Chief Payment Officer - National Trust Bank

Job description Company and benefits

Job IDCHIEF
020162

Employment Type

Regular Work  Style remote Location Lowell ,MA,United States, United States Role Chief  Payment Officer - National Trust Bank Why UKG:

At UKG, the work you do matters. The code you ship, the decisions you make, and the care you show a customer all add up to real impact. Today, tens of millions of workers start and end their days with our workforce operating platform. Helping people get paid, grow in their careers, and shape the future of their industries. That’s what we do.

We never stop learning. We never stop challenging the norm. We push for better, and we celebrate the wins along the way. Here, you’ll get flexibility that’s real, benefits you can count on, and a team that succeeds together. Because at UKG, your work matters—and so do you.

The UKG National Trust Bank (UKG NTB) Chief Payment Officer (CPO) is a senior executive responsible for leading money movement payments demonstrating operational excellence, delivering strategic, scalable technology driven product vision towards transformation, and executing customer-centric focus with cross-collaboration across the organization. This leadership role possesses experience ensuring regulatory compliance with the UKG NTB fiduciary powers OCC charter, delivering money movement strategy, platform system experience to enhance money movement operations for UKG U.S. Pro and Ready platforms and automation (API, AI & Cloud) payment rail technology integration.

This role will bring technological vision, product development and excellence, ensuring accurate and secure execution of all money movement activities, including payroll processing, taxes, collections and reconciliation. The CPO, as a member of the UKG NTB leadership team, plays a key role in developing and implementing strategies to optimize payment flows, mitigate operational risks, and manage relationships with our internal stakeholders.

The CPO develops and leads an operations team with daily vision and through a technology lens of current regulatory and risk management processes, future products and systems that automate internal controls, increase efficiency, security, and align with the overall business objective of supporting UKG Pro and Ready today and into the future.

Key Responsibilities:

Leading and Managing Money Movement Operations Lead the money movement team responsible for U.S. Pro and Ready platforms. The payment operations, tax, collections and reconciliations move approximately $350 billion annually. Manage a remote team, providing hands-on support to processes and products to be compliant with OCC bank and fiduciary powers.

Member of UKG NTB Management Team Join the management team working collaboratively to define, develop and achieve strategic money movement goals. As a member of the management committees, provide expertise in payment operations, strategic vision, technological product solutions, intercompany relationships and systems knowledge. As the leader of money movement operations, manage the flow of funds, ensure compliance with OCC requirements and continually enhance systems and controls.

Risk Management Ensure compliance with OCC regulations and mitigate operational risks related to payment processing. Relevant compliance experience to contribute to TPRM, compliance risk management, AML, product development and change management.

Enhance Payment Solutions Bring 15+ years of demonstrated experience in money movement operations, systems, architecture and technology transformations. Collaborate with NTB management, and UKG to identify enhanced payment capabilities and support integration into the company's systems. Drive the implementation of solutions to optimize payment flows, enhance…