Product Manager (International Payments)

Location: Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

Company

hirify.global’s Corporate & Investment Banking Group provides corporate banking, investment and transaction banking, and financial market solutions through digital platforms and distribution channels for domestic and MENA clients.

What you will do

• Lead international payments transformation initiatives covering ISO 20022 migration, payment modernization, API enablement, host-to-host connectivity, straight-through processing, workflow automation, and digital channels.
• Act as the subject matter expert for SWIFT, ISO 20022, FIN, FINplus, FileAct, pain, pacs, and camt payment message standards.
• Manage relationships with SWIFT, correspondent banks, clearing systems, regulators, technology partners, and vendors, including connectivity, release management, compliance, and certifications.
• Represent the bank in industry working groups, regulatory forums, market consultations, and payments committees.
• Optimize correspondent banking networks, payment routing, settlement processes, and Treasury integration to improve efficiency, cost, and client service.
• Use customer, commercial, operational, and payment-data insights to improve pricing, fee recovery, service availability, exception management, revenue growth, and cost optimization.

Requirements

• Experience in transaction banking, payments product management, cash management, or payment operations.
• Deep expertise in SWIFT, correspondent banking, cross-border payments, payment schemes, clearing systems, and global payment infrastructures.
• Experience leading payment modernization, automation, process re-engineering, and digital transformation initiatives.
• Ability to read, interpret, analyze, and troubleshoot XML-based ISO 20022 payment messages, including pain, pacs, and camt standards, and identify formatting, validation, mapping, and integration issues.
• Hands-on experience coordinating end-to-end testing across online banking, mobile channels, host-to-host integrations, APIs, SWIFT connectivity, and pain.001 payment flows.
• Ability to identify automation opportunities and use technology to improve efficiency, controls, and customer experience.
• Advanced analytical and data-driven decision-making skills, including payment trend analysis, revenue opportunity identification, pricing optimization, and strategic recommendations.
• Strong stakeholder management, communication, influencing, and commercial awareness skills, including engagement with senior management, regulators, vendors, correspondent banks, Technology, Operations, and business stakeholders.
• Extensive experience delivering complex payment solutions and strategic transformation programs with cross-functional stakeholders.

Culture & Benefits

• Work within a corporate and investment banking environment serving government entities, financial institutions, large corporates, and strategic banking partners.
• Collaborate across Technology, Operations, business functions, regulators, vendors, and international payment networks.
• Role based in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.