Specialist, Financial Partnerships

The role

The Specialist, Financial Partnerships will manage and grow partnerships with card networks, acquiring banks, APMs, and other payment providers. You will contribute to the development and execution of partnership strategies to support growth in MENA.

What you will do

• Manage commercial relationships with Card Networks, Acquiring Banks, and APMs.
• Drive expansion projects across geographies and payment methods.
• Negotiate operational and commercial outcomes for Checkout.com.
• Ensure existing processes are followed and deliverables are met.
• Design and develop new processes to scale partnerships.
• Collaborate with partner organization functions including risk, compliance, product, and operations.
• Develop and execute a partnership management model.
• Act as the single point of contact internally and externally for assigned partnerships.
• Use payments industry knowledge to execute strategies for new products and market segments.
• Craft and implement commercial agreements and go-to-market strategies.

Required qualifications

• At least 3 years experience in payments.
• Direct experience in payment processing, acquiring, or managing payment partnerships.
• Proficient in payments knowledge to problem solve or identify blockers within the payment flow.
• A mix of operations, project management, and relationship management skill set.
• A strong sense of ownership to deliver business results.
• Strong collaborator and communicator to influence stakeholders.
• Data-driven, analytical and strategic in problem solving.
• Comfortable working across time zones and cultures in a globally distributed team.

Nice to have

• Experience working with card networks or PSPs for acquiring payment transactions

About the company

Checkout.com is a fintech company that enables over 10 billion transactions yearly for more than one billion global shoppers. The company has 20 offices across six continents with London as its HQ.