Senior Project Manager; Global ) Remote

My Global client are looking to recruit an experienced Senior Payments Project Manager on an initial 6 month contract to start ASAP. This role is fully remote and Inside IR35.

The ideal candidate will have the following experience:

• Deep understanding of payment gateway architecture and payment processing ecosystems.
• Knowledge of card acquiring, issuer networks, payment routing, tokenisation and digital wallets.
• Understanding of PCI DSS requirements and payment security standards.
• Familiarity with Strong Customer Authentication (SCA), PSD2, 3D Secure and regional payment regulations.
• Knowledge of fraud management tools and payment risk controls.
• Understanding of cross border payments and regional market payment preferences.
• Experience evaluating payment vendors and conducting option assessments, RFPs and strategic sourcing exercises.
• Understanding of Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) modelling for payment platforms.
• Previous experience delivering large scale payments, fintech, digital commerce, or financial technology projects.
• Proven experience leading end to end payment gateway, payment service provider (PSP), payment orchestration, or payment platform implementations.
• Experience working with global payment providers such as Cyber Source, Adyen, Adflex, Stripe, Worldpay, (url removed), Ingenico, Braintree, or similar.
• Demonstrable track record managing complex, multi country payment transformations across EMEA, Americas and APAC regions.
• Experience delivering projects involving payment processing, settlement, reconciliation, chargebacks, fraud prevention and order to cash processes.
• Strong understanding of eCommerce and omnichannel payment ecosystems.
• Experience managing third party payment vendors, commercial negotiations, contracts and implementation partners.
• Experience delivering technology and business change programmes involving ERP integration, preferably SAP 4
  
  HANA.
• Proven experience creating business cases, investment proposals and executive level recommendations for strategic technology decisions.
• Experience shaping target operating models and global capabilities rather than solely delivering predefined projects.
• Strong Project Management skills including RAID, Change Management, Vendor Management, Budget Controls, & Governance using Agile & Waterfall delivery methods.

This role is initially for 6 months and to start ASAP.