Senior Product Manager - City Of London - Spendesk

Description

Senior Product Manager, Accounting

We're looking for a Senior Product Manager, Accounting to lead a cross‑functional squad focused on building powerful, seamless, and scalable pre‑bookkeeping experiences for finance teams. This role sits at the critical intersection of product, finance, and operations - where every decision has the potential to amplify the impact of accountants by removing blockers, reducing manual tasks, and accelerating time-to-close.

You'll own the Accounting product, which allows Accountants to prepare their transactions for bookkeeping accurately and efficiently, including AI bookkeeping features, advanced accounting rules and fraud detection flows. Your goal? To make it possible for our customers to process thousands of transactions with confidence, speed, and accuracy — no bottlenecks, no busywork.

What You'll Do

• Define and drive product strategy in the accounting domain, ensuring it ladders up to business goals and customer value.
• Partner closely with finance teams, product designers, and engineers to understand the end‑to‑end accounting journey and solve for real‑world complexity.
• Own the roadmap and prioritisation across features like AI receipt collection agents and advanced accounting rules configuration.
• Ensure the scalability and reliability of accounting workflows as Spendesk serves larger and more complex customers.
• Define and track product success metrics that reflect improvements in automation, processing speed, and accounting accuracy.
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders (Sales, Success, Support) to capture feedback and maximise product adoption.
• Support go‑to‑market teams with clear documentation and impactful product launches.
• Stay ahead of the curve on accounting best practices, ecosystem tools (ERPs, APIs, integrations), and regulatory changes that affect bookkeeping.

What We're Looking For

• 5+ years of product management experience, ideally within B2B SaaS or fintech
• Deep curiosity for (or hands‑on experience with) accounting processes, finance operations, or ERP systems.
• Ability to understand and structure complex data models, workflows, and backend systems — and turn them into intuitive, high‑leverage products.
• Strong analytical mindset — you can balance user feedback with data insights to inform priorities and trade‑offs.
• Proven track record of shipping features that streamline workflows and improve productivity for operational or technical users.
• Excellent communication and storytelling skills — you bring clarity to ambiguity and alignment to complexity.

Why Join Us

• Shape the future of spend and finance operations for thousands of businesses across Europe.
• Work on high‑impact problems in a domain that's traditionally underserved by modern product thinking.
• Join a culture that values autonomy, trust, and shipping fast — while never losing sight of quality.
• Help us supercharge the accountants who power modern businesses.

Benefits

• Flexible on‑site and remote policy
• Fully covered Oyster card for traveling to and from our new office (up to £250 monthly depending on location
• £45 monthly wellness allowance, accruable, to be used on whatever wellness means to you - through the Ben platform
• Vitality private health insurance (for you and your family/partner)
• Bupa private dental care
• Access to for emotional and mental health wellbeing
• Pension scheme (on salary sacrifice): 5% employee / 5% employer (by Aviva)
• 28 days of holidays
• Latest Apple Mac equipment
• Company virtual events
• Great office snacks to fuel your day
• A positive team to work with daily

Mission

Mission of the Senior Product Manager, Accounting is to make pre‑bookkeeping fast, accurate, and scalable - turning accountants from payment throttlers into payment multipliers. By leveraging automation, AI, and advanced accounting rules, this role will enable finance teams to confidently process over 1,000 payables per month in under an hour per week, freeing accountants from manual work so they can focus on higher‑value impact.

About Spendesk

Spendesk is the AI‑powered spend management and procurement platform that transforms company spending. By simplifying procurement, payment cards, expense management, invoice processing, and accounting automation, Spendesk sets the new standard for spending at work. Its single, intelligent solution makes efficient spending easy for employees and gives finance leaders the full visibility and control they need across all company spend, even in multi‑entity structures. Trusted by thousands of companies, Spendesk supports over 200,000 users across brands such as SoundCloud, Gousto, SumUp, and Bloom & Wild. With offices in the United Kingdom, France, Spain and Germany, Spendesk also puts community at the heart of its mission.

Contact

For more information:

Location

London, England, United Kingdom

Seniority Level

Not Applicable

Employment Type

Full‑time

Job Function

Product Management and Marketing

Industries

Software Development

Diversity & Inclusion

At Spendesk, we're committed to fostering an environment where all differences are encouraged, supported and celebrated. We're building our culture for everyone, with everyone. Our goal is to attract and build a diverse, equal and inclusive team, where everyone feels welcome and we truly embrace and encourage people from all backgrounds to apply.