Job Description:
This is a 12 – month contract
Our client is seeking a heavyweight Strategic Card & Payments Expert to steer the financial and operational integrity of Project Card—a major transformation initiative.
Key Responsibilities
- Strategic Advisory: Provide executive-level guidance across card, merchant acquiring, scheme processing, and settlement structures.
- Financial Integrity & Revenue Assurance: Oversee and validate auditable outcomes across card finance, billing, interchange, Net Interchange Revenue (NIR), and revenue-share models.
- Control Oversight: Challenge solution designs and processing assumptions to ensure robust reconciliation integrity between finance and reporting.
- Risk Mitigation: Identify material processing gaps, control weaknesses, and reconciliation exposures, delivering sustainable remediation plans.
- Stakeholder Enablement: Guide and upskill executive stakeholders, architecture, and delivery teams on leading card practices.
Minimum Requirements
- Industry Experience: Extensive, senior-level experience within the cards and payments ecosystem.
- Domain Expertise: Proven track record in card finance, complex reconciliations, merchant acquiring, and card schemes (Visa/Mastercard).
- Technical & Risk Acumen: Deep understanding of revenue assurance, settlement flows, and establishing financial controls within a major programme lifecycle.
- Stakeholder Management: Demonstrated ability to challenge technical assumptions and influence executive-level stakeholders.