Programme Manager: FPS direct scheme participation

About Griffin

Hi, we’re Griffin! We’re the bank for companies who want to build and launch financial products.

We're rapidly heading towards a future where most of us access financial services through technology companies rather than high street banks. All sorts of companies are now embedding financial products into their apps and user journeys so that their customers can seamlessly make payments, manage expenses, take out loans, save, invest, and do more.

The problem is that companies are still dependent on legacy banking infrastructure if they want to offer regulated financial products. They need to either partner directly with an incumbent bank and/or stitch together middleware from various Banking as a Service (BaaS) providers. This process is slow, expensive, and complex and makes it very hard for companies to get new financial products off the ground.

At Griffin, we want to change this.

We want to make it easy for companies to bring finance to their customers at the point of greatest relevance. So, we built a bank.

But not just any bank! Griffin is a technology platform and a bank: fully regulated, API-first, developer-centric, and purpose-built to serve innovative fintechs and brands who want to build and embed financial products.

Our culture is our most important asset, and one of the ways we safeguard it is by being extremely intentional about hiring the right people. We won't hire people who don’t seem like a strong fit for our core values, even if they’re otherwise extremely qualified.

We also believe that smart, motivated, conscientious people thrive in high-trust, high-autonomy environments. That’s why we’re transparent by default, and we encourage open discussion and challenge across all levels of the organisation. We’re also remote-first, asynchronous, and fully flexible - because you're the expert on how and when you do your best work.

We're about to become a direct participant in the Faster Payments Service (FPS). This is one of our most important infrastructure projects this year.

We need someone to own this programme from start to finish. You'll take us from planning through to going live as a direct participant in 2026. That means coordinating across engineering, treasury, operations, legal, compliance, and our external partners (, Vocalink, Form3, and the Bank of England) to deliver the implementation program on time and on budget.

This is a hands on role. You'll be setting the pace, unblocking problems, and keeping everyone, internal and external, aligned on what needs to happen and when.

We're looking for someone who has:

• Managed payment scheme participation (FPS, Bacs, CHAPS or similar) or comparable regulatory infrastructure projects in UK banking
• Delivered technical programmes that cut across engineering, operations, treasury, and compliance, and kept them all moving together
• Worked directly with scheme bodies like , Vocalink, or the Bank of England, and understands their assurance processes, testing requirements, and timelines
• Led delivery in a small team or small firm
  , where you had to be strategic and hands on at the same time
• Built strong cross functional relationships with people who work differently to you, engineers, product managers, lawyers, treasury specialists, and external partners
• Strong fundamentals in resource planning, time management, risk management, and clear communication

We're remote first, so most of your colleagues won't be in the same office as you day to day. That means you should be comfortable picking up new tools for collaboration and communication, and you should genuinely enjoy writing. We document everything, and we care a lot about clarity and readability. You can read more about how we write here.

• You’ve done an FPS direct membership implementation before
• You’ve been involved in setting up Bank of England Reserve or Settlement Accounts
• You’re familiar with the FCA and PRA and how they work
• You’ve worked with Form3 or a similar payment gateway provider
• You have experience with sort code management and allocation

You’ll own the full programme to take us from indirect to…