Position: Senior Product Manager (Technology Consulting, Business Analysis)
Location: Sydney, Australia
WorkStyle: Sydney Hybrid based
Simple Machines. Data Engineered to Life™

Simple Machines is a leading independent boutique technology firm with a global presence, including teams in London, Sydney, San Francisco, and New Zealand. We specialise in creating technology solutions at the intersection of data, AI, machine learning, data engineering, and software engineering. Our mission is to help enterprises, technology companies, and governments better connect with and understand their organisations, their people, their customers, and citizens. We are a team of creative engineers and technologists dedicated to unleashing the potential of data in new and impactful ways. We design and build bespoke data platforms and unique software products, create and deploy intelligent systems, and bring engineering expertise to life by transforming data into actionable insights and tangible outcomes.

About You

We are looking for a consultant-minded individual who is passionate about working closely with clients to solve complex problems and lead them on a journey from discovery to technical implementation. You have a knack for understanding client needs and delivering market-leading solutions and have worked in Technology Consulting | Business Analysis | Software Development

You will love and excel in this role if you:

• Have a strong background in Technology Consulting, played a Senior Manager role within a top-tier consulting company.
• Have a refined understanding of how modern software is built and delivered (tools, methodologies, roles, common challenges etc.)
• A demonstrated knowledge of different methods and tools that help you to perform analysis, testing, product management and delivery in a range of environment
• Know how to effectively communicate information between people at all levels of the business, in written and verbal form
• Have a passion for accruing knowledge, and using that knowledge to continuously improve yourself and the team’s performance
• Personal interest in best practice and trends of the technology industry, with the ability to apply these to your day-to-day work
• A relationship builder by nature, and someone who can thrive in new teams and new situations
• A proactive person who knows what needs to be done, how to approach it, and how to influence others to move things forward
• An ambitious person who is excited about the prospect of joining a small, close-knit ANZ team of experts and helping it to grow

The Exciting Part

Simple Machines is not your average consultancy or software engineering firm. Our team is comprised of inspiring industry leaders in Consulting, Data Engineering, Machine Learning, and Artificial Intelligence. Our projects, for a global client base, are data-focused and drive real change.

About the Role

We are looking for someone to join our close-knit team of experts to help deliver our client engagements as we scale our ANZ business. If you excel in client facing roles, have a deep understanding of how modern software is built and delivered, and have a passion for technology then we’d love to hear from you.

Here’s a brief overview of the role’s responsibilities:

Drive the engagement

• Understand each clients’ unique business needs, the ‘why’ behind each project and develop solutions that will fulfil each clients’ success criteria
• Act as a translator between business teams and technology delivery
• Develop domain expertise unique to each engagement

Feed the engineering team

• Provide high quality written requirements, acceptance criteria, feature overviews, test cases and other artefacts for the team to work from
• Run effective meetings with team and stakeholders

Drive the team’s direction

• Clearly articulate the business needs and work with the tech team to translate these into technical requirements
• Persuade the client and the SM team on what should be done and why

Increase the team’s speed

• Understand and anticipate dependencies in software delivery
• Enable decision making through excellent communication

Assure the team’s focus

• Protect the engineering team from day to day ‘noise’
• Embed and optimise processes to handle our scope of work and new demand

Assure SM’s position with the client

• Build and nurture relationships with clients at all levels
• Help to manage SM’s delivery risk

Hi. We’re OFX, a global provider of online, international payment and expense management services. We solve the complexity of moving money and enable better decisions. Headquartered in Sydney with offices worldwide, we’re a customer-focused business that is all about inspiring customer confidence.

Our focus is to support businesses to move away from costly, manual payment processes and provide both scalable and automated solutions that drastically improve the ability of businesses to support their finance functions with an innovative new approach to global payments, domestic payments and expense management. 

At OFX, you’ll have the opportunity to reach beyond your role and function across disciplines. Make use of your diverse skill set at a business that values your expertise and turn your potential into reality.

Purpose of your role

At OFX, user relationships are a key priority in providing an unparalleled experience to our customers. As an Account Manager, you will be responsible for winning, servicing, retaining and growing a designated portfolio. You will be responsible for achieving new and existing revenue targets whilst ensuring there is minimum level of customer churn across the portfolio.

It has never been a better time to join OFX as we unveil a revolutionary new product, distinguishing us from competitors. In conjunction, you’re able to leverage your relationship-building prowess to deliver top-tier client service, addressing business challenges with our tailored solutions and working closely with your manager to improve the overall service offering. You will proactively identify client needs, aligning our product suite to foster their business growth and provide support to ensure their extensive use of the platform. Your expertise in accounting, payments, and SaaS sales is key to succeeding in the role.

What you do

• Grow and manage an existing portfolio of clients with a focus on increasing revenue and clients, providing best in class expertise and specialist market and product knowledge.
• Pro-actively engage your portfolio to communicate events, provide updates on product improvements, identify use cases for providing further value to these users, generate new referral opportunities for the new business team to expand and reduce churn by becoming a valuable relationship to your clients’ businesses.
• Bring experience in the relationship management of a portfolio to be able to develop a key account plan that manages growth of our top accounts vs general accounts while maintaining the balance to support both effectively.
• Provide responsive and efficient management of all inbound enquires and liaise with support, product and implementation teams to ensure a satisfactory outcome for your clients’ requests while providing user feedback/issues to assist product development and enhance our CVP of the channel.
• Actively engage and work closely with the OFX compliance, marketing, operations, sales and development/engineering teams in pursuit of achieving commercial objectives.
• Strictly adhere to the full suite of OFX credit, risk management and group policies.