Business Manager - Technology

Solaris is Europe’s leading embedded finance platform, pioneering Banking-as-a-Service to bridge the gap between financial technology and licensed banking. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Berlin, Solaris enables fintechs, digital ecosystems, and multinationals to embed accounts, cards, lending, and payments directly into their own products, creating seamless financial experiences for their users. As a fully licensed German bank, Solaris combines the highest standards of IT security and regulatory resilience with a modular, highly scalable infrastructure. Today, Solaris is driving the next evolution of financial services by transitioning into an AI-native banking platform, ensuring European businesses can deploy secure, adaptable financial products at scale. #### **Why join Solaris?** - 🚀 We are fundamentally redesigning banking processes around AI orchestration, standardized modular building blocks, and embedded regulatory compliance. - 🎯 We combine tech and banking in dedicated hubs - driving the technology infrastructure out of Berlin and banking operations out of Frankfurt. - 💡 Through our internal mobility, growth opportunities, and the Solaris Academy, we offer continuous learning tracks, AI ambassador mentorship, and upskilling to keep your skills ahead of the curve. - ⚖️ We foster a workplace rooted in integrity, proactive risk management, and equality actively driving initiatives like DEI initiatives. #### Your Role **Executive Support** - Support the Executive Director of Technology in developing and executing the ICT/IT strategy and transformation. - Prepare executive presentations, board materials, management reports, and strategic communication - Drive follow-up actions from leadership meetings and ensure timely execution #### Financial & Resource Management - Proactively manage technology plans, budgets, forecasts, and actuals on a monthly base in close cooperation with the Finance team - Track operational and capital expenditures and report on deviations to the plan, ensure proper financial change request management - Support financial planning, business case development, and cost optimization initiatives #### Performance Management - Establish and maintain governance frameworks across the Technology organization - Define and track KPIs, OKRs, and technology performance metrics - Ensure transparency regarding deliveries, dependencies, risks, and issues - Coordinate consistent management reportings and executive dashboards #### Risk, Audit & Regulatory Support - Support technology-related regulatory and audit activities including coordinating responses to external and internal audits, and monitor remediation plans and ensure timely closure of actions #### Stakeholder Management - Act as trusted supporter to the technology leadership team, facilitate leadership meetings and drive alignment across cross-functional stakeholders #### We'd love to see Depending on your level of experience, your responsibilities and scope of role will range. We don’t care much about fancy titles, but rather about real personal and professional development, as laid out in our learning framework. Let’s figure together out how you can contribute to our team. - Holds a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Business Administration, Finance, Information Technology, or a related field - Has several years of experience in working in or with technology organizations, ideally in the Financial Services industry. - Has strong financial and analytical skills - Shows proficiency in Microsoft 365 and/or Google Workplace - Has excellent communication and executive presentation skills - Is highly organized, structured, and proactive and is able to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment - Comfortable working with AI tools, thinking critically about AI outputs, and contributing to a culture of responsible AI use. We expect you to demonstrate comfort with AI-assisted workflows and a willingness to continuously develop their AI capabilities as the technology evolves. #### Benefits - Home office budget. - Learning & development budget of €1000 per year and a transparent growth framework to support your career goals. - Competitive salary and a variable remuneration program. - Monthly meal allowance. - Deutschland ticket subsidy. - 28 vacation days, increasing by 2 days after 2 years and 3 days after 3 years with Solaris. - Opportunity to work abroad for up to 12 weeks per year. *While job ads usually paint an ideal picture of a candidate, studies show that most applicants meet an average of 60% of the criteria. Unfortunately, many promising candidates tend to apply only if they meet all the criteria. So if you think you have what it takes, but don't necessarily meet every single item in the job description, please contact us anyway. We'd love to talk with you and find out if you might be a good fit for us.* At Solaris, we are committed to nurturing an inclusive environment, where all Solarians feel valued, respected and supported. We are dedicated to building a diverse workforce that reflects the diversity of our communities. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of color, ethnicity, religion, sex, origin, disability, marital status, citizenship, or gender identity. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know. If your application is successful, you will be required to complete pre-employment background checks through our screening provider Zinc. These include, but not limited to identity verification, educational records, references, a criminal record check, etc. The processing is based on Art. 6(1)(c) GDPR. 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