Associate Director - Payment Commercialisation, Treasury Solutions Group

In this role you will:

• Meet Corporate Treasurers (clients) at a strategic level of thinking to help shape as well as provide guidance and solutioning on their Payments Strategy & Roadmap.
• Act as the internal subject matter expert on all thing’s payments across the UK and Europe. This includes the current ecosystem, rails, regulations and key trends with a view into the future. Your deep experience will educate and guide senior stakeholders across Treasury & Finance in addition to engaging relevant industry bodies to draw insights on the latest developments in digital payments.
• Be equipped with the knowledge and experience of what Corporate Treasurers think about and why whilst being capable of explaining how the payments ecosystem applies / impacts Treasury priorities (e.g. liquidity & cash management, risk & control, cost & efficiency and the role of data)
• Define and analyse client problem statements in payments, conduct gap assessments and form recommendations, deliver best practices and similar artefacts and frameworks to scale-up TSG practice to our clients in this area.
• Design and deliver globally consistent training programs and thought leadership covering payment industry themes & topics, enabling GPS frontline teams in their strategic conversations with their clients and stakeholders.
• Develop your GPS profile by taking up speaking engagement at Industry Events, HSBC/GPS proprietary Events, Client Roundtables etc. Work with Marketing and various content teams to help elevate the quality and effectiveness of sponsored/proprietary events.

Required Skills

• Solid experience specialising in traditional and digital payments at a leading consultancy or a senior role from within Corporate Treasury focussed on payment operations & strategy or other payments business
• Proven client facing experience working in or closely with a Treasury or Finance function leading complex payment related topics / projects including implementation and payments optimisation across multiple markets
• Practical experience designing and delivering a payments strategy and roadmap
• Understanding of how payments are initiated, routed and processed through traditional bank channels and outside these channels (e.g. check-out flows, merchant acquiring, PSPs and alternative payment methods) as well as strong knowledge of various schemes (payment rails)
• Knowledge and understanding on the types of payment fraud and the role of data in powering fraud detection
• A keen understanding of future payment strategies and trends including stablecoins and agentic payments plus experience or interest in Digital Assets and Currencies (DAC) is desirable.
• Excellent written and spoken communication skills; an ability to communicate with impact to senior stakeholders internally and externally, ensuring complex information is articulated in a meaningful way to wide and varied audiences.
• Strong and effective stakeholder management skills, ability to build effective networks across business areas, developing relationships based on mutual trust with clients and stakeholders.

Pay range and compensation package

The compensation package will be competitive and commensurate with experience.

Equal Opportunity Statement

HSBC is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or any other characteristic protected by law.