Wipro
Partner - Payments Consulting Lead
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Introduction
We are building a modern Wipro.
We are an end-to-end digital transformation partner with the boldest ambitions. To realize them, we need people inspired by reinvention. Of yourself, your career, and your skills. We want to see the constant evolution of our business and our industry. It has always been in our DNA - as the world around us changes, so do we.
Wipro is at the forefront of helping companies around the world transform so that they can deliver great experiences to their customers, partners and employees. At Wipro Consulting, we are at the heart of this endeavour.
Wipro Consulting provide end-to-end business transformation acceleration – from insights to results – and help shape the next generation operating models. Wipro Consulting, with its deep industry focus and product/platform expertise, is at the forefront of Artificial Intelligence (AI) industry transformation and resilience focused transformations. We are a preferred transformation partner of global Fortune 500 companies across financial services, communications and media, consumer, energy, utilities, healthcare and life sciences, and manufacturing industries. Our people are the tip-of-the-spear driving change, come join us!
Overview & Role Focus
Wipro Consulting provides end-to-end business transformation—from insights to results—shaping next-generation operating models. We are at the forefront of AI-led transformation, helping global enterprises harness AI, GenAI, and technology strategy to unlock business value at scale.
We are seeking a visionary Banking & Financial Services (BFS) consulting leader to scale our Payments consulting business across the UKI market. This leadership role will define the regional Payments advisory and consulting strategy, build a high-impact consulting practice, and position Wipro as a market-leading AI transformation partner. The role will drive growth across BFS industries while leveraging Wipro’s broader consulting and technology ecosystem.
The leader will:
- Own and grow the Payments consulting business across UKI by driving revenue, market presence, and practice scale with a focus on:
- Payments strategy and transformation
- Payments Schemes & Rails - Domestic (Faster Payments, BACS, CHAPS, etc), International (SWIFT, Cross-border, SEPA, etc)
- ISO 20022
- Cards & Merchants Payments
- Real-time Payments
- Regulatory & Compliance - PSD2 / PSD3, Open Banking, AML, etc
- Payments Tech & Platforms
- Build and grow senior client relationships, and serve as a trusted advisor to CXOs on AI-led transformation, operating model, cost efficiencies and critical business transformation programmes
- Lead large-scale people and transformation programmes delivering measurable business impact
- Originate and convert consulting opportunities to drive profitable growth
- Deliver complex, multi-shore engagements with commercial accountability
- Shape thought leadership and go-to-market propositions
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Who We Are Looking For
Develop Business, Sell & Deliver
- Outstanding leadership, communication, relationship building and networking skills on the client side, ecosystem partners and internal organization.
- Successful in generating consulting business from new and existing accounts and have the capability to drive and lead customer relationships. Important to have established networks across the UKI Banking & Financial Services market.
- Bring a self-sufficient approach that will be both proactive in supporting business development opportunities as well as effective at creating personal utilization in our ‘sell & deliver’ operating model (after a period of embedding)
- Delivery and program expertise with experience in handling multi shore consulting projects with distributed teams delivering sustainable customer value.
Driving Transformation
- Be a champion and passionate advocate for AI-powered transformation to reposition Wipro as a strategic partner to accelerate and sustain customer value. The individual must be an ambassador for Digital Adoption and Digital Transformation across Banking & Financial Services industries.
- Significant transformation proposition definition and engagement shaping using core and disruptive technologies to solve business problems for tangible business benefits at large enterprise clients. Especially in the areas of;
- AI-powered Payments modernisation
- Payments operating model transformation
- Enterprise payments AI architecture
- Payment hub transformation
- Core banking and payments integration
- Build vs buy platform strategy
- Ability to drive and lead strategic execution, manage change, build relationships with clients and partners, motivate teams and achieve results
- Bring strong program and consulting disciplines (e.g. Project / Program Management, Storytelling, Executive Communications, Commercial disciplines etc.) - ideally from Big 4, Accenture, top-tier management/strategy consulting firms
Talent Management
- Creative, collaborative, and motivating consulting leader who can focus diverse teams on common outcomes and goals
- Nurturing, developing, mentoring of top talent into future consulting business leaders
- Execution of organizational people strategy with strong collaboration from HR and Recruitment leads
- Proactively seeks opportunities to attract top diverse talent at all levels
Thought Leadership
- Strong knowledge of the CxO agenda and experience of developing and delivering strategic AI-powered payments transformation initiatives with a significant focus on process, data and technology.
- Brings own opinion on the key issues facing CxO's across the region and able to demonstrate how they have leveraged this in a collaborative environment to develop points of views and propositions
- Ability to converse with industry leaders and analysts on trends within the market
- Proactively propose solutions, investment decisions along with published artifacts, industry speakerships, analyst interactions etc.
- Internal content and offerings creator, writes publications, blogs and whitepapers
- Utilizes social media effectively with their digital presence to enhance the Wipro brand presence.
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Why Work at Wipro
We pride ourselves on creating an inclusive workplace that provides equal opportunities to all persons regardless of their age, cultural background, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, disability, veteran status, or anything else. If you only meet some of the requirements for this role, that's okay! We value a diverse range of backgrounds & ideas and believe this is fundamental for our future success. So, if you have the curiosity to learn and the willingness to teach what you know, we'd love to hear from you.
Wipro has been globally recognized by several organizations for our commitment to sustainability, inclusion, and diversity. Social good is in our DNA, we believe in sustainability for the health of our planet, its inhabitants, and our business. For over 75 years we have operated as a purpose-driven company with an unwavering commitment to our customers and our communities. Energized by what we call the Spirit of Wipro, we commit ourselves to being a catalyst for change – working to build a more just, equitable and sustainable society. Around 66% of Wipro’s economic ownership is pledged towards philanthropic purposes.
All our employees are expected to embody Wipro’s 5-Habits for Success which are: Being Respectful, Being Responsive, Always Communicating, Demonstrate Stewardship, Building Trust.
Reinvent your world. We are building a modern Wipro. We are an end-to-end digital transformation partner with the boldest ambitions. To realize them, we need people inspired by reinvention. Of yourself, your career, and your skills. We want to see the constant evolution of our business and our industry. It has always been in our DNA - as the world around us changes, so do we. Join a business powered by purpose and a place that empowers you to design your own reinvention. Come to Wipro. Realize your ambitions.
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