Payments Manager - Cards Bradford, Yorkshire and the Humber, England
Vanquis Bank
Full Time
Bradford, Yorkshire and the Humber, England
10.56 - 12.04 GBP Today
Job description
About Us:
Vanquis Banking Group has a rich history dating back to 1880. The company was founded in Bradford by Joshua Kelley Waddilove as The Provident Clothing and Supply Company to help people access finance and goods who couldn’t from traditional lenders.
Today, Vanquis Banking Group is a FTSE All Share company listed on the London Stock Exchange with around 1.6 million customers and plays the same role in people’s lives today, as it did when it was founded.
Vanquis Banking Group is a unified group made up of two brands: Vanquis (cards and loans) and Moneybarn (vehicle finance). While they offer different products and services, they share the common purpose and customer-centric values at the heart of our group. We understand our customers are real people with varied life experiences, so everything we do from our products to our customer experience is designed with this in mind.
You and Your Team
You will be part of the payment services team who are responsible for payment channels and regulatory compliance within the VBG payment ecosystem.
You will be a credit card and payments SME responsible for delivering strategically important payment initiatives by partnering with our Tech & Change team and suppliers. You will work closely with Visa, BACS, Open Banking and Acquirers like Global Payments to help shape Payment strategy and regulatory change roadmap.
In your day-to-day role you will:
- Support strategy, design, and implementation of a centralised group capability for Payment services, whilst working closely with Procurement and Supplier Management to maintain current relationships and their deliverables, including managing the potential risks of all vendors.
- Act as a Payment Leader and SME within the business providing expert-level knowledge and advice on payment services.
- Responsible for monitoring and understanding upcoming Visa and other payment regulatory compliance changes and flagging these for action to relevant Tech and Change teams.
- Oversee reporting on the service performance of payment processes including financial reconciliation.
- Implement new payments upgrades and methods than enable product and service innovation.
- Maintain strong relationships with banking partners and suppliers.
What You’ll Bring To The Team
- Hands on experience working with credit card processors such as Fiserv, TSYS, FIS.
- Analysis experience on credit card and UK payment (BACS, CHAPS etc) systems.
- Strong experience with debit card processing, payment gateways, acquirers.
- Good knowledge of Visa/Mastercard operating regulations and scheme systems.
- Good understanding of UK consumer lending regulatory landscape including PSD, CCA and PSD2 compliance.
- Strong influencing and communication skills and the ability to communicate with people at all levels of an organisation and stakeholders.
Why Vanquis Banking Group?
Our colleagues are the most important part of delivering our purpose to put customers on a path to a better everyday life. If it wasn’t for their amazing efforts, ideas and energy we wouldn’t be the successful business that we are today. So we offer an attractive, generous salary and benefits package for everyone including:
- Generous base salary and rewards
- Discretionary bonus scheme
- 25 days holiday entitlement – with one day accrued for each year of service (to max 30 days)
- Defined contribution pension scheme
- Extensive opportunities for personal and career development
- Flexible and dynamic working policies
- A range of initiatives offered through our Sports & Social and Social Impact Programmes
- Perks at Work - A perks platform offering over 30,000 unique discounts
- Free tea, coffee and fruit
- Discounted gym membership
- Subsidised on-site restaurants
