Associate Director, Card Payments Economics

Airwallex; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 120.000 - 180.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Airwallex is hiring an Associate Director, Payments/Scheme Economics to own the integrity and management of payment costs, starting with card scheme fees across Visa and Mastercard.

Reporting to the Head of Strategic Finance, you will translate complex network rules into accurate configurations and financial outcomes, ensuring costs are reflected across systems and identifying opportunities to improve economics at scale.

Qualifikationen

• 7+ years of experience in payments, acquiring, issuing, card networks or payment infrastructure.
• Deep knowledge of card payment economics including interchange and scheme fees.
• Strong ability to operationalize complex payment rules into system logic.
• Experience with payment cost systems, BIN routing, and rule configurations.
• Strong analytical and quantitative capabilities with transaction-level data.
• Solid commercial judgment and ability to connect mechanics to pricing and margins.
• Excellent cross-functional execution across Product, Engineering, Finance and Data.
• Exceptional attention to detail and ownership in rule-rich environments.

Aufgaben

• Own scheme economics and rule interpretation across fees, interchange and network rules.
• Translate scheme rules into fee tables and transaction logic; ensure accurate cost reflection.
• Establish governance, testing and controls for scheme configurations; identify anomalies.
• Develop models and analytics for unit economics, margins and cost movements.
• Identify opportunities to improve economics via routing, configuration and levers; collaborate with teams.
• Shape pricing and commercial decisions based on underlying economics for markets and launches.
• Build scalable cost engines, dashboards and automated controls; apply AI to detect anomalies.
• Serve as escalation point for scheme pricing and partner with Visa/Mastercard when needed.

Kenntnisse

Payments experience

Card payment economics

Rule interpretation

Cost systems

Data analytics

Commercial judgment

Cross-functional collaboration

Attention to detail

Jobbeschreibung

Airwallex is hiring an Associate Director, Payments/Scheme Economics to own the integrity and management of payment costs, starting with card scheme fees across Visa and Mastercard.

Reporting to the Head of Strategic Finance, you will translate complex network rules into accurate configurations and financial outcomes, ensuring costs are reflected across systems and identifying opportunities to improve economics at scale.