Senior Card Scheme & PCI Compliance Lead

Westpac; New Zealand; On-site; NZD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Holiday allowance

Wellbeing days

Additional leave options

Banking benefits

Career growth

Parental leave top-up

Volunteer days

Job summary

Westpac New Zealand seeks a Scheme and PCI Compliance Lead to drive end-to-end compliance with card schemes and PCI obligations across issuing, acquiring, and related payment activities. You will establish governance, track requirements, and report to senior management.

You will lead a team, manage relationships with card schemes and vendors, translate updates into actionable business and technical tasks, and influence risk and audit outcomes.

Qualifications

• Extensive payments industry exposure.
• Proven ability to influence stakeholders at senior levels.
• Demonstrated leadership and culture-building experience.
• Experience with card schemes or transactional products.

Responsibilities

• Own WNZL’s enterprise card scheme and PCI compliance posture, ensuring obligations are identified, tracked and met across issuing, acquiring, ATM, and related activities.
• Establish and operate a clear governance framework for scheme compliance, including reporting and escalation.
• Lead the scheme and PCI compliance roadmap, translating updates into actionable business, technology, vendor and operational actions.
• Provide senior management, Risk, and Audit with confidence that scheme obligations are understood and met.
• Own relationships with card schemes from a compliance perspective and oversee vendor compliance where needed.
• Lead a team of professionals to deliver customer and banker outcomes and reduce risk across Payments.
• Perform related duties as assigned by senior leadership.

Skills

Payments industry experience

Stakeholder management

Leadership

Card products knowledge

Governance

Job description

Westpac New Zealand seeks a Scheme and PCI Compliance Lead to drive end-to-end compliance with card schemes and PCI obligations across issuing, acquiring, and related payment activities. You will establish governance, track requirements, and report to senior management.

You will lead a team, manage relationships with card schemes and vendors, translate updates into actionable business and technical tasks, and influence risk and audit outcomes.