Payment Lifecycle Manager III

Unlock your potential by joining our Payments Operations team, where you will play a pivotal role in transforming payment processing operations. This is your opportunity to drive innovation, enhance operational efficiency, and contribute to a dynamic and inclusive team culture. Be at the heart of our mission to deliver exceptional payment solutions and make a meaningful impact on the future of digital payments.

As a Payment Lifecycle Manager III within Payments Operations, you will be a key player in the firm's payment processing operations, leveraging your deep knowledge of payment lifecycle principles and practices. You will be responsible for managing a diverse team, driving automation initiatives, and developing new technologies to streamline processes. Your role will involve interpreting customer needs, identifying trends, and generating innovative solutions to enhance our operational efficiency and resilience. You will also be instrumental in managing stakeholder relationships, ensuring cybersecurity, and implementing anti-fraud strategies. Your advanced proficiency in strategic planning, project management, and change management will be crucial in leading the team towards achieving our long-term goals.

Job responsibilities

• Lead and oversee strategic projects aimed at expanding the firm's presence in new markets, including regulatory requirements and operational readiness.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive the execution of market expansion initiatives, ensuring alignment with the firm's long-term business strategy and compliance with local and global regulations.
• Present strategic project updates and market expansion progress to senior leadership, providing actionable insights and recommendations. Foster partnerships with all stakeholders to support market expansion and strategic collaboration. Monitor and report on the effectiveness of market expansion strategies, adjusting plans as needed to achieve desired outcomes.
• Lead teams responsible for end-to-end operational processes within the payments lifecycle, overseeing daily operations, setting objectives, managing escalations, and ensuring quality, risk, control, and compliance standards are upheld.
• Utilize deep knowledge of products and payments to interpret customer needs, identify trends, and implement innovative solutions that enhance payment operations processes, leveraging AI and automation for efficiency and compliance.
• Lead or contribute to initiatives that enhance payment processing operations, focusing on client experience, process optimization, cybersecurity, and anti-fraud strategies, while providing domain and technical expertise. Drive execution of operational strategy and present business updates to critical stakeholders, including senior leadership and external clients, ensuring compliance with operational guidelines and policies.
• Foster an inclusive culture by enhancing employee engagement, attracting and developing talent, and applying advanced coaching and mentoring skills to promote professional growth and high-quality service delivery. Develop and contribute to concise communication materials for senior management; strong verbal and written communications and deck-writing skills required.
• Support the creation of governance framework, tools, and common methodology for program management office (and for use across Project/Change management efforts supporting the program, as appropriate)
• Work with strategy leads, controls, and other partners to implement governance / control points / proper SOP documentation needs for newly developed business processes . Support successful execution of each program in the strategic portfolio, including quickly escalating key issues/recommendations to senior management for resolution
• Demonstrate superior judgment to mitigate risk. Escalate risk/control issues and ensure trends are anticipated and identified
• Have strong risk and control focus and apply this in every aspect of the day to day role

• Demonstrated ability in operations leadership or management within payments, with at least seven years of experience leading high-performing teams to achieve business priorities and objectives.
• Advanced knowledge of global payment processing operations, market products, systems architecture, and industry regulations to support operational efficiency, change management, and transformation.
• Proficiency in strategic planning and execution, including implementing automation technologies to optimize payments processing across global and cross-functional departments.
• Skilled in data analysis techniques, capable of interpreting and communicating insights to inform decision-making with senior stakeholders, while applying a commercial and growth mindset in fast-paced environments.
• Strong interpersonal skills to optimize relationships and collaboration with stakeholders and cross-functional teams, managing projects, solving problems, and driving continuous improvement initiatives.
• Understanding of cybersecurity controls and anti-fraud strategies to identify and prevent potential threats, ensuring the protection of information and systems, with a proven track record in enhancing customer experience.

• Knowledge of ISO or Swift message processing or management.
• Good experience of Project Management
• Knowledge of automation tools like Tableau, Alteryx, Machine Learning will be an added advantage