Senior Manager Bank Relationships EMEA

American Express; Greater London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A global finance company in London seeks a professional to manage bank partner relationships and ensure compliance within payment systems. The ideal candidate has strong communication skills, regulatory knowledge, and can handle complex issues autonomously. This full-time position requires flexibility in working hours due to international operations, offering a hybrid work model with opportunities for impact across teams.

Benefits

Competitive base salaries

Bonus incentives

Flexible working model

Comprehensive medical benefits

Generous paid parental leave

Access to wellness centers

Counseling support program

Qualifications

• Strong knowledge of merchant business processes and supporting technology.
• Experience with payment schemes and regulatory compliance.
• Advanced analytical skills to manage ambiguity.
• Ability to work autonomously and adapt to changing priorities.

Responsibilities

• Manage relationships with partner banks.
• Monitor performance metrics and service level agreements.
• Support problem resolution and lead commercial discussions with partners.
• Interface with technology teams to define business requirements.

Skills

Business Development

Strong communication and presentation skills

Analytical skills

Problem-solving skills

Job description

Benefits

We back you with benefits that support your holistic well-being so you can be and deliver your best. This means caring for you and your loved ones physical financial and mental health as well as providing the flexibility you need to thrive personally and professionally :

• Competitive base salaries
• Bonus incentives
• Support for financial-well-being and retirement
• Comprehensive medical dental vision life insurance and disability benefits (depending on location)
• Flexible working model with hybrid onsite or virtual arrangements depending on role and business need
• Generous paid parental leave policies (depending on your location)
• Free access to global on-site wellness centers staffed with nurses and doctors (depending on location)
• Free and confidential counseling support through our Healthy Minds program

How will you make an impact in this role

The Global Merchant Payments and Disputes team within GMNS Global Strategy Operations & Performance ensures a reliable and seamless merchant experience for payments and disputes.

The key focus and priorities areas for this team are :

• Merchant payments and resiliency ensuring processes and systems support merchant payments resiliency. This includes supporting payment system uplifts.
• Bank relationship management managing bank partners that provide a service to make merchant payments and collections.
• Oversight and control ensuring robust process documentation is in place to support processes identifying and mitigating any process vulnerabilities.
• Disputes management ensuring a compliant and reliable merchant disputes experience.

Specific responsibilities will include :

• Manage the end-to-end process for bank partner relationship for EMEA and Multi-Currency (MCCY) payments and collections: find the right potential partners, negotiate the commercial agreements, complete account opening forms, explain our compliance processes, pass due diligence and do anything else needed to be ready for development.
• Establish and maintain formal contractual arrangements SLAs and other performance.
• Own and manage the day to day relationship with partner banks.
• Monitor daily monthly cumulative statistics for activities with partner banks based on standard Metrics including: on time and delayed file exchanges; payment volumes and value; achievement of agreed SLAs.
• Arrange and facilitate periodic service level review meetings with partner banks and internal business and technology groups.
• Support problem resolution by providing leadership and interaction with partner banks and internal teams.
• Lead commercial and relationship discussions with partners and monitor economics on global routes to ensure we offer the most sustainable and competitive service in the market.
• Oversee external bank partner projects end-to-end working cross functionally to define resources dependencies and timelines and ensure seamless delivery. Partner teams could include servicing technology partners sales and client management and treasury teams.
• Support Payments and Pricing Modernization Enterprise projects by owning some workstreams supporting partner teams on data clean up and managing the merchant experience through the change.
• Interface with technology and product teams to define and communicate business requirements triage system outages support testing efforts make decisions on trade-offs and remove delivery roadblocks.
• Partner effectively across business groups to influence partners to drive change gain technology prioritization and stakeholder buy-in.

Minimum Qualifications

• Strong knowledge of the merchant business related operational processes and supporting technology infrastructure.
• Network management experience including partner management framework assessment and optimization of third-party partners third-party risk management SLA management and fees optimization.
• Payment scheme expertise: Proven experience with payment schemes and their compliance requirements including experience with The Clearing House The Federal Reserve Nacha SEPA Faster Payments Scheme etc.
• Strong understanding of the regulatory landscape affecting payment schemes including AML KYC OFAC PSD2.
• Advanced analytical skills with an ability to introduce structure into ambiguity.
• Strong communication and presentation skills both written and oral. This individual must be able to communicate effectively at all levels of the organization.
• Proven track record to work autonomously and adjust quickly to shifting priorities multiple demands ambiguity and rapid change.
• Problem solving skills to tackle complex and unexpected issues which rise from time to time including escalations from merchants.
• Willingness to occasionally travel between Burgess Hill Brighton and London as needed.
• Working hours flexibility given the international nature of the role.

London based Hybrid

Employment eligibility to work with American Express in the UK is required as the company will not pursue visa sponsorship for these positions.

Key Skills

• Business Development
• Laboratory Experience
• Adobe Analytics
• Wealth Management
• Clinical Laboratory Experience
• Debits & Credits
• Management Experience
• Master Data Management
• Banking
• Data Management
• Specimen Collection / Processing
• Supervising Experience

Employment Type: Full-Time

Experience: years

Vacancy: 1