Payments Banking Manager

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments, and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth, and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 750,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data, and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise, and global delivery capability.

About the role

The Payments practice is part of the Financial Services North America Banking Client Service Group, which provides 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, and fin-techs, payment platforms. Accenture's North American Payments practice drives go-to-market strategies and offerings for U.S. and Canadian clients, leveraging global payment practices and experience. These offerings include:

• Payment Innovation (e.g., digital payments, wallets, etc.)
• 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, org) and client needs assessments.
• Perform vendor assessment and due diligence of packaged platforms (e.g., Card platforms, Pricing & Profitability and 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

• 5+ 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
• 5+ 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

• 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 is preferred.
• 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, and requirements definition and analysis.
• Baseline understanding of the principles of technology.
• Requirements Analysis.
• Functional Design.

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.

Pay

Compensation varies based on office location, role, skill set, and level of experience. The following ranges are provided as required by local law:

• California: $94,400 to $293,800
• Cleveland: $87,400 to $235,000
• Colorado: $94,400 to $253,800
• District of Columbia: $100,500 to $270,300
• Illinois: $87,400 to $253,800
• Maine: $80,400 to $216,200
• Maryland: $94,400 to $253,800
• Massachusetts: $94,400 to $270,300
• Minnesota: $94,400 to $253,800
• New York: $87,400 to $293,800
• New Jersey: $100,500 to $293,800
• Virginia: $87,400 to $270,300
• Washington: $100,500 to $270,300

Schedule

Must be willing to travel up to 80% (Monday - Thursday).

Benefits

Accenture offers a market-competitive suite of benefits including:

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

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