Payment Operations Leader - Lexington, United States - Sky Systemz

Description

Job Description


Job Description Salary:
$85-110K Salary


Job Summary:

The Payment Operations Leader is responsible for ensuring the smooth and efficient processing of payment transactions, maintaining compliance with industry regulations and standards, and optimizing payment operations to support the organization's financial goals.

This role is also much more than a daily reporting task, we are looking for a leader to innovate and build a leading payment processing practice.

Who are we:
Sky Systemz is a different kind of financial technology company at its core.

We listen to our customers, we absorb feedback, and based on their wants we further develop our payment software and add new features.

Currently, we are developing a next generation payment platform and neobanking service.

Our mission is to build software solutions that solve big problems for business verticals that have been overlooked by out of the box business software products—helping our customers grow, save money, and operate more efficiently.

Who are you:

You are a talented payment individual, you have 5 years or more experience in payment processing, you have worked in complex payment processing organizations that deal with high volume payment across multiple networks and various customer types.

You look beyond how it works today and move to improve and drive scale in payment operations. You have a risk first view and can translate this into your day to day role. You are happy in fast paced environments and work collaboratively with a roll up your sleeves mentality.


Key Responsibilities:

Payment Operations:

Bring to the table new ways of thinking and set the process and procedures for how best to undertake payment processing, you will look to change the status quo to achieve a better outcome.

Oversee the daily payment processing activities, including authorization, settlement, and reconciliation of transactions.
Monitor payment processing systems and ensure seamless integration with merchant accounts, gateways, and other payment service providers.
Troubleshoot and resolve payment processing issues, errors, or discrepancies.
Look to scale and evolve with new technologies, vendors and innovation.


Reconciliation and Reporting:
Reporting and data are core to you, the reporting out across for multiple stakeholders is vital to your success.
Perform reconciliation of payment transactions, fees, and settlements across various platforms and systems.
Analyze payment data and generate reports on transaction volumes, chargeback rates, and other key performance indicators (KPIs).
Identify and investigate discrepancies, implement corrective actions, and communicate findings to relevant stakeholders.


Vendor Management:
Manage relationships with payment processors, acquiring banks, and other third-party service providers.
Evaluate and negotiate contracts, service level agreements (SLAs), and pricing structures.
Monitor vendor performance and ensure adherence to contractual obligations.


Process Improvement and Automation:
Analyze payment operations processes and identify opportunities for optimization and automation.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams, to move towards automation and scale payment-related workflows
Implement those changes and process improvements, documentation, and training to enhance operational efficiency and reduce errors.


Project and Product Management:
Participate in payment-related projects, such as system upgrades, integration of new payment methods, or compliance initiatives.

Set the features, requirements and needs of your team for delivery by technology, always looking to remove customer pain points and drive internal operational improvements with automation or best practices.

Coordinate with internal and external stakeholders to ensure successful project execution and delivery.


Working knowledge of :
Data reporting tools and data reporting modeling
Building and implementing new payment process and procedures in a regulated space
Marqueta | Finxact | Leading payment operation tools
Daily working knowledge of all or some of the following - end to end payment processing including but not limited - Payment networks, ACH, ISO and PayFac models, FedWire and FedNow
Daily working knowledge of payment practices, policies and procedures
Understanding or have set the path for "Payment Data Architectures" and reporting tools, ideally setting automation standards and processes


Qualifications:
Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, business administration, or a related field
Extensive experience in payment operations, 5 years minimum, preferably in payment facilitation and payment processing
Strong understanding of payment processing systems, regulations, and industry best practices
Work in a payment or bank environment and understand compliance and governance
Clear documentation and process creation experience,
You were the owner of the processes today in your current or past roles.
Proficiency in data analysis, reconciliation, and reporting tools
Excellent problem-solving, attention to detail, and organizational skills
Strong communication and interpersonal abilities

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