Head of Payments – Core Banking and Payment Plaforms

Job title:

Head of Payments – Core Banking and Payment Plaforms

Company

Hydrogen Group

Job description

Head of Payments – Core Banking – Payments Platform

Our Financial Services client is looking for a Head of Payments to join them to lead the future of digital banking and play a pivotal role in driving innovation and success!

Reporting directly to the CIO, Core Banking and Payments, the Head of Payments will lead a dedicated product and platform development teams responsible for the creation, operation, and management of a successful identity, authentication, and authorisation platform and strategy. The role involves close collaboration with digital products leadership to formulate a roadmap supporting a unified, channel-agnostic identity capability.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop an enterprise customer identity strategy, establishing a persistent team for building, releasing, operating, and supporting the platform.
• Collaborate with third parties to maintain top quartile performance in service availability.
• Manage the financial and capacity portfolio with a focus on cost control, investment spend, and consistent methodology.
• Lead, motivate, and develop a high-performing team fostering a culture that aligns with the business purpose.
• Cultivate continuous improvement, flexibility, and effectiveness, promoting satisfaction among colleagues, customers, and the community.
• Ensure compliance with all legal, regulatory requirements, and cybersecurity plans.

Core Accountabilities:

• Oversee production stability, performance, uptime, and availability of Identity systems and platforms.
• Ensure delivery of the strategic roadmap for Identity, Authentication, and Authorization within budget and expected milestones.
• Maintain tight controls on finances, resource demand/supply, and drive high productivity.
• Lead the development of the domain technology strategy in line with Technology Design Standards

Experience & Knowledge: Experience:

• +10 years in senior Payments/core banking leadership roles
• Strong track record in leading change delivery with measurable results
• Business partnering and major transformation experience in the FS sector
• Broad understanding of technology principles, consumer identity technology, and UK payments and banking regulatory requirements.
• Detailed understanding of change methods, digital platforms, data strategy concepts, software development techniques, and Cloud computing/Open Banking strategies.
• Strong banking commercial skills in driving new revenues and optimizing cost
• Expertise in business and commercial insights, consulting, leadership, sales, relationship focus, networking, communication, personal resilience, managing change, continuous improvement, innovation, analysis, problem-solving, business acumen, managing risk, delivering results, and strategic focus.
• Resilient under pressure and challenging deadlines.
• Innovative, curious, calm, and balanced in all circumstances.
• Customer-focused, a developer of people, and a leadership role model.
• Quick grasp of complex information, a trusted business partner, and a strong stakeholder influencer.

If you have the above experience please submit your CV or reach out – eileenfletcher@hydrogengroup.com

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Expected salary

£150000 – 195000 per year

Location

Glasgow

Job date

Sun, 04 Feb 2024 06:47:55 GMT

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