Senior Customer Success Manager

Who we are?Silverfin is a cutting-edge cloud software solution built by accountants, for accountants. Founded in 2013, Silverfin was created to solve the frustrations of manual, error-prone processes in analysing financial data and compliance. From day one, we’ve been a cloud-first platform with an open API architecture, leveraging structured data to transform how accountants work.Our mission is simple: to enhance and support the accountancy profession through AI and automation, ensuring accountants remain relevant and respected in the future of finance.In 2023, Silverfin became part of the Visma Group, joining one of Europe’s leading providers of cloud software. This partnership strengthens our ability to innovate and expand our impact within the accountancy industry.Today, Silverfin is trusted by over 930 firms across 16 countries. Our clients include all of the Big 4 accounting firms, as well as leading global networks like BDO, PKF, Baker Tilly, Grant Thornton, and Moore.Headquartered in Ghent, with offices in London, Luxembourg, Gouda (NL), and Mont-Saint-Guibert, we’re a team of over 180 people - including a diverse remote engineering team working across multiple time zones - all working together to drive innovation in accounting.How would you support our success?We have an exciting opportunity to work in a growing and evolving Customer Success Team, with aspirations of becoming a truly world class organisation. As a Senior customer Success Manager (CSM) for the Walloon market, your key focus is to drive value, adoption and retention of your customers investment. Success of this role is defined by the customer deriving consistent value from Silverfin, resulting in the renewal and growth of their investment over time. As a CSM you will build a strong internal network, partnering and collaborating closely with the wider team to ensure the customer receives best in class engagement.Your responsibilitiesEngagement Cadence – Maintain a regular engagement cadence with the customer and customer executives that covers all phases of the post‐purchase customer journey from Onboarding to Value Realisation to Renewal. Create a Success Plan that outlines the customer’s business goals and adoption activities needed to meet that goal. Lead regular Business Reviews to track progress against the customer’s goals.Building Community – Driving engagement and champions across the broader customer network, and leading initiatives such as events.Product Advocacy – Act as the bridge between the customer and Silverfin’s product teams by understanding the customer’s needs, the impact it will have on their business and communicate that internally. Communicate Silverfin’s product investments back to the customer and the value it will add to the customer.Adoption Metrics – Leverage data to track the success of your adoption activities. This will include creating an Adoption Map laying out the groups of users leveraging Silverfin, the key sponsors, champions, use cases and value that Silverfin is providing. Conduct capability assessments using our customer maturity model to understand where the customer is on their journey of adopting Silverfin and identify areas the customer needs to invest in.Support Advocacy – Work closely with the customer and internal support teams to manage expectations based on their support agreement with Silverfin. When necessary, act as the point of escalation for customer support issues.Risk management – Proactively engage with the customer, ensuring any risks are identified as early as possible, what their commercial or technology impact could be, and clear action plans are devised to overcome.Experience and QualificationsPrevious experience as a Customer Success Manager, Account Manager or in a consultative role. Experience working with (or for) Enterprise customers in the accounting/financial services is highly desirable, however we will consider candidates from another easily transferable industry.Skills and knowledgeStrong organisational skills. Proven ability to prioritise and maintain a system for proactively managing multiple customers, projects and requests, for creating and managing a plan, and for keeping your ad-hoc teams organised too.Strong commercial acumen. Ability to access risk indicators, devise proactive action plans to overcome. Confident in managing expectations, investigative questioning and adapting in pressure situations.Excellent communication skills: Proven ability to communicate effectively across the experience / management spectrum, translate between technical and non‐technical teams, and can empathetically communicate a customer’s pain to internal Silverfin teams.Language skills: fluency in French and English. Attitude and personality-related traitsCreative, engaging and enthusiastic. Demonstrated creativity with customer engagement and problem solving. Drive change and improvement and get involved with global initiatives to continue to evolve the team.Ability to drive value. Passionate about helping customers maximise the benefits of Silverfin and understand the importance of success to the account and the individual.Self‐motivated, choose to take ownership, enjoy self‐learning, and proactively drive success.Strong team player, willing to help, support and advise those around you, and open to collaboration and constructive feedback to evolve in role.We Care For YouBe part of something bigger – Join a growing SaaS company that’s now proudly part of Visma, Europe’s leader in mission-critical cloud software.A connected team, wherever you are – Take part in regular team activities, retreats, and offsites to keep our culture thriving.Grow with us – Take advantage of career development opportunities and a personal training allowance to support your growth.Time to recharge – Enjoy our company-wide Wellbeing Days off each month (reviewed annually).Fair compensation – Receive a competitive rewards package with benefits tailored to your role.Flexibility with connection – We have a hybrid setup, with a minimum of two days a week in the office. However, we understand that life can be unpredictable, so we offer flexibility to accommodate unexpected events. Our offices in Belgium ( Mont-Saint-Guibert and Ghent), the UK (London – Old Street / Shoreditch), the Netherlands (Gouda), and Luxembourg provide great spaces to collaborate and connect.How we workAt Silverfin, we're an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability status. We're committed to elevating talent by creating an environment where we can all thrive together.We have a unique culture with our values ​​as the backbone:Who we are - Authentically humanHow we think - With a growth mindsetHow we act - Bravely, side by sideHow we win - By doing what we loveAt Silverfin we make our own way. We are constantly looking for new and innovative ways to move forward. Continuous learning and development is encouraged to support your personal and professional growth. At the same time, this opens up many new opportunities that allow our people to grow with Silverfin, and often faster than with other companies. So many ambitious team members have already found their way to a new challenge within Silverfin.We want you to reach your full potential. To get you there, we don't want to think in boxes and over-structure things. So your options are not limited to 1 team or 1 career track. Your talent, motivation and potential play a crucial role in evolving across the teams into new roles.