to reconsider and apply. We look forward to your application!What's next?Ensuring a smooth and enjoyable candidate experience is critical for us. We aim to get back to you regarding your application within 5 business days. Our interview process tends to take about 4 weeks to complete, but may fluctuate depending on the role.This role is based out of our Chicago office. We are an office-first company and value in-person collaboration; we do not offer remote-only roles.No one only manages a search bar or a small feature. At Adyen, you'll see each solution through the entire lifecycle, from conception to implementation to iteration. If you're ready to think about the entire solution, then Adyen is right for you.
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