“I admire your tenacity and persistence and would be more than happy to work with you again on another requirement going forward.”

Chief Product Officer - Receipt Bank

The Client

Receipt Bank are a multi-award-winning FinTech company, once-dubbed the UK’s 7th fastest-growing tech company in the Deloitte “Fast 50” in 2017. Awards also include a CPA Practice advisor technology innovation award in 2018 amongst a whole a host of others.

A pre-accounting platform that tracks business expenses, Receipt Bank uses a combination of AI-powered OCR technology and human verification to turn documents into digital data.

Receipt Bank have an easy-to-use mobile app that minimizes data entry each time, with superb integration across several different accounting apps. For cloud or desktop systems, the general ledger is updated in real time, so businesses and clients alike are consistently kept up-to-date.

With such high standards to uphold, providing incredible levels of accuracy, the new hire was a central role ensuring maintenance of these high levels.

The Challenge

Receipt Bank had been unable to fill the position of their Head of Product for their AI team. This role had been live for quite some time, with many other agencies working to fill the role, as well as internal talent teams.

For such a specialist role, it was imperative that time was taken to find the perfect (and worthy) candidate.

Salary was proving to be the biggest challenge, with a Head of Product typically paid higher than what Receipt Bank was willing to offer. The candidate needed to meet several criteria, whilst being paid slightly beneath market average. The desired candidate needed experience in a previous AI Product Manager role, a good degree and an MBA, with an inquisitive and curious nature.

The Result

The key success for us in making this placement, and how we’re different from other recruitment agencies, is the level of attention we take to source the perfect candidate. We placed Prasana at Receipt Bank through our 360 approach to the recruitment process.

We provide consistent communication throughout, inclusive of follow-up after the placement has happened. This careful treatment of good quality candidates ensures we continue to be called upon for future placements.

There was a two-stage interview process: In the first instance, a phone interview, then a face-to-face with the Chief Product Officer. The CPO agreed to work with us again and we’re looking to place our next candidate with them soon.

John Magani, part of our Product team, accurately identified and proffered 4 high-calibre candidates. Upholding our market-leading 2:1 ratio, two of the candidates went through to interview. Whilst one of the candidates was over-budget, we successfully placed the other.

 

Hear from the candidate…

Prasana was placed in Receipt Bank in October 2018 and is proving to be a highly successful placement, enhancing and honing the product trajectory in line with the company’s vision.

"During my executive head hunting, John was instrumental in the selection and placement process on my current role as Head of Product at Receipt Bank. He worked diligently from initial engagement phase to finalising to signing off employee contract. He is very focused, meticulous, timely and communicative and a pleasure to use his executive head-hunting skills."

Hear from the client...

John Connolly, Chief Product Officer, Receipt Bank, when speaking about Associate Product Recruitment Consultant, John Magani:

“I admire your tenacity and persistence and would be more than happy to work with you again on another requirement going forward.”