Manager, Financial Partnerships

Checkout.com • New York, NY

19h • Hybrid

About The Position

Checkout.com is a global payment processing company that enables billions of transactions annually for major businesses like eBay, ASOS, and Uber Eats. With 19 offices across six continents and its headquarters in London, the company is rapidly expanding its operations in North America. This role is for a Manager within the Financial Partnerships team, specifically tasked with managing strategic partnerships with US Sponsor Banks to support the business's growth and expansion in the region. Reporting to the Head of Financial Partnerships for North America, the successful candidate will be expected to autonomously handle multiple responsibilities, demonstrating excellent critical judgment and a hands-on approach. This position offers a significant opportunity to contribute to building a world-class payments infrastructure.

Requirements

• 5-10 years experience in payment processing, acquiring, issuing or managing payment partnerships that achieve best-in-class performance.
• A mix of operations, project management, business development and relationship management skills with a strong sense of ownership to deliver business results with a focus on managing partner relationships.
• A strong collaborator and communicator with the ability to influence stakeholders across organizations internally and externally.
• Familiarity with the US acquiring and issuing landscape and experience working with bank-rail payment methods such as ACH, RTP, and FedNow. A desire to play a role in payments innovation.
• Data-driven, analytical and strategic in problem solving issues and identifying opportunities to drive growth and efficiency. Proficient in data analysis tools such as MS Excel or Google Sheets and presentation tools such as MS Powerpoint and Google Slides. Comfortable working with large sets of data.
• Highly motivated and results-oriented individual with a strong work ethic and a passion for driving growth.
• Comfortable working across time zones and cultures in a globally distributed team.

Responsibilities

• Manage and develop sponsor bank partnerships in order for us to develop and deliver high-performing payment solutions and services to our customers.
• Ensure existing processes are followed and deliverables are met by both sides in a partnership. Use payments knowledge and experience to design and develop new processes to scale those partnerships for growth, efficiency and performance improvement.
• Collaborate effectively with various teams in the partner organization such as Business Development, Relationship Management, Risk, Compliance, Product and Operations across all levels.
• Effective internal cross-functional collaboration with Product, Risk, Compliance, Underwriting Legal, Finance, Operations, Commercial and other teams.
• Develop and execute a best-in-class partnership management model. Be the single point of contact internally and externally for assigned partnerships.
• Use payments industry knowledge and experience to develop and execute acquiring and issuing strategies to support our growth with new products, services and market segments.
• Leverage knowledge about the payments industry and partners’ capabilities to act as local market subject matter experts for internal teams.

Benefits

• real ownership
• fewer blockers
• work that makes a difference from day one
• move fast
• take on meaningful challenges
• be recognized for the impact you deliver
• ambition gets met with opportunity
• your growth is in your hands
• hybrid working model offers flexibility, with three days per week in the office to support collaboration and connection

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed