Head of Card Scheme & PCI Compliance

Westpac New Zealand; Wellington; On-site; NZD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

4 weeks holiday + wellbeing leave

Parental leave & top-up

Volunteer days

Insurance discounts

Career growth

Job summary

Westpac New Zealand is seeking a senior payments compliance leader to own enterprise card scheme and PCI obligations across issuing, acquiring and related activities in Wellington. You will establish governance, translate scheme changes into action, and provide senior management with confidence that obligations are met.

You will lead a high-performing team, manage relationships with card schemes and vendors, and drive risk reduction across Payments while delivering customer and banker outcomes.

Qualifications

• Significant payments industry experience.
• Strong stakeholder management skills across internal and external levels.
• Proven leadership and culture-building skills.
• Banker experience with cards or transactional products.
• Payment industry and governance experience.

Responsibilities

• Own WNZL’s enterprise card scheme and PCI compliance posture across acquiring, issuing, ATM, agency banking and related activities.
• Establish and operate a governance framework for scheme compliance with reporting, escalation and assurance.
• Lead the scheme and PCI compliance roadmap, assess and translate scheme bulletins and PCI updates into actions.
• Provide senior management, Risk and Audit with confidence that obligations are understood and met.
• Own relationships with card schemes from a compliance perspective and oversee third-party/vendor compliance where needed.
• Lead a team of professionals to deliver customer and banker outcomes while reducing risk across Payments.
• Perform related duties as assigned by senior leadership.

Skills

Payments industry experience

Stakeholder management

Leadership & culture building

Card schemes/transactions experience

Governance experience

Job description

Westpac New Zealand is seeking a senior payments compliance leader to own enterprise card scheme and PCI obligations across issuing, acquiring and related activities in Wellington. You will establish governance, translate scheme changes into action, and provide senior management with confidence that obligations are met.

You will lead a high-performing team, manage relationships with card schemes and vendors, and drive risk reduction across Payments while delivering customer and banker outcomes.