Payments Transformation Lead

G MASS Consulting; Greater London; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading consulting firm in the UK is seeking a Transformations Lead to support a financial services firm's payments program. This role involves managing project delivery, coordinating across departments, and ensuring alignment with regulatory timelines. The ideal candidate should have experience in change and transformations within payments. Salary ranges from £50,000 to £70,000 per annum, initially on a 12-month contract with potential for extension.

Qualifications

• Experience in Project Management, PMO, Transformation, or Projects.
• Experience with cross-border payments or payment processing.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities

• Lead day-to-day delivery across the payments programme.
• Manage changes to scope, timelines, and resources.
• Coordinate across departments for cohesive delivery.
• Provide clear reporting to senior stakeholders.

Skills

Change/Transformations experience

Experience within institutional payments

Knowledge of payments regulations

Highly organized

Proactive mindset

Job description

Overview

Base pay range

G MASS Consulting are supporting a leading financial services firm as they build out a new payments function and acquire a payments license. Our client require a dedicated Transformations Lead to help drive successful delivery. This is a great opportunity to join at the early stages of a major build-out, working closely with senior stakeholders to help structure, track and drive progress across a complex, fast-moving programme.

Responsibilities

• Support day-to-day delivery across the payments programme, ensuring alignment with strategic goals and regulatory timelines.
• Lead regular project meetings and working groups, driving agenda, actions, and follow-ups to ensure accountability.
• Manage changes to scope, timelines and resources through a controlled change management process.
• Maintain programme plans, milestones, RAID logs, and governance documents to ensure accuracy and control.
• Coordinate across multiple departments to manage dependencies and drive cohesive delivery.
• Track progress against regulatory and operational milestones, highlighting risks and resolving issues through governance channels.
• Identify and escalate delivery risks early, supporting mitigation planning to maintain momentum and stability.
• Provide clear, insight-driven reporting to senior stakeholders, enabling informed decision-making and effective oversight.
• Develop and manage detailed project plans, ensuring tasks, owners and deadlines are clearly defined and tracked.
• Ensure delivery aligns with agreed methodologies (e.g. Agile, Waterfall or hybrid), adapting approaches as appropriate.
• Build strong relationships with stakeholders at all levels, promoting transparency, engagement and shared ownership of outcomes.

Requirements

• Change/Transformations experience is essential for this role - Project Management, PMO, Transformation, Projects
• Experience within institutional payments is essential - ideally including cross-border payments or payment processing.
• Knowledge of payments regulations (e.g. PSD2, FCA, EMI licensing) is a strong advantage.
• Highly organised, proactive and ambitious, with a delivery-focused mindset.
• Confident working in a fast-paced and evolving environment.

Paying in the region of £50,000 - £70,000 per annum. Initial 12-month contract with the expectation to be extended or to be made permanent.