Lead Payments Acceptance Consultant – Country Management and Remediation – Spanish Speaking desirableRole Description

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 country/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 Client''s 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 ecommerce 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 stakeholdersThe role is covering the South American regions so preferred are Spanish speaking consultants, though this is not essentialResponsibilities

Manages technical communications with client’s technical team, project team, customer service teams and senior executivesProvides technical support and consultancy to assigned markets and clients while naturally becoming the trusted point of contact for fixing technical acceptance issuesProactively resolves client business and technical problems while showing strong leadership navigating the articulated business matrix, acting in complete autonomySupports business development teams to expand acceptance in specific marketsSupports market testing activities conducted by client with the partners and lead remediation effortsProactively find gaps in the acceptance by reviewing historical transactions using data toolsProvides regular updates and reporting adapted to different levels of management on key metrics and objectivesBe able to adapt overall remediation tactics and strategies to address challenges/issues/opportunitiesExecutes department initiatives and ensures processes and projects are well documented to meet auditing requirementsCould have additional responsibilities for planning, directing, and coordinating activities cross functionally.Minimum requirements

Extensive knowledge and experience of the payment ecosystem, preferably from a scheme or acquiring backgroundExtensive experience in managing card acceptance (technical remediation) from an operational perspectiveProficient knowledge of Excel, Trend Analysis and Root Cause Analysis are essentialGood knowledge of Power Point, proficient in delivering presentationsNatural relationship builder able to proficiently set and maintain great relationships with a portfolio of clients and multiple internal stakeholdersCandidates from card schemes background would be nice to havePlease send CV in first instance to be consideredHybrid / Mostly remote with occasional travel to London office(Payments Consultant, Cards, Merchants, Acquiring, Payments Acceptance, Account Management)

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