Project Manager / Business Analyst – Payments Transformation in London

Location: London

Working Model: Hybrid

We are seeking experienced Payments Project Managers and Business Analysts to support the delivery of a significant portfolio of banking payments initiatives. The successful candidates will bring hands-on experience delivering payment products, platforms, and regulatory or operational change within banking environments. This role is suited to individuals who can quickly understand complex payment ecosystems, engage effectively with business and technology stakeholders, and drive delivery across fraud monitoring, sanctions screening, card processing, tokenisation, account switching, and domestic and international payment schemes. The priority is practical delivery experience. Candidates must be able to hit the ground running, operate with limited ramp-up time, and contribute immediately to high-profile payments programmes.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead or support the delivery of complex payments-related initiatives across banking environments, ensuring outcomes are delivered to agreed scope, timelines, and quality standards.
• Work with business, technology, operations, risk, compliance, and third-party vendor teams to define requirements, manage dependencies, and resolve delivery risks.
• Support integration activity with fraud monitoring platforms, including solutions such as Featurespace, where relevant.
• Support integration with sanctions screening products and related financial crime controls.
• Contribute to end-to-end debit card processing initiatives, including Visa card processing and associated operational processes.
• Support the implementation of tokenised payment solutions, including Apple Pay and Google Pay.
• Lead or support Current Account Switching Service initiatives, including the implementation of CASS for a banking institution.
• Translate business needs into clear delivery plans, business requirements, functional specifications, process models, test scenarios, and implementation artefacts.
• Ensure delivery approaches reflect relevant payment scheme requirements, operational impacts, controls, and customer outcomes.
• Work confidently across UK domestic payment schemes, including Faster Payments Service — FPS, CHAPS, and Bacs, as well as SEPA and international payments.
• Apply knowledge of ISO 20022 messaging standards to support requirements definition, impact assessment, testing, and implementation planning.
• Identify delivery risks, issues, assumptions, and dependencies, escalating where required with clear options and recommendations.

Required Skills and Experience

• Proven experience working within banking or financial services environments, ideally with direct responsibility for delivering payments-related products, platforms, or change initiatives.
• Strong knowledge of payment operations, payment schemes, and end-to-end payment processing.
• Demonstrable experience in one or more of the following areas:

• Financial crime-related payment initiatives.
• Fraud monitoring application integration.
• Sanctions screening product integration.
• Debit card processing, including Visa card processing.
• Tokenised payment solutions, including Apple Pay and Google Pay.
• Current Account Switching Service implementation.

How We Work:

Delta Capita is an equal opportunity employer. We positively encourage applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of age, colour, disability, national origin, ancestry, race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, veteran status, genetic information, or any other status protected by applicable law. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. If you require any reasonable adjustments through your interview process, please use the designated space within the application questionnaire. This is a Permanent/Fixed Term Contract position located in London. As the selection and interview process is ongoing, please submit your application in English as soon as possible; if your profile is selected, a member of our team will contact you within 4 weeks. For this role, a valid working permit for the UK is mandatory.

Who We Are:

Delta Capita Group (a member of the Prytek Group) is a global managed services, consulting, and solutions provider with a unique combination of experience in Financial Services and technology innovation capability. Our mission is to reinvent the financial services value chain providing technology-based mutualised services for financial institutions for non-differentiating services.