Payments Banking Manager

About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments, and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth, and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 750,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships.

We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data, and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise, and global delivery capability. We are uniquely able to deliver tangible outcomes because of our broad range of services, solutions, and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X, and Song. These capabilities, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships.

We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners, and communities.

The Payments practice is a part of the Financial Services North America Banking Client Service Group, which provides consulting and outsourcing services to retail banking and payments clients throughout the U.S. and Canada. We serve more than 600 unique clients in 24 countries including banks, networks, merchants, and fin-techs, payment platforms. Accenture's North American Payments practice is responsible for driving Accenture's go-to-market strategies and offerings for our US and Canadian clients, bringing our best offerings and leveraging our global payment practices and experience.

These offerings include:

• Payment Innovation (e.g., digital payments, wallets, etc.)
• Card Issuing
• Retail Bank Payments
• Commercial Cash Management, B2B, Corporate, and Transaction Banking and Payments

As a Payments Consultant, you’ll be dedicated to helping clients by designing and delivering strategic solutions that achieve compliance, mitigate risks, and seize revenue growth opportunities.

• Develop world‑class business and technology solutions for Consumer and Commercial Payments clients across a wide range of payment methods.
• Conduct operating model assessments (people, process, org) and client needs assessments.
• Perform vendor assessment and due diligence of packaged platforms, e.g. Card platforms, Pricing & Profitability and Workflow solutions, Treasury Management portals.
• Participate in process design, requirements gathering, and functional design as part of Payments systems implementation engagements.
• Serve as a business architect during client engagements.
• Participate in the development of best‑in‑class, reusable assets.
• Participate in business development to originate new client opportunities.
• Must be willing to travel up to 80% (Monday‑Thursday).

• 5 + years of relevant experience in one or more specific payment areas in any of the following payment domains:

• Card:
  Private label, Credit, Online Debit, Offline Debit, Prepaid, ATM, Acquirer/Issuer
• Retail: P2P, Bill Payment, Mobile Payments, Electronic Bill Presentment, Micro Payments
• Electronic: ACH, Domestic Wire, International Wire, Fedwire/CHIPS, SWIFT
• Cash / Treasury Management:
  Sales, Relationship, Operations and/or Product Delivery

• 5 + years’ experience with consulting project delivery including managing or creating project deliverables, and managing projects within timelines and budgets within management consulting or industry experience within a large commercial bank or payment provider.

• Industry experience within Consumer, Commercial or new payment flows. Demonstrated business and technology expertise across the end‑to‑end payment life cycles and operating models.
• Successful track record of performing operating model design, business process design, and system functional design.
• Experience with vendor platforms enabling seamless…