POSITION: Payment Association Analyst

REPORTS TO: Bank Relationship Manager

WORK SCHEDULE: Standard business hours, Monday through Friday, with a willingness to monitor email and other systems during nonbusiness hours in case of a critical matter. Additional hours may be occasionally required in order to meet time- sensitive deliverables and deadlines.

JOB SUMMARY: The Payment Association Analyst is taking the lead managing oversight of card networks operations under Central Payments Platform Services team. The core functions of this position include management of network workflows including BIN installs, maintenance/renewals, bulletins, quarterly reporting and represent networks on implementations with internal teams and external vendors.

WORK LOCATION: Sioux Falls, SD (Hybrid)

ABOUT US: Visit https://www.central-payments.com/our-story and https://www.fallsfintech.com

TRAVEL: No Travel

What you’ll be doing:

• Assist network operations team with oversight and management of card networks – VISA, Mastercard and Discover.
• Participate in monthly network meetings between Central Payments network team and Networks to build solid relationship to work through open projects and issues.
• Manage oversight regarding BIN management, maintenance, renewals and assist with quarterly reporting.
• Create a network bulletin communication strategy for Central Payments and external partners generating awareness and proper compliance is followed.
• Assist Central Payments Accounting team with network invoices and allocations relating to network charges.
• Work closely with Central Payments implementation teams to ensure networks and secondary networks are properly setup to allow our card programs to launch on time.

What you’ll bring:

• Solid writing experience, with ability to draft policy and procedures focused on network operations.
• Applies general network knowledge, contributing to the development of new processes and the improvement of workflow for overall network management.
• Demonstrated ability to challenge the status-quo and deliver results on ambiguous problems.
• Excellent judgement, analytical skills and decision making.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, including the ability and desire to build relationships with others, particularly with peers at card networks and other third-party vendors.
• Hard working, well organized and able to manage numerous projects simultaneously under deadline pressures.
• An inquisitive nature to help learn about our business and to help find solutions as we grow as a company.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent work experience
• Minimum of two years’ experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience
• Prior financial services experience, particularly relating to consumer card products and/or network operations.

Why Choose Central Payments?

Central Payments manages the flow of money by designing unique payment solutions that responsibly navigate the extensive financial services regulatory landscape. Our comprehensive solutions build, support, and fully administer payments programs through our proprietary OpenCP Fintech API Marketplace. We provide choice partner banks, fintech’s and consumer brands single-source access to the entire payments’ ecosystem. At Central Payments we value our people. Our core values represent who we are as an organization, teammates, and individuals. Join Central Payments and enjoy these values:

• ACCOUNTABILITY: We’re all owners here.
• GRIT: A crazy kind of ambitious tenacity.
• TEAMWORK: We over me.
• INTEGRITY: Honesty, kindness, respect. Enough said.
• PROGRESS: Innovating to make at least one thing better every day.

Tips if we contact you for an interview:

• We highly recommend that you take time to visit our website at www.central-payments.com and our LinkedIn company page. There are informational videos and links to podcasts under the “Our Story” tab that help you understand our background.
• Central Payments’ primary business is establishing consumer deposit accounts, issuing incentive and rebate cards, and transferring/remitting funds via ACH and other means. Prepaid cards make up a sizable portion of our business. If you are not familiar with prepaid cards, we recommend that you purchase a Visa, MasterCard, or Discover-branded, general-purpose, reloadable prepaid card (not a gift card) at any retailer, load a small amount of money, register the account/activate the card, login to the account center online, and conduct transactions. While Central Payments will not issue the card you purchase, it will still help you understand the product in general, its features, and benefits.