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Programme Manager – Payments & Banking Operations

£700 – £800

emagine is a high-end professional services consultancy and solutions firm Specialising in providing business and technology services to the financial services sector, we power progress, solve challenges and deliver real results through tailored high-end consulting services and solutions.

We have created a culture of openness and integrity by building genuine and strong relationships and partnerships, enabling us to be uncompromising in our dedication in delivering the optimal service for our clients. Our commitment is not just towards our clients but we aim to foster a positive and equitable working environment with our consultants and colleagues which stems from our core values: Confident, Dedicated, Responsible, Genuine.

We are seeking an experienced Operations Programme Manager to lead and deliver large-scale change initiatives across payments and wider banking operations. This role will oversee the end-to-end management of complex, multi-stream programmes, ensuring alignment with strategic priorities and regulatory requirements. The ideal candidate will bring a strong blend of payments expertise (including PSD, PSR), reconciliations and knowledge of collateral management within a financial services environment.

• Lead the delivery of large-scale programmes from initiation through closure, ensuring alignment with strategic objectives and operational needs.
• Establish and maintain robust governance frameworks, including steering committees, working groups, and senior stakeholder engagement.
• Manage interdependencies, risks, and issues across multiple workstreams, ensuring proactive resolution and delivery assurance.
• Drive change across domestic and cross-border payment systems (e.g. SWIFT, SEPA, CHAPS, Faster Payments) and ensure alignment with PSD and PSR regulatory requirements.
• Oversee reconciliations transformation initiatives, including Intellimatch implementation, optimisation, and operational adoption.
• Deliver collateral management process and system enhancements, improving efficiency, accuracy, and regulatory compliance.
• Manage operational readiness, migration, and integration for new platforms, processes, and control frameworks.
• Support enhancements to operational processes across trade settlement, cash management, and reference data.
• Collaborate with senior stakeholders to shape the delivery roadmap, prioritise initiatives, and track benefits realisation.
• Ensure all programme documentation and artefacts meet quality, compliance, and audit standards.

Programme Manager – Payments & Banking Operations
London (Hybrid)
£700 – £800
emagine is a high-end professional services consultancy and solutions firm Specialising in providing business and technology services to the financial services sector, we power progress, solve challenges and deliver real results through tailored high-end consulting services and solutions.
We have created a culture of openness and integrity by building genuine and strong relationships and partnerships, enabling us to be uncompromising in our dedication in delivering the optimal service for our clients. Our commitment is not just towards our clients but we aim to foster a positive and equitable working environment with our consultants and colleagues which stems from our core values: Confident, Dedicated, Responsible, Genuine.
We are seeking an experienced Operations Programme Manager to lead and deliver large-scale change initiatives across payments and wider banking operations. This role will oversee the end-to-end management of complex, multi-stream programmes, ensuring alignment with strategic priorities and regulatory requirements. The ideal candidate will bring a strong blend of payments expertise (including PSD, PSR), reconciliations and knowledge of collateral management within a financial services environment.
The Role:

• Lead the delivery of large-scale programmes from initiation through closure, ensuring alignment with strategic objectives and operational needs.
• Establish and maintain robust governance frameworks, including steering committees, working groups, and senior stakeholder engagement.
• Manage interdependencies, risks, and issues across multiple workstreams, ensuring proactive resolution and delivery assurance.
• Drive change across domestic and cross-border payment systems (e.g. SWIFT, SEPA, CHAPS, Faster Payments) and ensure alignment with PSD and PSR regulatory requirements.
• Oversee reconciliations transformation initiatives, including Intellimatch implementation, optimisation, and operational adoption.
• Deliver collateral management process and system enhancements, improving efficiency, accuracy, and regulatory compliance.
• Manage operational readiness, migration, and integration for new platforms, processes, and control frameworks.
• Support enhancements to operational processes across trade settlement, cash management, and reference data.
• Collaborate with senior stakeholders to shape the delivery roadmap, prioritise initiatives, and track benefits realisation.
• Ensure all programme documentation and artefacts meet quality, compliance, and audit standards.

Key Skills and Experience:
To succeed in this role, you will need:

• Proven experience as a Programme Manager in financial services, leading complex, cross-functional operations programmes.
• Strong expertise in payments operations, including domestic and cross-border systems, payment messaging standards, and settlement processes.
• Knowledge of PSD and PSR regulatory frameworks.
• Experience in reconciliations management and related platforms, with Intellimatch strongly preferred.
• Exposure to collateral management processes and operational change.
• Background in delivering operational and regulatory change across banking operations.
• Experience managing budgets, resources, and delivery timelines in a multi-project environment.
• Excellent stakeholder engagement skills with proven ability to influence at senior levels.
• Familiarity with Agile and hybrid delivery models.
• Experience working across multiple legal entities, jurisdictions, and currencies.
• Knowledge of wider operational areas such as trade lifecycle events, transaction reporting, and operational risk management.

Our people
The ideal consultants will share our values and be aligned with our ways of working and as your career progresses, you can expect to work across all areas of the project lifecycle, from strategy to implementation. This will provide you with a broad base of experience from which to build an outstanding career.
The ideal consultants will share our values and be aligned with our ways of working and as your career progresses, you can expect to work across all areas of the project lifecycle.
We pride ourselves on;

• Providing our people with a supportive culture, rooted in our values and driven by our purpose.
• Promoting a culture of inclusion, collaboration, well-being, and learning and development.
• Providing increased agility and flexibility within our hybrid working model
• Investing in employees’ growth through ongoing training and development
• Autonomy to take ownership of projects, making decisions and demonstrating individual expertise
• Providing an transparent performance and career management experience.

Our consultants are integral to delivering successful consulting engagements, addressing our clients’ most pressing business challenges, and build lasting value in disciplines such as:

• Solve sophisticated, ambiguous business, change and technology problems, bringing structure and meticulous analysis and planning, acting, and taking decisions with little strategic direction
• Build, develop and sustain trusted senior client relationships in the C-suite by remaining highly attuned to client needs
• Drive, enable and support the business, partnering with our leaders, clients, and consultants across our practices to take the best of emagine to our clients through opportunity identification/qualification, solution development/presentation

Interested?
At emagine, we are committed to building an international and diverse team by embracing our different backgrounds.
If you are up to the challenge and would like to find out more, get in touch with us immediately, our internal recruitment team is always keen to hear from dynamic individuals that are looking to further their career and explore their full potential.
“emagine is an equal opportunity employer, and employment practices are based strictly on merit. It is the policy of the Company to give equal opportunity in employment regardless of sex, sexual orientation, marital status, race, age, disability, gender reassignment, pregnancy and maternity, religion or ethnic origin”

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