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Location: Hybrid, Central London (2–3 days in office)

A high-profile opportunity has arisen for a Senior Payments Consultant to take the lead on shaping and delivering strategic payment initiatives for a major global operation. This role combines commercial insight with deep payments expertise, focusing on improving partner payout processes, maximising revenue opportunities, and enhancing customer payment experiences worldwide.

You’ll operate as a trusted advisor to senior leadership, translating business requirements into practical, commercially viable solutions, and guiding cross-functional teams through implementation.

Main Duties

Strategic Leadership in Payments

• Lead on all commercial considerations relating to partner payments, ensuring strategies align with market shifts and customer needs.
• Define a forward-looking payments plan and oversee its delivery.

Identifying and Capitalising on Opportunities

• Analyse existing processes to uncover inefficiencies or gaps.
• Prepare robust business cases to secure buy-in for proposed changes.
• Reduce obstacles in the payment journey to boost both revenue and customer satisfaction.

Collaborating Across the Business

• Work closely with product, technology, finance, risk, and compliance teams, as well as external payment providers, to bring initiatives to life.

Risk and Compliance Guidance

• Offer commercial interpretations of payment-related regulations (such as PSD2, PCI DSS, and sector-specific guidelines) and advise on practical application.

Skills & Experience Required

• Extensive experience (8+ years) in the payments sector, ideally covering B2B issuing.
• Strong commercial acumen, with proven ability to influence decision-makers.
• Track record of developing and executing commercially driven strategies.
• Skilled in managing diverse stakeholders and navigating complex organisational structures.
• Confident working with data to diagnose issues and highlight opportunities.
• Experience within travel, e-commerce, financial services, or similarly complex payment environments is highly desirable.
• Comfortable working end-to-end, from high-level strategy to detailed execution.
• Prior consultancy or fintech background beneficial.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Director

Employment type

• Employment type

  Contract

Job function

• Job function

  Finance

• Industries

  Banking

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