Project manager in payments

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• Independently lead high-complexity, business-critical payments initiatives from discovery and scoping through execution, rollout, stabilisation and closure.
• Define the problem, intended outcomes, scope boundaries and delivery approach with sponsors and functional owners; assess options and recommend a practical implementation strategy.
• Ensure changes address the end-to-end payment flow and downstream Finance and operational impacts, rather than optimising individual workstreams in isolation.
• Develop project charters and business cases with clear objectives, measurable success criteria, expected benefits, assumptions, resource needs and cost estimates where applicable.
• Translate business, operational and technical requirements into an integrated delivery plan covering workstreams, milestones, critical-path dependencies, accountable owners and acceptance criteria.
• Secure delivery commitments across teams, validate capacity and sequencing, and align plans with FinTech and other teams’ roadmaps and planning cycles.
• Drive delivery against agreed scope, timelines, quality and budget where applicable; hold workstream owners accountable for commitments and actively resolve impediments.
• Maintain an actionable view of risks, assumptions, issues and dependencies, with named owners, mitigations and escalation triggers.
• Challenge unrealistic plans, anticipate cross-team impacts and propose recovery actions when delivery is at risk.
• Assess scope changes and present the implications for value, cost, timing and risk, securing the appropriate decisions before rebaselining plans.
• Establish proportionate governance with clear sponsorship, decision rights, responsibilities, working groups and escalation routes.
• Lead project and steering forums that resolve issues and secure decisions; maintain clear decision and action logs.
• Communicate concise, evidence-based updates to senior stakeholders, including Senior Managers and Directors, distinguishing progress from risks, trade-offs and decisions required.
• Build alignment across Finance, FinTech and business stakeholders, constructively challenge competing priorities and secure agreement on shared outcomes.
• Coordinate assessment of impacts on payout execution, reconciliation, accounting, cash management, exception handling, recovery and controls with the relevant functional owners.
• Ensure business and operational requirements are reflected in solution design and testing; coordinate business validation and user acceptance testing with clear ownership and acceptance criteria.
• Lead readiness planning across processes, systems, people, controls, reporting and support, ensuring that residual risks and manual workarounds are understood and accepted by the appropriate owners.
• Coordinate pilots, phased rollouts and cutover plans, with go/no-go criteria, contingency arrangements and accountable decision-makers.
• Drive post-launch stabilisation and issue resolution, followed by documented handover to business-as-usual owners, including procedures, training, support arrangements and outstanding actions.
• Agree baseline measures and target outcomes with business owners, and track delivery and benefits beyond launch.
• Select relevant measures for each project, such as payout timeliness and accuracy, reconciliation exceptions, manual processing effort, operational incidents, financial exposure and partner impact.
• Lead stakeholder impact assessments, communication and adoption planning so that teams can operate the new capabilities effectively.
• Complete project closure and lessons learned, and translate findings into improvements to delivery practices and operational processes.
• Support the Program Management function with consistent project standards, portfolio reporting and visibility of resource constraints, risks and cross-project dependencies.
• Identify conflicts, synergies and sequencing opportunities across payments and broader Finance O2C initiatives, and provide evidence-based recommendations for prioritisation.

• Bachelor’s degree.
• 5–8 years of relevant project management experience, with demonstrated independent ownership of complex, cross-functional initiatives through implementation and operational handover.
• Demonstrated experience delivering payments-related projects involving payment operations, partner or merchant payouts, settlement, reconciliation or related financial processes.
• Experience working across Finance, operational and technology teams in a large, international organisation.
• Strong command of project planning, governance, risk and dependency management, change control, resource planning and benefits tracking.
• Working understanding of end-to-end payment flows and their operational and financial implications; able to translate specialist input into clear requirements, risks and delivery decisions.
• Ability to lead multidisciplinary project teams and influence senior stakeholders without relying on formal authority.
• Strong analytical judgement: uses quantitative and qualitative evidence to evaluate options, challenge assumptions and make recommendations.
• Clear written and verbal communication, strong workshop facilitation and the ability to turn complex topics into actionable decisions.
• Ability to operate with limited supervision, manage ambiguity and competing priorities, and remain hands-on in resolving delivery problems.
• Будет плюсом: Experience with global payments rollouts, changes to payment or payout models, or payment operations transformation; Familiarity with Finance O2C processes and the interfaces between payments, Treasury, Accounting, Tax and Risk; Experience delivering change alongside Product and Engineering teams using Agile or hybrid delivery approaches; Experience with Jira and Confluence; PMP, Agile project management or equivalent certification

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