Pre-Sales Consultant, South Africa - Johannesburg - BioCatch

    BioCatch
    BioCatch Johannesburg

    1 week ago

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    Description

    About BioCatch:

    BioCatch is the leader in Behavioral Biometrics, a technology that leverages machine learning to analyze an online user's physical and cognitive digital behavior to protect individuals online. Our mission is to unlock the power of behavior and deliver actionable insights to create a digital world where identity, trust, and ease coexist.

    Today, 32 of the world's largest 100 banks and 210 total financial institutions rely on BioCatch Connect to combat fraud, facilitate digital transformation, and grow customer relationships. We continue to innovate to solve tomorrow's problems with over a decade of analyzing data, more than 80 registered patents, and unparalleled experience.

    The Role:

    We are looking for an exceptional individual to join our vibrant Sales organization as a Pre-Sales Consultant based in South Africa. The role requires strong technical skills, deep domain knowledge, sales acumen, and relevant industry expertise with a focus on fraud and financial crime prevention in the Financial Services sector.

    The Pre-Sales Consultant will collaborate with sales, professional services, product management, operations, and engineering to identify customer pain points, ensure product fit, and propose solutions that accurately address customer needs.

    Responsibilities:

    • Undertake detailed discovery with customers to truly uncover their needs and challenges.
    • Deliver presentations, customized demos, working sessions, and scoping meetings to technically qualify deals.
    • Collaborate with customer solution architects to design and document solutions with customer buy-in.
    • Offer expert guidance on integrating BioCatch into customer decision-making processes.
    • Proactively scope and document the technical solution and project plan required to address prospective customer requirements.
    • Coordinate with internal teams to validate the technical and commercial feasibility of solutions.
    • Secure commitments from the customer's technical staff to ensure the deal meets the technical requirements to close.
    • Define Proof of Concepts with clear success criteria and ensure conversion by guiding the delivery team to meet the objectives.
    • Contribute strategic insights to business case development.
    • Lead the response to RFIs and RFPs with compelling, detailed answers.
    • Work with customer InfoSec and BioCatch technical team to successfully answer security questionnaires.
    • Interact regularly with customers to provide thought leadership, business expertise, and guidance to the organization.
    • Attend conferences for speaking engagements, increase BioCatch profile, gather leads, and build personal brand.
    • Maintain market awareness and contribute to competitor intelligence gathering.
    • Build strong relationships with clients and be seen as a trusted advisor on fraud and financial crime risk solutions.

    Requirements:

    • English (Fluent)
    • Must currently reside in South Africa and have necessary permits to work
    • 5 years of pre-sales consulting experience in the fraud, financial crime or related technology space working with top tier banks or 5+ years' experience working at a senior level in a fraud management position at a large bank
    • A passion to work with innovative technology and an entrepreneurial attitude to develop a career with a fast-growing start-up.
    • Preferred experience in enterprise architectures and AI solutions.
    • Deep understanding of the fraud prevention, AML, and financial crime landscape.
    • General understanding of security frameworks.
    • Good technical awareness to aid sales discussions, ideally including an understanding of items such as operating systems (Linux), cloud computing (Azure, AWS), data types (CSV, XML, JSON), database technologies & storage, API integrations, HTML, JavaScript, SDKs, SPA development.
    • Basic understanding of analytical techniques and constraints of statistical modeling and Machine Learning algorithms.
    • Outstanding oral and written communication skills; effectively communicate technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
    • Strong presentation skills and required to create custom market-facing presentations.
    • Highly proficient analytical and problem-solving skills to uncover the customer need/challenge using probing questions, draw valid conclusions, and identify risks, whilst defining an appropriate solution.
    • Travel required 25%-60% of the time within South Africa.


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