Payments Manager Financial Services Strategy Consulting

Job Description

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

• 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, Fed Now, mobile payments, and other payment types.
• 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 creating 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, Master Card, American Express, and other Association guidelines and best practices.
• Enable client delivery with project management best practices, particularly using the Scaled Agile Framework.

• 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.

• 7+ years of experience working in a Payments‑related organization (Issuer, Acquirer, Fin Tech, or Payments‑related role within your organization).
• Prior management consulting experience.
• A bachelor’s degree in Finance, Business Management, or a related field from an accredited college/university is required (master’s is preferred).
• Deep understanding of payment regulations and related issues affecting financial services organizations in the U.S.
• Experience leading product implementations, developing requirements and user stories, and advising leadership on industry trends and best practices.
• Experience with Mastercard solutions including but not limited to Mastercard API capabilities and Mastercard’s Ethoca solution.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to convey complex concepts to senior executives.
• Project management skills, with experience overseeing payment initiatives and coordinating cross‑functional teams.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office (Excel, PowerPoint, Word).

• Experience working as a Product Manager within Financial Services and/or Payments organization.
• Experience with the Scaled Agile Framework.
• Experience using Agile Tools (Rally, Jira, Confluence, ADO, etc.).

• Annual base salary starting at 115,000K, commensurate with experience and qualifications.
• Annual performance‑based discretionary bonus.

• 3 Medical plans.
• Dental and Vision.
• Life, AD&D and other voluntary insurance.

• 401K retirement plan.
• 4% matching and 100% vested upon enrollment.
• Health Savings Account (HSA).
• Flexible Spending Account (FSA).
• Health, Dependent Care, Commuter.

• 100% paid parental leave for all new parents with eligible tenure.
• Building Healthy Families program if enrolled through Medical plan.

• Generous Paid Time Off (PTO) policy.
• 9 company holidays plus 1 floating holiday.

• College savings and student loan repayment assistance.
• Monthly cell phone stipend.
• Access to wellness programs at no cost if enrolled through Medical plan:
  • Gym membership reimbursement.
  • Live Health Online…