Manager, Financial Partnerships

Company Description

We’re Checkout.com. You might not know our name, but companies like eBay, Spotify, Klarna, Uber, and Sony do, because we’re behind many of the digital experiences you use every day.

We are where the world checks out, enabling over 10 billion transactions yearly for more than one billion global shoppers.

Whether you want to book a holiday, order food, renew a subscription, or check out online, there’s a good chance our tech powers the payments behind the scenes. Our platform helps the most ambitious businesses deliver effortless digital experiences, at scale.

If you want to do career-defining work, you’ve come to the right place. We move fast, think globally, and believe great teams are built by hiring exceptional people with conviction, curiosity, and the desire to make an impact.

With 20 offices across six continents and London as our HQ, we’re shaping the future of fintech – and we’re just getting started.

Checkout.com is seeking a talented Manager to join the Financial Partnerships team and support the business’s rapid growth and expansion in North America.

Your main responsibility will be to manage strategic partnerships with Checkout’s US Sponsor Banks. You will contribute to the development and execution of our growth strategy in North America as a leading payment provider. Reporting to the Head of Financial Partnerships for North America, the successful candidate will be able to handle multiple areas of responsibilities autonomously, demonstrating excellent critical judgment with hands-on approach. This is an excellent opportunity to work on a broad range of projects and play a key role in building a world-class payments infrastructure.

What You Will Be Doing

• 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.

About You

• 5-10 years experience in payment processing, acquiring, issuing or managing payment partnerships that achieve best-in-class performance.

• You’re not afraid to be the owner: a mix of operations, project management, business development and relationship management skills. A strong sense of ownership to deliver business results with a focus on managing partner relationships.

• You talk straight: a strong collaborator and communicator with the ability to influence stakeholders across organizations internally and externally.

• Payments-obsessed: you’re familiar with the US acquiring and issuing landscape and have experience working with bank-rail payment methods such as ACH, RTP, and FedNow. You find payments innovation fascinating and desire to play a role in its evolution.

• No Room for Approximation: You’re data-driven, analytical and strategic in problem solving issues and identifying opportunities to drive growth and efficiency. You’re 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.

• Athlete Mindset: 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.

Additional Information

Bring all of you to work

We create the conditions for high performers to thrive, through real ownership, fewer blockers, and work that makes a difference from day one.

Here, you’ll move fast, take on meaningful challenges, and be recognized for the impact you deliver. It’s a place where ambition gets met with opportunity, and where your growth is in your hands.

We work as one team, and we back each other to succeed. So whatever your background or identity, if you’re ready to grow and make a difference, you’ll be right at home here.

It’s important we set you up for success and make our process as accessible as possible. So let us know in your application, or tell your recruiter directly, if you need anything to make your experience or working environment more comfortable.

Life at Checkout.com

We understand that work is just one part of your life. Our hybrid working model offers flexibility, with three days per week in the office to support collaboration and connection.

Curious about what it’s like to be part of our team? Visit our Careers Page to learn more about our culture, open roles, and what drives us.

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