Banking Payments Senior Manager

Accenture helps the world’s leading enterprises reinvent by building their digital core and unleashing the power of AI to create value at speed for organizations across industries. Our strategy is to be the reinvention partner of choice for our clients, leading in the safe, widespread adoption of AI, and to be the most client-focused, AI-enabled, great place to work in the world. We bring together the talent of our approximately 799,000 people with proprietary assets and platforms, deep process and industry expertise, and leading ecosystem relationships to deliver end-to-end solutions and measurable outcomes at scale.

In Strategy & Consulting, we work with C-suite executives, leaders, and boards of the world’s leading organizations, helping them reinvent every part of their enterprise to drive greater growth, enhance competitiveness, implement operational improvements, reduce cost, deliver sustainable 360° stakeholder value, and set a new performance frontier for themselves and their industry. Our deep industry and functional expertise is supported by proprietary assets and solutions that help organizations transform faster and become more resilient. Underpinned by technology, data, analytics, AI, change management, talent, and sustainability capabilities, our Strategy & Consulting services help architect and accelerate all aspects of an organization’s total enterprise reinvention.

About the role

The Payments practice is part of the Financial Services North America Banking Client Service Group, providing consulting and outsourcing services to retail banking and payments clients throughout the U.S. and Canada. We serve more than 600 unique clients in 24 countries, including banks, networks, merchants, fin-techs, and payment platforms. Accenture's North American Payments practice drives go-to-market strategies and offerings for our U.S. and Canadian clients, leveraging global payment practices and experience. These offerings include:

• Payment Innovation (e.g., digital payments, wallets)
• Card Issuing
• Retail Bank Payments
• Commercial Cash Management, B2B, Corporate, and Transaction Banking and Payments

As a Payments Consultant, you’ll design and deliver strategic solutions that achieve compliance, mitigate risks, and seize revenue growth opportunities for Consumer and Commercial Payments clients.

Responsibilities

• Develop world-class business and technology solutions for Consumer and Commercial Payments clients across a wide range of payment methods.
• Conduct operating model assessments (people, process, organization) and client needs assessments.
• Perform vendor assessment and due diligence of packaged platforms (e.g., Card platforms, Pricing & Profitability, Workflow solutions, Treasury Management portals).
• Participate in process design, requirements gathering, and functional design as part of Payments systems implementation engagements.
• Serve as a business architect during client engagements.
• Participate in the development of best-in-class, reusable assets.
• Participate in business development to originate new client opportunities.
• Must be willing to travel up to 80% (Monday - Thursday).

Requirements

• 10+ years of relevant experience in one or more specific payment areas in any of the following payment domains:
  • Card: Private label, Credit, Online Debit, Offline Debit, Prepaid, ATM, Acquirer/Issuer
  • Retail: P2P, Bill Payment, Mobile Payments, Electronic Bill Presentment, Micro Payments
  • Electronic: ACH, Domestic Wire, International Wire, Fedwire/CHIPS, SWIFT
  • Cash / Treasury Management: Sales, Relationship, Operations and/or Product Delivery
• 10+ years’ experience with consulting project delivery, including managing or creating project deliverables and managing projects within timelines and budgets within management consulting or industry experience within a large commercial bank or payment provider.

Qualifications

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with multiple credit card implementations for consumer or commercial card issuers.
• Complex program/transformation delivery, including PMO, value management, and/or change management.
• Credit card operating model advisory for issuers.
• Use of AI tools to de-risk and accelerate testing and conversions.
• Industry experience within Consumer, Commercial, or new payment flows.
• Demonstrated business and technology expertise across the end-to-end payment lifecycles and operating models.
• Successful track record of performing operating model design, business process design, and system functional design.
• Experience with vendor platforms enabling seamless delivery of payments products.
• Ability to develop and manage relationships with client management.
• Payments industry expertise in alternative/emerging payments.
• Understanding of end-to-end payments lifecycle.
• Business Architecture applied in solution planning, requirements definition, and analysis.
• Baseline understanding of the principles of technology.

Skills

• Proven ability to work independently and as a team member.
• Proven ability to work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment.
• Excellent leadership, communication (written and oral), and interpersonal skills.
• Requirements Analysis.
• Functional Design.

Pay

Compensation at Accenture varies depending on a wide array of factors, including but not limited to the specific office location, role, skill set, and level of experience. The following ranges are provided as required by local law:

• California: $132,500 to $338,300
• Cleveland: $122,700 to $270,600
• Colorado: $132,500 to $292,200
• District of Columbia: $141,100 to $311,200
• Illinois: $122,700 to $292,200
• Maine: $112,900 to $249,000
• Maryland: $132,500 to $292,200
• Massachusetts: $132,500 to $311,200
• Minnesota: $132,500 to $292,200
• New York: $122,700 to $338,300
• New Jersey: $141,100 to $338,300
• Virginia: $122,700 to $311,200
• Washington: $141,100 to $311,200

Benefits

Accenture offers a market-competitive suite of benefits including:

• Medical, dental, vision, life, and long-term disability coverage.
• A 401(k) plan.
• Bonus opportunities.
• Paid holidays and paid time off.

See more information on our benefits here.