Accounts & Operations Executive

Barcelona, Spain

About the role

Context of

the role The Account and Optimisation Manager will sit at the intersection of client relations and operational execution. In this dual role, you will be the bridge between our clients and our internal technical and financial and operational infrastructure. You will also manage a portfolio of growing business accounts, ensuring their day-to-day transactions run smoothly, while simultaneously troubleshooting operational bottlenecks. Reporting to the regional heads of Account Management, you will build strong day-to-day relationships with these accounts, helping them get the most value from Thunes. You will be their first point of contact for our products and services, ensuring a great customer experience, driving healthy adoption, and identifying smaller cross-sell and upsell opportunities, often in collaboration with more senior Account Managers.

Responsibilities: • Ensure satisfaction across your portfolio of smaller accounts to support positive retention and contractual health • Identify and follow up on cross-sell and upsell opportunities to grow revenue • Act as a day-to-day advocate for your customers, helping Thunes understand their needs and feedback • Work closely with internal teams (e.g. product, sales, compliance, solution delivery and operations) to resolve issues and improve customer experience • Support the rollout of new services and features to your accounts, taking into account market specifics (e.g. regulation, competition) • Take ownership of customer requests, coordinating internally to drive timely resolutions and incremental value • Use clear, structured communication to keep customers and internal stakeholders informed on progress and next steps • Maintain accurate, up-to-date records in our CRM and other tools, ensuring data quality and completeness • Build and maintain strong working relationships with colleagues and customers to ease communication and facilitate quick issue resolution. Skills /

Qualifications: You’re a natural people person who enjoys solving customer problems; you’re excited to deepen your knowledge of high-growth technology and payments businesses; you’re organized, proactive, and comfortable working with data and digital tools. 3–7 years’ experience in B2B Account Management, Customer Success or related client-facing roles • Experience managing a portfolio of small to mid-sized accounts, ideally in technology, SaaS, fintech or financial services • Payments experience is strongly preferred, but not mandatory if you can demonstrate strong interest and the ability to learn quickly • Tech-savvy and comfortable working with digital tools (e.g. Sales Force, Tableau, spreadsheets) and explaining product features to customers • Operationally focused, with the ability to methodically grow live accounts by following structured plans and using metrics • Strong customer success mindset, with a data-driven and process-oriented approach to managing accounts • Solid communication and basic negotiation skills, with the confidence to handle commercial conversations for smaller accounts and to support seniors on larger ones • Strong written and spoken English; Arabic is a plus Package and

Benefits • Great

compensation package, including performance-based commission • Medical insurance for you and your family • Life insurance • Mobile allowance • Employee wellbeing & support program • Learning & Development budget • Work-life balance (flexibility and hybrid working policy) • Our team is global: you will work with 65+ different nationalities spread across 5 continents Sounds like you? About Thunes Thunes is the Smart Superhighway to move money around the world. Thunes’ proprietary Direct Global Network allows Members to make payments in real-time in over 130 countries and more than 80 currencies. Thunes’ network connects directly to over 7 billion mobile wallets and bank accounts worldwide, as well as 15 billion cards via more than 320 different payment methods, such as GCash, M-Pesa, Airtel, MTN, Orange, JazzCash, Easypaisa, AliPay, WeChat Pay and many more. Thunes’ Direct Global Network differentiates itself through its worldwide reach, in-house SmartX Treasury System and Fortress Compliance Platform, ensuring Members of the network receive unrivaled speed, control, visibility, protection and cost efficiencies when making real-time payments, globally. Members of Thunes’ Direct Global Network include gig economy giants like Uber and Deliveroo, super-apps like Grab and WeChat, MTOs, fintechs, PSPs and banks. Headquartered in Singapore, Thunes has offices in 14 locations, including Abidjan, Barcelona, Beijing, Dubai, Hong Kong, Johannesburg, London, Manila, Nairobi, Paris, Riyadh, San Francisco and Shanghai. For more information, visit: https://www.thunes.com/

About Thunes

Thunes provides a global payments infrastructure that enables businesses and financial institutions to move money internationally. The company offers cross-border payment solutions, digital wallets, bank transfers, and mobile money services, allowing users to send and receive funds in various currencies. Thunes focuses on simplifying the complexities of international transactions by connecting different payment systems across countries. The platform supports payment acceptance, disbursement, and currency exchange, helping companies expand their financial reach. Thunes also partners with banks, fintechs, mobile operators, and money transfer operators to facilitate seamless payment flows. Its technology enables fast, transparent, and interoperable financial services across emerging and developed markets. In April 2022, Thunes acquired a controlling stake in a leading anti-money laundering and compliance platform company, Tookitaki, which now enables the company’s advanced compliance, anti-fraud, and anti-money laundering capabilities, setting an international benchmark for sustainable compliance.

The company is headquartered in Singapore, with regional offices in London, Paris, Shanghai, Beijing, Dubai, Hong Kong, Barcelona, Miami, and Nairobi. Current investors include VISA, EDBI, Endeavor Catalyst, Marshall Wace, Bessemer Venture Partners, 01Fintech, Future Shape, Insight Partners, Checkout.com, Helios Investment Partners, and GGV Capital. For more information, visit www.thunes.com.

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Location

Barcelona, Spain

Company

NameThunes
IndustryCross Border
Team Size4

Funding

Total raised

$362M

Last stage

Series D

Investors

Apis Partners
Vitruvian Partners
MMarshall Wace
Bessemer Venture Partners
VVisa

Founders

PD

Peter De Caluwe

Co-Founder & CEO

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Eric Barbier

Eric Barbier

Co-Founder (Former CEO; currently CEO of Triple-A)

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A meeting lands on your calendar

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