Acquiring Sponsorship Manager - BIN Sponsorship

Huntington National Bank; Columbus (OH); On-site; USD 70,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance coverage

Wellness program

Retirement savings plan

Paid leave programs

Paid holidays

Paid time off (PTO)

Job summary

A leading financial institution in Columbus, Ohio, seeks a risk management professional to oversee day-to-day operations in the Platform Sponsorship Program. You'll perform due diligence, manage operational risks, and collaborate across teams to enhance client onboarding. Candidates should have extensive experience in merchant acquiring and operational risk management. This role offers flexibility in workplace arrangement, competitive compensation up to $140,000 annually, and benefits including health insurance and retirement plans.

Qualifications

• 5 years of merchant acquiring experience working at a sponsor bank or managing sponsor bank relationships.
• 5 years of operational risk management and payments experience.
• Strong process orientation and risk management skills.

Responsibilities

• Perform upfront due diligence reviews, including policy review and approval.
• Enhance and streamline the onboarding client experience.
• Collaborate with risk partners to manage risk effectively.

Skills

Merchant acquiring experience

Operational risk management

Problem-solving skills

Interpersonal skills

Analytical skills

Education

Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent work experience

Tools

MS Office Suite

Job description

Summary

As part of the Platform Sponsorship Program, this role plays a key part of the smooth running of day-to-day risk oversight functions for sponsored entities, including upfront onboarding of new opportunities, due diligence, ongoing monitoring and annual onsite reviews.

Description

The individual will be part of the Enterprise Payments 1st Line of Defense risk team and will ensure appropriate governance, oversight and risk management policies and procedures are implemented and followed.

Reporting directly to the Senior Segment Risk Manager, you will join a group of dedicated professionals focused on creating the best in class client experience, product offerings and streamlined delivery of products, services and features. The scope of clients includes direct merchants (small businesses as well as large mid-market clients) as well as sponsored clients like independent sales organizations (ISOs)/payment facilitators (PFs). As a leader, you will have deep knowledge of the sponsorship acquiring and issuing models and associated products and services. You will participate in strategy development and go to market meetings, partner with key stakeholders across the 2nd line of risk teams and manage client interactions during the governance process.

Essential Job Functions

• Perform upfront due diligence reviews, including credit, FCG and risk policy review and approval
• Determine lessons learned from onboarding a variety of clients to continue to enhance and streamline the end-to-end client experience
• On a day-to-day basis, collaborate and partner with various risk partners and stakeholders across HNAB, including the 2nd LOD Risk, Enterprise Fraud, InfoSec, Third Party Relationship Management and 3rd LOD to effectively manage risk.
• Support the Platform Sponsorship Program on activities to identify, measure, monitor, manage and report operational related risks (fraud, infosec/ cyber, model, third party)
• Accountable in assisting the Segment and serve as a subject matter expert by advising and guiding operational risk initiatives, developing and monitoring KRI’s/ KPI’s, working with the segment to proactively self-identify operational risks and issues
• Support risk identification, measurement and mitigation for new product and services leveraging best practices
• Strong process orientation and problem-solving skills with an emphasis on risk management

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent work experience
• 5 years of merchant acquiring experience working at a sponsor bank or managing the sponsor bank relationship with clients
• 5 years of Operational risk management and payments experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Understanding of Visa, Mastercard, American Express and Discover rules and regulations
• Experience with card brand bank sponsorship on site audit processes
• Demonstrated ability to build and manage new policies, procedures and teams
• Experience working directly with sponsor banks in the merchant acquiring business
• Expertise in merchant acquiring credit and risk management and creating and managing merchant acquiring credit and risk policies
• Knowledge of merchant boarding systems and processes and risk systems
• Sponsor bank experience
• Holds self and others accountable for meeting commitments by setting and clearly communicating expectations and roles and responsibilities relative to operational risk within Enterprise Payments
• Superior organization, project management and analytical skills and attention to detail
• High-level of commitment to quality work product and organizational ethics, integrity and compliance
• Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to effectively communicate, both written and verbal
• Ability to deal with ambiguity, multi-task and work effectively in a fast-paced environment
• Demonstrated decision making and problem-solving skills to build shared agenda and drive results through collaboration
• Ability to build a team, appropriately delegate and meet deadlines with minimal supervision
• Proficiency in MS Office Suite

Exempt Status

Exempt Status: Yes (not eligible for overtime pay)

Workplace Type

Office. Our Approach to Office Workplace Type: Certain positions outside our branch network may be eligible for a flexible work arrangement. We’re combining the best of both worlds: in‑office and work from home. Our approach enables our teams to deepen connections, maintain a strong community, and do their best work. Remote roles will also have the opportunity to come together in our offices for moments that matter. Specific work arrangements will be provided by the hiring team.

Compensation Range

$70,000 – $140,000 Annual Salary. The compensation range represents the low and high end of the base compensation range for this position. Actual compensation will vary and may be above or below the range based on various factors including but not limited to location, experience, and performance. Colleagues in this position are also eligible to participate in an applicable incentive compensation plan. In addition, Huntington provides a variety of benefits to colleagues, including health insurance coverage, wellness program, life and disability insurance, retirement savings plan, paid leave programs, paid holidays and paid time off (PTO).

Huntington is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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