Lead Payments Acceptance Consultant - Spanish Speaking desirable - 12 month contract remote

(Payments Consultant, Cards, Merchants, Acquiring, Payments Acceptance, Account Management)

The International Client Services – Technical Quality of Acceptance Lead is responsible for leading and supervising all related technical acceptance enablement activities as part of their assigned county/ies, leveraging a strong trend and root cause analysis approach, while orchestrating the required support from specialised partnering teams to achieve successful remediation and country acceptance health targets.

The role holder is accountable for working with Clients stakeholders, representing the TQA project by providing regular country updates, including challenges and wins to direct management and senior internal stakeholder clients.

The Role stays on top of all the project activities in the assigned countries and is the primary contact for issues and challenges arising from the portfolio of merchants they are responsible for. Must have good troubleshooting and technical understanding of payments.

This role requires payments knowledge in the financial services industry, ideally from a scheme, or an acquiring background in the acceptance or acceptance related field, ensuring smooth and consistent deliveries, while understanding and fixing technical problems raised during payment checkout at POS terminals and E-commerce websites. Note these are not payment declines but are payment breakages.

Must have good Presentation skills as this role will be making presentations to managers and stakeholders

The role is covering the South American regions so preferred are Spanish speaking consultants, though this is not essential

Responsibilities

• Manages technical communications with client's technical team, project team, customer service teams and senior executives
• Provides technical support and consultancy to assigned markets and clients while naturally becoming the trusted point of contact for fixing technical acceptance issues
• Proactively resolves client business & technical problems while showing strong leadership navigating the articulated business Matrix, acting in complete autonomy
• Supports business development teams to expand acceptance in specific markets
• Supports market testing activities conducted by client with the partners and lead remediation efforts
• Proactively find gaps in the acceptance by reviewing historical transactions using data tools
• Provides regular updates and reporting adapted to different levels of management on key metrics and objectives
• Be able to adapt overall remediation tactics and strategies to address challenges/issues/opportunities
• Executes department initiatives and ensures processes and projects are well documented to meet auditing requirements
• Could have additional responsibilities for planning, directing, and coordinating activities cross functionally.

At a minimum, here's what we need from you:?

• Extensive knowledge and experience of the payment ecosystem, preferably from a scheme or acquiring background
• Extensive experience in managing card acceptance (technical remediation) from an operational perspective
• Proficient knowledge of Excel, Trend Analysis and Root Cause Analysis are essential
• Good knowledge of Powerpoint, proficient in delivering presentations
• Natural relationship builder able to proficiently set and maintain great relationships with a portfolio of clients and multiple internal stakeholders

Candidates from card schemes background would be nice to have

Pleas send CV in first instance to be consider

Hybrid/Mostly remote occasional travel to London office