Corporate Applications Governance Senior Manager

Job Description

Are you ready to write your next chapter? 

Make your mark at one of the biggest names in payments. With proven technology, we process the largest volume of payments in the world, driving the global economy every day. When you join Worldpay, you join a global community of experts and changemakers, working to reinvent an industry by constantly evolving how we work and making the way millions of people pay easier, every day.  

We’re looking for a Corporate Applications Governance Senior Manager to join our ever-evolving Corporate Applications team to help us unleash the potential of every business.  

Are you ready to make your mark? Then you sound like a Worldpayer. 

About the team 

The Corporate Applications team are a centralised function that will help manage and maintain all applications in use across Worldpay. We will partner with all business and technology teams to ensure Worldpay are maximising the applications functionality. The team are aligned to business functions and work in partnership with other Worldpay Technology Services teams.  

What you’ll own 

Operationalize the Corporate Applications function  

• Implement and monitor standards: Establish and oversee standards and processes to drive consistency, efficiency, and accountability across Corporate Applications  

• Build a comprehensive catalog of standards across all services, incorporating input from stakeholders and SMEs as needed  

• Periodically review and update standards, adapting them to evolving business needs and industry developments  

• Communicate standards clearly within Corporate Applications to ensure compliance, and to enable Corporate Applications to support business functions in adhering to these standards (e.g., guiding functions in defining functional requirements)  

• Establish effective ways of working: Develop guiding principles and processes to promote collaboration and consistent operational practices  

• Define principles and processes that streamline Corporate Applications’ approach to driving actionable outcomes, including structured meeting charters for accountability and efficiency  

• Set clear guidelines for engagement with business functions, including well-defined escalation paths to handle issues promptly and transparently  

• Implement a process for gathering and documenting lessons learned to continuously refine and enhance processes  

• Coordinate project manager allocation with Domain leads to ensure that project management resources align with the business’s highest priorities  

Coordinate and drive governance & reporting  

• Produce and disseminate key reports: Create and manage essential reports to provide oversight and performance visibility  

• Develop and present key Corporate Applications reports at established intervals (e.g., Corporate Applications report card for the Corporate Applications Operating Committee), ensuring that leadership has an accurate view of function performance  

• Solicit input from relevant stakeholders to ensure reports are comprehensive and reflect on-the-ground insights  

• Collaborate on standards adherence and performance reporting:  

• Work closely with the Domain team to monitor and report on standards adherence, readiness for implementation or separation, and project delivery progress.  

• Partner with FP&A to provide transparency on Corporate Applications costs and budgets, including insights into cost per application to guide cost optimization efforts.  

What you bring 

• At least 10 years of related information systems experience and 3+ years in a leadership capacity 

• Experience managing