Group Payments Manager

SSE; Glasgow; Hybrid; GBP 52,000 - 77,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private healthcare discounts

Gym membership discounts

Cycle to Work scheme

Maternity / Adoption pay

Job summary

SSE is seeking a Group Payments Manager to lead a critical, group-wide payments function. The role focuses on safe, efficient settlement activity and governance across the end-to-end lifecycle. You will drive improvements using data, automation and collaboration with banking partners to manage high-value, time-critical payments.

Based in Glasgow with a hybrid pattern, you’ll influence stakeholders and lead a resilient payments operation aligned with SSE’s broader finance strategy.

Qualifications

• Significant experience leading payment operations, settlements or treasury functions within a large organisation.
• Strong understanding of end-to-end payment lifecycle, banking platforms, approvals and reconciliation.
• Proven experience with governance, control frameworks, fraud prevention and operational resilience.
• Experience delivering operational transformation using automation and digital tools.
• Analytical mindset with data-driven decision making across performance and risk metrics.
• Excellent leadership and stakeholder management, building high-performing teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Group Payments function to deliver safe, efficient and secure payment and settlement activity.
• Oversee governance, risk, resilience across end-to-end payment lifecycle.
• Manage delivery and escalation of complex, high-value, time-critical payments.
• Use data, technology and automation to strengthen controls and improve processes.
• Build relationships with stakeholders, banks and providers to ensure resilience and future readiness.

Skills

Payments operations

Risk & governance

Data analytics

Stakeholder management

Automation

Leadership

Job description

Base Location: You'll be expected to spend 50% of your working week in one of the following locations :Glasgow Eurocentral (ML1 4YQ)

Salary: £51,600 - £77,400+ performance-related bonus + a range of benefits to support your finances, wellbeing and family.

Working Pattern: Permanent Full Time Flexible First options available

The role

As Group Payments Manager, you’ll lead a critical Group-wide function, ensuring payment and settlement activity is delivered safely, efficiently and securely. You’ll oversee operational performance, governance, risk and resilience, while driving continuous improvement across the end-to-end payment lifecycle.

Using data, technology and automation, you’ll identify opportunities to strengthen controls, improve performance and build a resilient payments operation that’s fit for the future. You’ll also work closely with key stakeholders, banking partners and third-party providers to ensure complex, high-value, high-risk and time-critical payments are managed effectively.

You will

• Lead the Group Payments function, ensuring payment and settlement activity is delivered safely, efficiently and securely.
• Oversee operational performance, governance, risk and resilience across the end-to-end payment lifecycle.
• Manage the effective delivery and escalation of complex, high-value, high-risk and time-critical payments.
• Use data, technology and automation to strengthen controls, improve processes and drive continuous improvement.
• Build strong relationships with key stakeholders, banking partners and third-party providers, ensuring payment operations remain resilient and fit for the future.

You have

• Significant experience leading payment operations, settlements, treasury operations or other highly controlled financial processes within a large, complex organisation.
• Strong understanding of the end-to-end payment and settlement lifecycle, including payment execution, banking platforms, approvals, reconciliation and exception management.
• Proven experience managing operational risk, governance and control frameworks, including fraud prevention, audit, remediation and operational resilience.
• Demonstrable experience delivering operational transformation and continuous improvement, using automation, digital tools and process simplification to improve efficiency and controls.
• Strong analytical and decision-making skills, using operational data, performance measures and risk indicators to identify opportunities and drive improvements.
• Excellent leadership and stakeholder management skills, with experience building high-performing teams and working collaboratively with Treasury, banking partners and senior stakeholders.

About SSE

SSE’s purpose is to be restless every day until we make electricity clean, affordable and available for all.

We do this by developing, building, operating and investing in electricity infrastructure and businesses needed in the energy transition. This includes electricity transmission and distribution networks, onshore and offshore wind farms, hydro-electric power and flexible thermal generation. We also provide products and services for businesses and other customers.

Our investment plan will see SSE invest £33bn in critical electricity infrastructure to 2030.

Our Finance teams create value for all SSE business areas and play a key role in fulfilling our obligations as a FTSE100 UK-listed company. In a highly regulated and competitive environment, their experts keep us powering ahead by identifying efficiencies, providing advice and optimising our financial strategies.

Flexible benefits to fit your life

Enjoy discounts on private healthcare and gym memberships. Wellbeing benefits like a free online GP and 24/7 counselling service. Interest-free loans on tech and transport season tickets, or a new bike with our Cycle to Work scheme. As well as generous family entitlements such as maternity and adoption pay, and paternity leave.

Work with an equal opportunity employer

SSE will make any reasonable adjustments you need to ensure that your application and experience with us is positive. Please contact [e-mail] / 01738 344763 to discuss how we can support you.

We're dedicated to fostering an open and inclusive workplace where people from all backgrounds can thrive. We create equal opportunities for everyone to succeed and especially welcome applications from those who may not be well represented in our workforce or industry.