Payment Infrastructure Senior Manager

The Role:

• Leading the design and delivery of all work on Payment Infrastructure-related risk in the 2nd line, using technical payments knowledge to drive inputs to Risk LT and external reporting to Regulators
• Reporting to the Board and Leadership Team to ensure understanding of the key Payment Infrastructure risks and setting the mitigation strategies to reduce risk exposure, and providing high quality outputs and opinions, written and verbal, on all areas of relevant Payment Infrastructure risk to senior leaders
• Leading the creation and oversight of the Payment Infrastructure risk monitoring and assurance plan, ensuring delivery of team activities in line with methodology and standards and within timescales
• Providing expert opinion and direction, guidance, and support in the oversight and independent challenge of the 1st line of defence teams to ensure relevant risks are identified, documented, measured, monitored, and mitigated both in the BAU and Change environments
• Ensuring that resiliency is baked into our thinking when providing risk-based assessment of system/tooling choices in payment-related disciplines across the Bank
• Providing clear direction and purpose regarding Payment Infrastructure risk management to the organisation alongside mentoring and supporting managers within the bank to execute their own responsibilities
• Keeping up to speed with advances in all payment-related regulations and standards and ensuring this insight is utilised to mitigate potential risks in the Payments environment

The Candidate:

• Proven significant experience of Payment (risk) management within Financial Services
• Demonstrable awareness and knowledge of the UK Payments industry landscape
• Evident knowledge and experience in payment-related fields of expertise (e.g., technology, cyber, change risk, and operational resilience)
• Confidence in communicating at senior management and executive level, and highly developed stakeholder management expertise
• Excellent advisory, negotiating, and influencing skills; able to effectively change the views of others to achieve risk objectives
• Highly experienced in identifying opportunities for improvement in ways of working and processes and delivering changes required, and ability to demonstrate a strategic mindset and understanding of the bigger picture
• Strong knowledge and experience with redesigning processes, quality management, Six Sigma techniques, and Agile methodology
• Extensive audit and assurance experience