Senior Payments Manager

Location: Remote
Type: Permanent
Salary: £60,000 - £70,000 Per Annum (+ bonus & benefits )

Our client is a market leading household name, who offer a wide range of products across financial services, insurance and multiple other business lines. They are keen to hire a payments professional to join and lead their payments team, and take ownership of the end to end payments journey in this (largely subscription based) business. This is a fantastic opportunity to join a market leading brand in a highly visible role, with superb career opportunities. 

The role:

• take ownership of the end to end payments acceptance flow - own, monitor & improve processes to maximise revenue assurance
• assume responsibility for payment related churn, as the internal SME on card & direct debit payments
• lead & manage the 4-strong payments team
• manage & lead all supplier selection & relationships, focused on improvement
• develop & improve the pay-fail rates & pay-fail processes
• work closely with the leadership team to set & manage the payment strategy, drive the change agenda
• ensure full regulatory compliance with relevant schemes & guidelines

About you:

• analytically confident, able to analyse large data sets & identify issues/trends
• highly numerate, financially accurate & a high level of commercial awareness
• proven experience in large scale payments (preferably subscription based) projects, with a background of driving operational improvement
• excellent payments industry knowledge & technical understanding of direct debit & card collections (AUDDIS, DD)
• knowledge of regulatory & legal requirements 
• ability to manage and lead a team 
• confident communicator, able to present and take ownership of issues