Product Manager - Payments & Finance (m/f/d)

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Bertelsmann is looking for a Product Manager - Payments & Finance in Berlin to own accounting and payments products, align roadmaps with strategy, regulatory needs and operations, and deliver measurable business impact through cross functional collaboration with Finance, Risk, Compliance and Engineering. You will lead discovery, define goals and success metrics, prioritise the backlog, and partner on MVPs and iterative releases that unlock value early. The ideal candidate has 4+ years in fintech or payments product roles, a proven ability to translate complex business and regulatory needs into clear requirements, strong data and stakeholder skills, and English fluency with German a plus. To apply, tailor your CV with quantified outcomes, highlight payments and ledgers experience, and show how you will drive value for Bertelsmann.

We are looking for a

Product Manager - Payments & Finance (m/f/d)

(unlimited, fulltime) Join our team at our location in Berlin – hybrid working conditions available.

In this role you will own and shape our accounting and payments-related products, ensuring they solve the right business problems and deliver measurable value. You will work within the Product organisation, with a strong focus on product strategy, prioritisation and cross-functional alignment, supported by business analysis rather than deep technical system design.
 

What you will do

• Own the product vision and roadmap for accounting and payments-related products, aligning it with company strategy, regulatory needs and operational priorities.
• Lead product discovery to understand customer and business problems, payment and accounting flows, and opportunities to simplify, automate and scale across products and operations.
• Work closely with stakeholders across Finance, Operations, Risk, Compliance and Engineering to align on priorities, scope and expected outcomes.
• Define clear product goals and success metrics, and ensure initiatives are driven by measurable business impact.
• Translate business and customer needs into clear product direction, including well-defined epics, user stories and acceptance criteria.
• Continuously prioritise the product backlog, balancing value, risk, dependencies and delivery capacity.
• Partner with engineering and design to break down complex initiatives into MVPs and iterative releases that deliver value early.
• Drive alignment and clarity across teams by explaining the business context, product intent and trade-offs behind decisions.
• Assess impact and feasibility of proposed changes, particularly those affecting payments, accounting and ledgers, in collaboration with engineering and domain experts.
• Support delivery by leading planning and backlog refinement, ensuring teams are focused on the most valuable outcomes.
• Validate delivered functionality against intended business behaviour and product goals, and use feedback and data to inform next steps.

What you bring

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Finance, Economics or a related field.
• 4+ years of experience as a Product Manager, Product Owner or in a closely related product role within a software or financial services environment.
• Proven experience owning and evolving products that involve complex business processes, ideally in fintech, payments or accounting domains.
• Strong ability to define product strategy, prioritise effectively and communicate a clear product vision to diverse stakeholders.
• Experience working in Agile environments and collaborating closely with engineers, designers and analysts throughout the product lifecycle.
• Ability to translate complex business and regulatory needs into clear, actionable product requirements.
• Strong analytical skills, comfortable using data, reports and KPIs to inform decisions and measure success.
• Experience using product and delivery tools such as Jira or Azure DevOps.
• Experience defining, tracking and iterating on product KPIs in a product-led organisation.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, able to align different perspectives and drive decisions.
• Fluency in English. German language skills are a strong plus, as many stakeholders are German-speaking.
   

Nice to have

• Fluency in one of the following languages: German, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish.
• Experience in payments, finance, accounting or BNPL, for example working with reconciliations, settlements, ledgers or booking logic.