Manager – Payments

Manager – Payments

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About the job

We are hiring a hands-on leader to own and optimise complex payment operations for a growing Fintech business. Fresh capital has unlocked an ambitious plan to triple headcount over the next three years and expand internationally. If you love building robust processes, lifting controls, and leading great people while staying close to the work, this is your platform.

 

Why this role

  • Real-scale story: PE cash injection, automation runway, executive sponsorship
  • Own the engine: lead end-to-end payments for ASX-listed issuers, trust distributions, international transfers, sweep payments
  • Make it best in class: strengthen governance, data integrity, reconciliation accuracy, and reduce exceptions at the root
  • Grow people and process: build a high-performing team and embed continuous improvement that sticks
  • Global exposure: help ready the platform and operating model for international markets

 

What you will do

  • Oversee day-to-day payment execution and approvals, ensuring accuracy, timeliness, and compliance
  • Uplift the ASX dividend payment process to be scalable, resilient, and industry-leading
  • Drive reconciliations and reporting, including AIIR and QTFN, with zero defect discipline
  • Partner with Technology, Registry Operations, and Compliance to harden controls and deliver automation
  • Own exception management and root cause fixes, mature JIRA workflows, and operational MI
  • Coach, mentor, and resource a capable Payments team, balancing BAU with improvement initiatives
  • Document SOPs, process maps, and training to embed best practices

 

What you will bring

  • Deep payments operations experience, dividends or registries a plus, and rigorous reconciliation discipline
  • Track record of uplifting controls, resolving exceptions at source, and scaling processes with existing tools
  • Practical, solutions-focused leadership style, comfortable switching between the detail and the roadmap
  • Strong stakeholder skills across Technology, Compliance, and client teams
  • Familiarity with ASX issuer payments, tax and reporting obligations, and regulated environments

 

The offer

  • High impact remit with clear sponsorship and PE-backed growth
  • Opportunity to build a modern payments capability that scales domestically and internationally
  • Hybrid working arrangement
  • Confidential employer with stable fundamentals and scale-up energy

 

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