Job description

Role Overview:

We are seeking a Manager, Payments with experience in Financial Services and Payments (FinTech). This specialist will work closely with our Sia colleagues and clients’ payments and FinTech teams, leading cross-functional regulatory remediation initiatives, develop solutions to optimize payment activities and products, and participate in business development initiatives.

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide expert guidance on U.S. payment regulations affecting electronic transactions including but not limited to credit, debit, EBT, ACH, Prepaid, BNPL, Crypto Currencies, RTP, FedNow, mobile payments, and other payment types.
• Ability to understand and interpret PCI DSS, KYC and AML, PSD2, SOC 2, OFAC, FinCEN, and FATF regulations and impacts on clients
• Assess and interpret emerging regulatory trends, supervisory expectations, and enforcement actions to develop compliance strategies
• Support clients in creation of product pipelines, product requirements and user stories, product road maps, and high level strategic planning
• Develop regulatory frameworks, compliance programs, and internal policies to align with industry best practices
• Stay abreast of VISA, MasterCard, American Express, and other Association guidelines and best practices
• Enable client delivery with project management best practices, particularly using the Scaled Agile Framework

Project & Client Management

• Collaborate with internal and client project team members, and contribute to internal communications and readiness activity within the program team and with client groups
• Manage multiple consulting engagements, ensuring on-time and high-quality deliverables
• Provide status reporting of progress, dependencies, issues, risks and overall program health to Senior Management
• Lead cross-functional teams and collaborate with clients to drive project execution
• Support business development by contributing to proposals, client presentations, and thought leadership