Global Payments & Banking Operations Lead

Aztec Group; Saint Helier; Hybrid; GBP 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary bonus

Hybrid working

Work abroad up to 3 weeks per year

Generous holiday allowance

Pension scheme

Private medical insurance

Life assurance

Worldwide travel insurance

Health and wellbeing programmes

On-site parking

Job summary

Aztec Group is seeking a seasoned Payments Lead to head the Payments function within the Banking Domain, ensuring a robust, scalable service across jurisdictions. You will drive governance, resilience and performance, while collaborating with Risk, Compliance, Technology and Operations to deliver excellent client service.

You will oversee end-to-end payments operations, optimise systems, and build reporting to monitor service levels.

Qualifications

• Significant banking experience, ideally gained in a multi-jurisdictional financial services, fund administration, corporate services or banking environment.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage the end-to-end payments process, including operating model, controls, configuration, performance management and continuous improvement
• Develop the future payments offering, ensuring it supports the Group’s growth and client service ambitions
• Provide leadership across international payment rails, cross-border processing and banking infrastructure
• Support the selection, implementation and optimisation of SaaS treasury management systems and payment technologies
• Manage relationships with key banking and technology providers and negotiate outcomes
• Collaborate with Risk, Compliance, Technology, Operations and client-facing teams to maintain governance and controls
• Implement contingency and resilience plans to minimise disruption
• Build and maintain reporting and dashboards to monitor performance and risks
• Ensure department OKRs and service standards are met

Skills

Banking experience

International payments

Leadership

Stakeholder mgmt

Risk governance

Vendor management

Problem solving

Attention to detail

Cross-border processing

Service delivery

Tools

Treasury SaaS

Payment hub

Payment workflow tools

Job description

Aztec Group is seeking a seasoned Payments Lead to head the Payments function within the Banking Domain, ensuring a robust, scalable service across jurisdictions. You will drive governance, resilience and performance, while collaborating with Risk, Compliance, Technology and Operations to deliver excellent client service.

You will oversee end-to-end payments operations, optimise systems, and build reporting to monitor service levels.