Senior Treasury & Payments Transformation Lead

Sia

North Carolina

On-site

USD 150,000 - 155,000

Full time

14 days+

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Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision

Company-paid life and AD&D

401(k) with company match

HSA and FSA options

Paid parental leave; generous PTO

Job summary

Sia, a global management consulting group, seeks a Senior Manager for the Payments practice focused on treasury services and cash management transformation across banks, fintechs, and financial services. You’ll lead strategy, operating model design, process optimization, and end-to-end implementation—shaping platforms and vendor evaluations to meet client objectives.

Ideal candidates bring deep Treasury Services, Cash Management, and Payments knowledge, and a proven record advising senior

Qualifications

Education: Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Business or Engineering; master’s degree preferred.
10+ years of relevant experience across Financial Services, including significant management consulting, advisory, transformation, product strategy, or complex implementation experience within Treasury Services, Cash Management, Transaction Banking or Payments.
Consulting & Transformation Experience: Demonstrated experience advising clients or senior business stakeholders, structuring ambiguous problems, developing recommendations, designing future-state solutions and leading complex initiatives through implementation.
Treasury Domain Expertise: Direct working knowledge of Treasury Services and Cash Management products, digital experience, business models, processes and client needs across areas such as liquidity management, payments, receivables, account services, real‑time payments, commercial cards and working capital.
Transformation & Implementation Experience: Demonstrated experience designing, transforming, implementing or modernizing Treasury and Payments products, platforms, processes, operating models or capabilities.

Responsibilities

Demonstrate Treasury Services & Cash Management Expertise: Bring strong working knowledge of treasury and transaction banking products and services offered to corporate and commercial clients, including liquidity management, cash positioning, wires, ACH, lockbox, receivables, remote deposit capture, account structures, real-time payments, commercial cards and working capital solutions.
Lead Treasury Services Transformation & Implementation Delivery: Lead client engagements from strategy through execution, including current-state assessments, target operating model design, process transformation, platform selection, requirements definition, vendor integration, client onboarding, data migration, testing, implementation, and go-live.
Apply Knowledge of Treasury Platforms & Technology: Understand how banks design, configure, integrate, and modernize treasury and payments platforms, including onboarding workflows, entitlements, reporting, APIs, ISO 20022, SWIFT and NACHA formats, payments hubs, and integration with core banking and legacy environments.
Translate Product & Technology Concepts into Business Solutions: Explain complex treasury, payments, and technology concepts in a clear, practical way for senior business, product, operations, technology, risk, and regulatory stakeholders while translating strategic objectives into executable solutions and measurable business outcomes.
Navigate Regulatory, Risk & Control Considerations: Understand the regulatory and control environment surrounding treasury services and payments, including operational risk, fraud prevention, compliance, resiliency, data and security considerations, and relevant industry and regulatory requirements.
Shape Client Solutions & Delivery Approaches: Support clients in defining treasury and payments strategies, product roadmaps, business cases, operating models, implementation approaches, platform and vendor evaluations, RFPs, testing strategies, and adoption plans.
Drive Business Development: Identify, develop, and expand client opportunities through account knowledge, cross-selling, proposal development, commercial discussions, thought leadership, and relationship building across new and existing clients while contributing to originated and managed revenue targets.
Coach & Develop Teams: Lead multidisciplinary consulting teams, supervise, mentor, and evaluate consultants and managers, set clear goals, provide feedback, address team challenges, and contribute to recruiting and capability-building efforts.
Contribute to Firm Leadership: Share knowledge and best practices, strengthen Sia’s Treasury Services & Cash Management capabilities, support internal initiatives, represent Sia externally, and serve as a role model for consultants through professionalism, ownership, and leadership by example.