senior payments professional with deep experience in relevant areas
Requirements:
Provide strategic guidance for establishing merchant services relationship with a commercial bank
Define the target operating model
Lead key workstreams with internal stakeholders and external partners
Ensure relationship setup preserves optionality for future direct relationships with payment gateways/processors
Job description
We are seeking an experienced contract consultant to provide strategic guidance, structure, and execution support as we establish a new merchant services relationship with a commercial bank (e.g., acquiring/sponsorship, settlement, and processing model) for debit card acceptance, and eventually adding credit card acceptance. This individual will help define the target operating model, lead key workstreams with internal stakeholders and external partners, and ensure the relationship is set up in a way that preserves optionality for a future direct relationship with payment gateways/processors.
This is a contract engagement suited for a senior payments professional with deep experience across merchant acquiring, bank sponsorship, gateway/processor integrations, card network rules, settlement/reconciliation, disputes, PCI, risk/compliance, operating model design, and vendor/contract strategy.
Must haves: Commercial Bank experience, gateway experience, repayments experience
