Payments Operations Manager /Consultant with Acquiring and / or Merchant Experience 12 months+ [...]

Octopus Computer Associates; City Of London; Remote; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A financial services provider in the UK is seeking a Payments Operations Manager with expertise in managing card acceptance and providing technical consultancy. You will handle complex acceptance issues, support business development, and maintain relationships with clients. The ideal candidate has a strong technical background and data analytics skills. This role offers a 12-month remote contract.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience managing card acceptance from an operational perspective.
• Strong knowledge of SQL and data analytics.
• Ability to build and maintain relationships with clients and stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Provides technical support and consultancy to clients.
• Proactively resolves technical problems.
• Manages communications with client's technical teams.

Skills

Extensive knowledge of the payment ecosystem

Technical remediation

SQL and data analytics

Proficient in MS Office (PowerPoint, Excel, Word)

Natural relationship builder

Job description

Payments Operations Manager /-Consultant with Acquiring and / or Merchant Experience 12 months+ Contract remote

My clients International Client Services team are responsible for understanding and fixing technical problems raised during payment checkout at POS terminals and ecommerce websites. The role holder is accountable for working with clients by providing excellent client management & technical support in remediating acceptance issues. The clients could be Acquirers, , and strategic Merchants. This would entail becoming a trusted partner of our business clients by providing premier customer service and operational consultancy along with key responsibilities in resolving complex and escalated acceptance issues. The ideal candidate has a technical mindset, customer centric view and extended experience leading acceptance remediation projects.

Responsibilities

• Provides technical support and consultancy to assigned markets and clients while naturally becoming the trusted point of contact for fixing technical acceptance issues
• Proactively resolves client business & technical problems while showing strong leadership navigating the articulated business matrix, acting in complete autonomy
• Supports business development teamsto expand acceptance in specific markets
• Supports market testing activities conducted by the company with the partners and lead remediation efforts
• Proactively find gaps in the acceptance by analyzing data
• Manages technical communications with client’s technical team, project team, customer service teams and senior executives
• Executes department initiatives and ensures processes and projects are well documented to meet auditing requirements
• Could have additional responsibilities for planning, directing, and coordinating activities cross functionally.

At a minimum, here’s what we need from you:

• Extensive knowledge and experience of the payment ecosystem, preferably from a scheme background
• Extensive experience in managing card acceptance (technical remediation) from an operational prospective
• SQL and data analytics - STRONG PLUS
• Good knowledge of MS office package e.g. PowerPoint, Excel, Word, etc… with experience in drafting and delivering presentations to peers and senior management
• Natural relationship builder able to proficiently set and maintain great relationships with a portfolio of clients and multiple internal stakeholders