Senior Manager, Financial Partnerships

Company Description

Checkout.com is one of the most exciting fintechs in the world. Our mission is to enable businesses and their communities to thrive in the digital economy. We’re the strategic payments partner for some of the best known fast-moving brands globally such as Wise, Hut Group, Sony Electronics, Homebase, Henkel, Binance, Klarna and many others. Purpose-built with performance and scalability in mind, our flexible cloud-based payments platform helps global enterprises launch new products and create experiences customers love. And it's not just what we build that makes us different. It's how.

We empower passionate problem-solvers to collaborate, innovate and do their best work. That’s why we’re on the Forbes Cloud 100 list and a Great Place to Work accredited company. And we’re just getting started. We’re building diverse and inclusive teams around the world — because that’s how we create even better experiences for our merchants and our partners. And we need your help. Join us to build the digital economy of tomorrow.

Job Description

Checkout.com is seeking a talented Senior Manager of Financial Partnerships to join the adventure and support the business’s rapid growth and expansion.

Your main responsibility will be to manage and develop strategic partnerships with card payment networks, acquiring and issuing banks, and other payment providers.. You will contribute to the development and execution of our growth strategy in North America as a leading payment provider. 

Reporting to the Head of Financial Partnerships for North America, the successful candidate will be able to handle multiple areas of responsibilities autonomously, demonstrating excellent critical judgment with hands-on approach. This is a great opportunity to work on a broad range of projects and play a key role in building a world-class payments infrastructure supporting the company’s rapid growth.

Qualifications

What You Will Be Doing

• Manage and develop acquiring and issuing bank partnerships and card network partnerships in order for us to develop and deliver payment solutions and services to our customers.
• Ensure existing processes are followed and deliverables are met by both sides in a partnership.  Use payments knowledge and experience to design and develop new processes to scale those partnerships for growth, efficiency and performance improvement. 
• Collaborate effectively with various teams in the partner organization such as business development, relationship management, risk, compliance, product and operations across all levels.
• Effective internal cross-functional collaboration with product, risk, compliance, legal, finance, operations, sales and other teams.
• Develop and execute a best-in-class partnership management model.  Be the single point of contact internally and externally for assigned partnerships.  
• Use payments industry knowledge and experience to develop and execute acquiring and issuing strategies to support our growth with new products, services and market segments through partnerships.
• Craft and implement win-win commercial agreements and go-to-market strategies with payment partners.
• Leverage knowledge about the payments industry and partners’ capabilities to act as local market subject matter experts for internal teams.

About You

• Minimum 5  years experience in payments.  
• Direct experience in payment processing, acquiring, issuing or managing payment partnerships to achieve payment performance is a strong plus.
• A mix of operations, project management, business development and relationship management skill set.  A strong sense of ownership to deliver business results with a focus on managing partner relationships.
• Strong collaborator and communicator with the ability to influence stakeholders across organizations internally and externally.
• Proficient in data analysis tools such as MS Excel or Google Sheets and presentation tools such as MS Powerpoint and Google Slides.  Comfortable working with large sets of data.  
• Data-driven, analytical and strategic in problem solving issues and identifying opportunities to drive growth and efficiency.
• Comfortable working across time zones and cultures in a globally distributed team.

Additional Information

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

New York City law requires Checkout.com to include in job postings a reasonable estimated salary range for this position. However, final salaries may vary subject to several factors, such as a candidate’s level, relevant experience, qualifications, skills and proficiency for the role. Please note that this information is provided for those in New York City only, and this role is open to c