Management Consulting Senior Manager Payments

Accenture UK & Ireland; London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture UK & Ireland is seeking a Senior Manager in Management Consulting focusing on Payments. The role involves delivering consulting services, developing strategic solutions, and leading complex projects across various sectors. Ideal candidates will have extensive experience in payments, including advisory and leadership roles, coupled with exceptional problem-solving and communication skills. This position offers a competitive salary and benefits, including continuous learning and impactful work in a dynamic environment.

Benefits

30 days vacation plus bank holidays

Private medical insurance

Training and personal development opportunities

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience working in payments advisory, technical, operational, or leadership roles.
• Strong knowledge of cards schemes and processing flows.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Deliver consulting engagements and create value by defining C-Suite strategic agendas.
• Solve complex business problems with minimal management oversight.
• Support the development and growth of Payments practice.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Problem Solving

Analytical Thinking

Commercial Awareness

Job description

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Accenture is a leading global professional services company, providing a broad range of services in strategy and consulting, SONG, technology and operations, with digital capabilities across all of these services. With our thought leadership and culture of innovation, we apply industry expertise, diverse skill sets and next-generation technology to each business challenge.

We believe in inclusion and diversity and supporting the whole person. Our core values comprise of Stewardship, Best People, One Global Network, Respect for the Individual and Integrity.

Across the globe, one thing is universally true of the people of Accenture: we care deeply about what we do and the impact it has on our clients and with each other." – Julie Sweet, Accenture CEO

As a team:

Accenture's Payments practice is a global functional network of more than 14,000 people who work across multiple industries, delivering end-to-end industry capabilities that enable next-generation payments solutions for clients (e.g., banks, insurers, wealth and asset managers, capital markets) but also businesses and public institutions, retail, utilities, and government sectors).

Our payments practitioners serve not only our financial clients (e.g., banks, insurers, wealth and asset managers, capital markets) but also businesses and government sectors, and public institutions, across multiple industries delivering capabilities across payments platform providers, retail, utilities, and government sectors).

If you’re looking for a challenging career working in a vibrant environment with access to training and a global network of experts, this could be the role for you. As part of our global team, you'll be working with cutting-edge technologies and will have the opportunity to develop a wide range of new skills on the job.

As a Senior Manager within Accenture’s Payments practice, there will never be a typical day and that’s why people love it here.

Here are just a few typical responsibilities:

Deliver successful consulting engagements, addressing our clients’ most pressing business challenges, and create lasting value in disciplines such as:

Defining and Implementing C-Suite strategic agendas

Emerging products and services

Organisational redesign and operating model transformation

Artificial intelligence

Core systems transformation

Cost efficiency

Enterprise agility

Drive, identify and support business development and sales, partnering with our leaders, clients, and consultants across our practices to take the best of Accenture to our clients

Solve complex, ambiguous business, change and technology problems, bringing structure and rigorous analysis and planning, acting, and taking decisions with little management oversight

Drive a rigorous and structured approach to solving business problems

Build trusted relationships with client and Accenture teams in a dynamic and challenging environment

Support the development of Accenture’s Payments practice through people development, mentoring of more junior team members, and recruiting activities

Take accountability for developing offerings within Payments, particularly in the Cards space. Play a key role in driving the growth agenda for clients – identifying emerging trends in customers and the market and driving sales as a result

Lead the creation of well-articulated thought leadership assets that present innovative and action-oriented information, insight, knowledge, guidance, and recommendations on a specific market-relevant strategy topic and drive improved market presence in external forum.

We are looking for candidates with the following skills:

10+ years of experience working within payments either in an advisory, technical, operational or leadership capacity, ideally within a bank, payment service provider, fintech or public sector organisation

Subject matter expertise in the cards space, including cards schemes rules, card processing flows (authorization, clearing, settlement), interchange optimisation and card product management

Deep understanding of latest payment industry trends

Exceptional leadership, communication (written and oral) and interpersonal skills

Analytical and dynamic thinker and great problem-solving experience

Commercial awareness to support large scale engagements and spot market opportunities

Proven experience managing and leading large, complex projects and multi-functional teams

Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, including writing of reports

Strong analytical skills, ability to establish fact-based relationships and gain influence in complex organisations

Proven presentation skills, personal impact and charisma to lead large-scale, senior meetings, presentations, and stakeholder forums

Ability to work across both Technology and Business stakeholders

What's in it for you:

At Accenture in addition to a competitive basic salary, you will also have an extensive benefits package which includes 30 days' vacation per year plus bank holidays and private medical insurance and 6 extra days a year as known for.

Flexibility and mobility are required to deliver in this role as there will be requirements to spend time onsite with our clients and partners to enable delivery of the first-class services we are known for.

About Accenture:

Accenture is a leading global professional services company, providing a broad range of services in strategy and consulting, interactive, technology and operations, with digital capabilities across all of these services. We combine unmatched experience and specialized capabilities across more than 40 industries — powered by the world's largest network of Advanced Technology and Intelligent Operations centres. With 750,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries, Accenture brings continuous innovation to help clients improve their performance and create lasting value for their stakeholders. Visit us at www.accenture.com.

Accenture is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all sections of society and does not discriminate on grounds of race, religion or belief, ethnic or national origin, disability, age, citizenship, marital, domestic or civil partnership status, sexual orientation, or gender identity, or any other basis as protected by applicable law.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Strategy/Planning and Consulting

• Industries

  IT Services and IT Consulting

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