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Management Consultant - Payments

Manchester
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Job Role: Payments Consultant

Location

London / Manchester

Career Level

Consultant (CL9)

About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company, providing a broad range of services in strategy and consulting, SONG, technology and operations, with digital capabilities across all of these services. With our thought leadership and culture of innovation, we apply industry expertise, diverse skill sets and next-generation technology to each business challenge.

We believe in inclusion and diversity and supporting the whole person. Our core values comprise of Stewardship, Best People, Client Value Creation, One Global Network, Respect for the Individual and Integrity. Year after year, Accenture is recognized worldwide not just for business performance but for inclusion and diversity too.

“Across the globe, one thing is universally true of the people of Accenture: We care deeply about what we do and the impact we have with our clients and with the communities in which we work and live. It is personal to all of us.” – Julie Sweet, Accenture CEO

As a Team

Accenture’s payments practice is a global functional network of more than 14,000 people who work across multiple industries, delivering end-to-end industry solutions that help our clients transform their payments business.​

Our payments practitioners serve not only our financial clients (e.g., banks, insurers, wealth and asset managers, capital markets) but also businesses in other industries (e.g., airlines and travel, automotive, communications & media, technology platform providers, retail, utilities, and government sectors).​

If you’re looking for a challenging career working in a vibrant environment with access to training and a global network of experts, this could be the role for you. As part of our global team, you'll be working with cutting-edge technologies and will have the opportunity to develop a wide range of new skills on the job.

In our team you will learn:

  • The latest industry innovations in payments from Digital Wallets through to GenAI
  • Skills in the latest technologies that support E2E payments such as cloud & advanced analytics
  • How changes in the way that we live and spend our money impact on things like fraud trends
  • How to deliver innovative solutions to tight timelines working as part of a team in a project delivery capacity
  • How to build and develop your own brand and career working in the Accenture payments team
  • How to manage some of the most complex and large-scale transformational projects specifically in payments

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In this role you will:

  • Advise clients on optimizing payment systems, processes, and strategies utilizing skills and experience across digital payments, payment operations, technology implementation, and data analytics
  • Work with cutting-edge payment technologies and platforms to modernize payment infrastructures and enhance transaction efficiency
  • Understand and solve complex challenges and present solutions to stakeholders across the payments ecosystem
  • Be adaptable and solution-agnostic as you work with diverse client requirements and as payment technologies and regulations evolve rapidly
  • Have the opportunity to work for global clients with opportunities to travel
  • Write thought leadership pieces on payment industry trends and innovations
  • Support in development of sales proposals and payment transformation offerings
  • Contribute payments SME knowledge across merchant acquiring, payment processing, digital wallets, and emerging payment methods
  • Contribute to the Payments practice community and build a network across the organization & clients

Required Skills and Experience

  • Experience working in payments either in an advisory, technical, operational or leadership capacity ideally within a bank, payment service provider, fintech or public sector organisation
  • Understanding of the latest payment regulations specifically PSD3, ISO 20022, Open Banking, and real-time payment schemes
  • Experience working with payment technologies including mobile payments, digital wallets, card payments and account to account (A2A) payments
  • Project delivery experience either as lead or part of project delivery team
  • Experience or knowledge of agile delivery methodology including writing or contributing to user stories
  • Strong MS office skills specifically in PowerPoint & Excel
  • Presenting in person and virtually complex problems & solutions to senior stakeholders
  • Working in a team setting to tight and agile deadlines
  • Commercial awareness to support commercial engagements and spot market opportunities
  • Ability to work across both Technology and Business stakeholders

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  • Knowledge of card scheme rules, card processing flows (authorization, clearing, settlement), interchange optimization, and card product management
  • Knowledge of payments data and how it can enable banks to deliver personalized digital services and experiences
  • Experience with transaction banking and corporate payment solutions including cash management and liquidity services
  • Experience in writing points of view or presenting on payment industry trends and emerging payment technologies
  • Knowledge of latest payment industry trends

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What’s in it for you

At Accenture in addition to a competitive basic salary, you will also have an extensive benefits package which includes 30 days’ vacation per year, private medical insurance and 3 extra days leave per year for charitable work of your choice!

Flexibility and mobility are required to deliver this role as there will be requirements to spend time onsite with our clients and partners to enable delivery of the first-class services we are known for.

About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities.

Visit us at www.accenture.com

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Skills

Payments consulting
Digital payments
Payment operations
Technology implementation
Data analytics
PSD3
ISO 20022
Open banking
Real-time payment schemes
Mobile payments
Digital wallets
Card payments
Account to account payments
Agile delivery
Stakeholder management
Commercial awareness

Location

London, England, United Kingdom

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