Financial Services Consulting Director | Payment Specialist

Job Family:

Management Consulting

Travel Required:

Up to 75%+

Clearance Required:

None

What You Will Do: 

Guidehouse is a next-generation advisory, technology, and managed services consulting firm serving the public and commercial markets in financial services, healthcare, sustainability, and national defense. Our mission is to help clients solve their most complex and important challenges. Our vision is to build relationships, advance knowledge, insight, and capacity to implement solutions that increase trust in society. 

We act as partners with our clients and industry: we work hand-in-hand with clients to develop and implement measurable, meaningful, and sustainable improvements that position them, and their organizations, for success. We connect leading practices with deep industry insight: Our professionals leverage experience gained from work with the government and in commercial industry, bringing the insight, capabilities, and cultural acumen required to develop well thought-out, sustainable solutions. 

Our Commercial Financial Services practice works with financial industry leaders, including banks, life insurance companies, hedge funds, and nonbank financial institutions. With new competitors entering the marketplace, razor-thin margins, and a shifting regulatory focus, financial companies are exploring new business models, grappling with modernizing their processes and technology to remain competitive. 

Guidehouse offers a challenging high-profile career working closely with prestigious clients at senior levels to deliver real value. Guidehouse is a flourishing company built on trust, teamwork, and enthusiasm that values and respects its employees and clients. 

As a Director, you will be responsible for sustaining and growing Guidehouse’s consulting relationships across the Payments ecosystem with both new and existing clients. You will oversee delivery on at least one large existing account and work to develop additional work across new and existing accounts. You will advise clients at the highest strategic level on both big-picture and tactical matters - showcasing how technology enables a wide range of business outcomes. You will collaborate with delivery leaders to bring the best solutions to our clients that result in measured profitable sales for Guidehouse.  

As a Payments Director with Guidehouse, your role will be pivotal in driving our payment modernization initiatives, focusing on digital assets, operations, and technology. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience across the intersection of payments modernization, digital transformation, and operational risk and compliance, particularly within banks, card networks, non-bank financial institutions, and payment technology companies. You will leverage your Payments subject matter expertise to help stakeholders navigate the changing payments landscape – disruptive technology, regulation, changing customer expectations – to develop growth strategies and deliver business results through well-delivered implementation. As a key member of our leadership team, you will be instrumental in shaping our future in the rapidly evolving payments landscape. Your responsibilities will include: 

• Sales and Business Development: 

• Lead sales initiatives and foster relationships with new and existing clients 

• Develop and execute strategies for business expansion in the Payments domain 

• Identify and pursue opportunities in emerging payment technologies and digital assets 

• Build and maintain strong relationships with clients, understanding their needs and providing tailored solutions 

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