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Accenture Banking Payments Management Consulting Senior Manager in Atlanta, Georgia

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In Strategy & Consulting we work with C-suite executives, leaders and boards of the world’s leading organizations, helping them reinvent every part of their enterprise to drive greater growth, enhance competitiveness, implement operational improvements, reduce cost, deliver sustainable 360° stakeholder value, and set a new performance frontier for themselves and the industry in which they operate. Our deep industry and functional expertise is supported by proprietary assets and solutions that help organizations transform faster and become more resilient. Underpinned by technology, data, analytics, AI, change management, talent and sustainability capabilities, our Strategy & Consulting services help architect and accelerate all aspects of an organization’s total enterprise reinvention. Financial Services BankingAre you ready to join our banking practice to help our clients’ clients—your friends, family and neighbors—get more out of their money. Do you want to transform products, processes and systems relating to lending, savings, mobile banking and ATMs. Can you envision leading-edge payments/cards business models and systems or orchestrate the upgrade of lending products and technologies, from origination and funding to collateral management and servicing? If yes, then FS Banking Payments is the place for you to grow your reputation as you become an Accenture leader! As part of a strong global community you’ll both learn from and coach our consulting practitioners to embrace the new Payment innovative world.Your Role:As a Banking Payments Senior Manager, you’ll be dedicated to help clients by playing the role of a partner who can work with the client team and lead an Accenture team to design and deliver strategic solutions that address key business issues facing the banking and increasingly the broader payments industry.

  • Integrating, simplifying, and improving, business strategy, technology, and operational efficiency across core payments, digital payments, transaction payments, mobile payments and compliance, risk and operations, to reduce costs and improve productivity;

  • Delivering business change by designing and delivering the strategy across core payments, cards, digital innovation, digital and emerging payments;

  • Helping recommend opportunities for robotics to streamline processes and gain efficiencies throughout the payment lifecycle;

  • Identifying ways that Payments As A Service can both increase operational flexibility, reduce costs, and roadmap for implementation;

  • Renewing card issuing processing platforms to support cost efficiency and growth in volumes;

  • Enabling real time payments and developing real time payments architecture;

  • Helping banks in extending their value chain by reinventing their processes and products;

  • Driving re-platforming projects for increasing efficiency, stability and agility;

  • Helping clients in incorporating digital technologies to stay relevant in the digital ecosystem and in developing connectivity to a wide range of payment methods;

  • Reviewing payments processes followed by the clients and suggesting improvements;

  • Leading teams of analysts and consultants and independently structuring work at the project level to deliver results;

  • Developing business cases, project road maps and operating models to implement complex solutions and systems for financial institutions;

  • Understanding and implementing the use of Open Banking / Open APIs;

  • Synthesizing analyses of the project team into clear, sound recommendations for the client teams to implement;

  • Adapting existing methods and procedures to create possible alternative solutions to moderately complex problems;

  • Running Accenture’s business (including cost management, contract management, etc.) with discipline, rigor and integrity;

  • Developing the Banking Payments practice and building Accenture’s Payment offerings, assets and capabilities; and

  • Developing and managing high-performing multidisciplinary teams, leading by example, actively mentoring others and contributing to performance management and recruitment activities.

For now, all Accenture business travel, international and domestic, is currently restricted to client-essential sales/delivery activity only.

Here's what you need (Basic Qualifications):

  • Minimum of 7 years’ of Banking/Payments experience at a consulting firm, including business product, operations or project management experience implementing new payment products, solutions and/or redesigning processes, in at least one of the following areas:

  • Core Payments including Retail and Corporate payments—particularly with ACH, Wires, EFT, SWIFT, Faster Payment, payment messaging, ISO20022

  • Digital Innovation – Blockchain, Ripple

  • Mobile Payments

  • Payments Re-platforming

  • Real-Time Payments and Real Time Payment Architectures

  • Open Banking/Open APIs

  • Blockchain/Distributed Ledger

Professional Skill Requirement:

  • Track record of consulting project delivery including managing teams, producing project deliverables, and managing projects within timelines and budgets

  • Interfacing with client executives at C-suite level

  • Demonstrated leadership, team work and collaboration in a professional setting

Preferred Qualifications:

  • MBA or equivalent degree

  • Project management experience with the one or more of the following:

  • Cards Acquiring and Issuing

  • Core Payments

  • Banking, Financial Services, and/or Software industries

  • Artificial Intelligence and/ or Robotics

  • Real-Time Payments and Real-Time Payments Architectures

  • Agile Methodology

  • Experience working with commercial payment vendor platforms

  • E.g. Finastra, FIS, Fiserv, ACI, TSYS, Oracle, IBM

  • Experience understanding business challenges and explaining how our offerings and services provide value.

  • Experience identifying a client’s high-level business needs and leading the creation of detailed functional specifications and other documentation, such as requirement traceability matrices, work-flow diagrams and use-cases.

  • An ability to articulate and clearly communicate complex problems and solutions in a simple and logical manner.

  • Well-developed analytical skills and the ability to provide clarity to complex issues and synthesize large amounts of information.

  • Experience working through organizational change, developing and implementing creative solutions.

  • Insights on key methodologies, approaches and market trends in the payments industry.

  • An ability to inspire teams to deliver to a high standard in a suitable timeframe.

  • Experience understanding team strengths, and the ability to coach and develop others.

Compensation at Accenture varies depending on a wide array of factors, which may include but are not limited to the specific office location, role, skill set, and level of experience. As required by local law, Accenture provides a reasonable range of compensation for roles that may be hired in California, Colorado, District of Columbia, Maryland, New York or Washington as set forth below.We accept applications on an on-going basis and there is no fixed deadline to apply.

Information on benefits is here. (https://www.accenture.com/us-en/careers/local/total-rewards)

Role Location Annual Salary Range

California $131,100 to $336,900

Colorado $131,100 to $291,100

District of Columbia $139,600 to $309,900

New York $121,400 to $336,900

Maryland $121,400 to $269,500

Washington $139,600 to $309,900

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