Platform Solutions, Transaction Banking – Acquiring Risk/BIN Sponsorship, Vice President, Dallas, TX

In Platform Solutions (PS), we power clients with innovative and customer-centered financial products. We bring the best qualities of a technology player and combine that with the best attributes of a large bank. PS is comprised of four main businesses, underpinned by engineering, operations and risk management:

• Transaction Banking (TxB), a cash management and payments platform for clients building a corporate treasury system
• Enterprise Partnerships, consumer financial products that companies embed directly within their ecosystems to better serve their end customers
• Merchant Point-of-Sale Lending, a platform that provides custom credit financing for home improvement merchants to offer directly to their customers
• ETF Accelerator, a platform for clients to launch, list and manage exchange-traded funds

Join us on our journey to deliver financial products and platforms that prioritize the customer and developer experience.

HOW YOU WILL FULFILL YOUR POTENTIAL

As part of TxB’s global risk team, you will play a critical role in collaborating with Card Networks (Visa, Mastercard) and internal Risk teams. The role will ensure operational goals and compliance metrics are met, and that all activity is conducted in accordance with Card Network rules and applicable federal, state, and local law.

We are looking for someone with lots of energy that has excellent communication skills, enjoys product and engineering challenges, and can operate in a highly fluid, rapidly changing environment. If that’s you, we would like to hear from you!

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Monitor Card Network rules and regulations, assessing and communicating impact, and overseeing programmatic delivery of new or changed requirements to completion
• Liaise between Card Networks and Partners on compliance matters, general requests for information, and variance requests
• Build and uphold strong, long-lasting partnerships with a solution-oriented approach to deliver exceptional customer service
• Support overall TxB Risk program buildout and implementation, provide oversight of key policies and procedures, and coordinate various governance forums
• Provide cross functional support to Payment Operations, Client Services and Product teams
• Identify, create, and refine necessary KPI’s to define success and track progress, developing a strong set of outcome-based metrics
• Master the data environment to appropriately prioritize actions to uphold the integrity of the payment ecosystem
• Support Partner due diligence and ongoing refreshes
• Collaborate closely with second line of defense (2LOD) and third line of defense (3LOD) partners
• Establish trusted partnerships with peers, functional leads, and executive level stakeholders
• Update and maintain documentation for team processes and best practices
• Manage ongoing and detailed project plans to drive key deliverables to completion
• Provide clear and concise updates to leadership

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• 7 years of relevant experience in card payment processing, preferably in a risk, audit or compliance function
• Ability to analyze internal and external processes and integration to understand risks and identify controls
• Understanding of relevant audit and control standards and the ability to drive and maintain the compliance
• Ability to be creative, collaborate widely and deliver on key risk objectives in a fast-paced start-up environment
• Strong presentation skills, organizational and interpersonal skills, and leadership presence
• Must be independent and comfortable in a fast paced, ambiguous, and often multi-directional work environment
• Ability to manage several projects/tasks simultaneously
• Team oriented; strong interpersonal and communication skills
• Energetic, self-directed, and self-motivated
• Fluent in English

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Prior Transaction Banking/Commercial Banking/Payments experience
• Prior Card Network/Payment Processing experience

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