Payment Partnerships Senior Manager

Nicoll Curtin; Singapore; On-site; SGD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Nicoll Curtin in Singapore seeks an experienced payments professional to establish merchant-acquiring and payment-gateway capabilities. This full-time role reports to a senior compliance leader and will coordinate the business from initial setup through to launch and ongoing operations. You will manage relationships, model assessments, and partner negotiations while guiding technical and operational teams to stable day-to-day performance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Economics, Technology, Law or a related discipline.
• Around 7+ years of relevant payments experience.
• Experience with a card scheme, acquiring bank, payment facilitator, merchant acquirer, gateway or payment processor.
• Direct involvement in building or launching a new payments, acquiring or card-processing capability.
• Good understanding of card authorization, clearing, settlement, processing fees, refunds, chargebacks and fraud.
• Experience coordinating commercial, technical, operational and legal workstreams.

Responsibilities

• Build relationships with card schemes, acquiring banks, settlement banks, payment processors, gateways and other payment providers.
• Assess different merchant-acquiring models and recommend the most suitable approach for the business.
• Evaluate potential partners based on capabilities, terms and implementation requirements.
• Negotiate processing fees, settlement timelines, reserves, service levels and other commercial arrangements.
• Coordinate partner applications, due diligence, registrations, approvals and renewals.
• Manage technical integration, testing and certification activities with product and engineering teams.
• Translate partner requirements into clear business, operational and technical actions.
• Build operating processes covering merchant onboarding, settlement, reconciliation, refunds, chargebacks and fraud.
• Track partner obligations, certifications, service performance, incidents and dependencies.
• Coordinate launch-readiness reviews across product, engineering, finance, treasury, risk, compliance, information security and operations.
• Monitor payment performance and resolve settlement failures or partner breaches.
• Support the transition from implementation into stable day-to-day payment operations.

Skills

Payments ecosystem

Stakeholder management

Negotiation

Project management

Analytical

Commercial terms

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Economics, Technology, Law or related

Tools

Card schemes

Acquiring banks

Merchant acquirer

Gateways

Job description

A growing regional payments company is looking for an experienced payments professional to help establish its merchant-acquiring and payment-gateway capabilities.

This is a full-time position based in Singapore, reporting to a senior legal and compliance leader.

The person will build the required banking and payment-partner ecosystem and coordinate the business from initial setup through to launch and ongoing operations.

Responsibilities

• Build relationships with card schemes, acquiring banks, settlement banks, payment processors, gateways and other payment providers.
• Assess different merchant-acquiring models and recommend the most suitable approach for the business.
• Evaluate potential partners based on their capabilities, commercial terms and implementation requirements.
• Negotiate processing fees, settlement timelines, reserves, service levels and other commercial arrangements.
• Coordinate partner applications, due diligence, registrations, approvals and renewals.
• Manage technical integration, testing and certification activities with product and engineering teams.
• Translate partner requirements into clear business, operational and technical actions.
• Build operating processes covering merchant onboarding, settlement, reconciliation, refunds, chargebacks and fraud.
• Track partner obligations, certifications, service performance, incidents and outstanding dependencies.
• Coordinate launch-readiness reviews across product, engineering, finance, treasury, risk, compliance, information security and operations.
• Monitor payment performance and resolve settlement failures, service issues or partner breaches.
• Support the transition from implementation into stable day-to-day payment operations.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Economics, Technology, Law or a related discipline.
• Around 7+ years of relevant payments experience.
• Practical experience working with a card scheme, acquiring bank, payment facilitator, merchant acquirer, gateway or payment processor.
• Direct involvement in building or launching a new payments, acquiring or card-processing capability.
• Good understanding of card authorization, clearing, settlement, processing fees, refunds, chargebacks and fraud.
• Experience coordinating commercial, technical, operational and legal workstreams.
• Working knowledge of payment-security standards and partner due-diligence requirements.
• Strong project-management, negotiation, analytical and stakeholder-management skills.
• Ability to turn complex partner requirements into clear actions for internal teams.
• Comfortable building new processes in an environment where requirements are still developing.