Payments Strategist, EMEA

<div class="content-intro"><p><strong>Why Sony Interactive Entertainment?</strong></p> <p>Sony Interactive Entertainment isn’t just the Best Place to Play — it’s also the Best Place to Work. Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) is the company behind the PlayStation brand. As a subsidiary of Sony Group Corporation, we’re part of a proud legacy of innovation and excellence. SIE is a dynamic technology company, delivering cutting-edge hardware and network services to more than 100 million people and an entertainment leader, home to some of the most beloved and recognizable intellectual properties (IP) in the world. Our role at SIE is to create and nurture the experiences under the PlayStation brand, a name synonymous with entertainment excellence and creativity.</p></div><p><strong>Role overview:</strong></p> <p>The Global Payments team plays a central role in enabling consumers across the world to purchase our hardware and pay for digital content and services. Our mission is to maximise global payment acceptance, minimise friction, reduce costs and deliver seamless checkout experiences across the PlayStation ecosystem.</p> <p>We are seeking a <strong>Payments Strategist</strong> to support strategic initiatives and data driven optimisation across our EMEA markets. This individual contributor role calls for a payments specialist who is adept at data analysis and has a keen sense of effective “soft sell” partner engagement to help further the payments team's goals.</p> <p>The role encompasses a wide range of responsibilities, including the management of a diverse portfolio of payment partners, the negotiation of complex payment contracts and collaboration with diverse global teams to identify new opportunities for innovation. This position involves presenting and assessing opportunities for KPI improvements in direct discussions with card issuing banks, card networks, and other payment partners. Your responsibilities will span payment optimisation, regulatory / card scheme compliance and payment operations enhancements.</p> <p>The ideal candidate will be a polished external ambassador for Payments at SIE, responsible for developing and clearly communicating the business’ commercial strategy in EMEA. This will be accomplished by leveraging deep payments and analytical expertise to craft creative commercial proposals and maintain external relationships, while fostering an environment of constant incremental improvement at scale.</p> <p><strong>What you’ll be doing:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Work closely with internal payment teams and the external payment ecosystem to identify and help define forward-looking initiatives for EMEA</li> <li>Analyse payments data to identify conversion trends, processing issues, and growth opportunities</li> <li>Identify tac