Portfolio Manager (Payment Services) – 6 Month Contract

Commercial, Project Management, Business Architect skills. Experience working in a technical payments environment.

A leading payments company has an urgent requirement for a Portfolio Manager on a 6 month contract. You will be required to project mange a number of “virtual” team members across a number of directorates, in order to achieve key deliverables. The role holder will also need to be able to bridge the gap between proposition concept and technical requirements for delivery.

A background within the payments industry, knowledge of API publishing and PSDII are key attributes for the role.

This is a hybrid role that requires the role holder to be able to utilise a number of core skills, such as commercial acumen, business architecture (knowledge of API publishing and linking essential) and project management

The role holder will need to be very “hands on” with the individual duties listed below. The ultimate result for this short term contract will be to support the process of technically translating a PSD2 proposition, into a deliverable product.

The role holder will be responsible for the following;
• Advising on the most suitable API solutions to support, API standards for ‘Account existence’, ‘Account balance’, ‘Statement data retrieval’, ‘Payment initiation’ and similar.
• Additional APIs such as age or address verification options for the proposition, by working with the internal technical team and also from past experience.
• To lead and shape cross division workshops with internal and external stakeholders to achieve key deliverables.
• To own and manage the proposition deliverables register governance model and management
• Additional APIs such as age or address verification
• To build details business and operational rules for the solution

Required Skills, Knowledge & Experience

• Proven background within the Payments industry
• In depth knowledge of API’s
• Ability to translate technical concepts and requirements (with the API specialism), in to business language and vice versa.