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Change & Project Management,Finance,IT,Customer Service

Payments Optimisation Manager

Job ID: 009478

Location: Bradford, UK, BD5 8LJ

Job type: Permanent - Full Time

Salary: £57,000 - £80,000 Dependent on skills experience + Bonus & Benefits

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Are you passionate about change and making a real difference in developing and improving payments systems and processes? Join us as a Payments Optimisation Manager and become a key voice in shaping the future of payment services across the Society.

Our new Payments Optimisation Manager will have an enterprise view of all Payments systems/products change, ensuring targeted development and change is identified and prioritised appropriately. This is a high impact role where you'll provide guidance in assessing product opportunities and risks by taking advantage of product KPIs (and other business metrics).

This role will be based in our Bradford Office, with flexible working from home capability.

About the role / what you'll be doing:

You’ll take ownership for delivery of Payments change, working with both suppliers and functional teams to optimise throughput, in order that initiatives result in an excellent customer experience, whilst also achieving expected commercial results and regulatory compliance. You will also:

  • Translate the Society’s strategic direction and goals into an immediate term and longer-term executable roadmap of the payments systems and products vision.
  • Lead and own the provision of centralised prioritisation of all Payments system/product change activity across the Society, providing clarity of the change roadmap to stakeholders.
  • Lead a team of Product Owners in providing day to day support for the smaller payments products/systems.
  • Support the Payments Function, providing guidance in assessing product opportunities and risks, taking advantage of product KPIs to optimise the multi-£m payments product.
  • Utilise data, analytics and metrics to critically impact-assess problems and identify possible solutions quickly.
  • Collaborate with change functions to ensure workstream plans are viable, efficient and aligned with the wider YBS change agenda.

About you:

  • Senior level experience in delivering change and leading a team to deliver high quality change and process improvements within a medium/large enterprise.
  • Senior level experience working in an Agile Scrum team or similar.
  • Experience of operating and implementing payment systems.
  • Experience capturing requirements and documenting in detail in Jira, or similar, for colleagues to work on.
  • Solid understanding of how to take requirements through to live working with design, editorial, development and test colleagues.
  • Solid understanding of Payments processes and regulations.

About Our Benefits

Everyone’s different. That’s why we offer a wide range of benefits and rewards that we think you’ll love – whatever’s important to you, and whatever stage of life you’re at. Such as…

  • Our pension scheme (where you can get up to 11% from us)

  • On target bonus of 7% (with the opportunity to earn up to a maximum 15%)

  • Access to brilliant health benefits

  • Life assurance at 6 times your salary

  • 25 days’ holiday (and the option to buy more)

  • Cycle to work or an interest-free loan for an annual ticket

  • Wellbeing resources and tools

  • Retail and Leisure discounts

Find out more about what we offer

Learning & Development

Everyone can build a career path they love here. And that’s because we offer a wide range of programmes, opportunities and more to help you learn, grow, and develop – and reach your full potential.

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These include...

  • Personal Growth Toolkits - a range of materials that help you discover your strengths, identify your goals, and your next steps.
  • Secondment and Stretch opportunities – helping you gain experience in different areas of our business and new ways of working.
  • Learning Champion Network – opportunities to work outside of your immediate area and build new skills.
  • Apprenticeships and Professional Qualifications – a range of brilliant apprenticeships and programmes available to everyone.
  • REACH Diverse Leadership Programme – helping our Black, Asian and Ethnically Diverse leaders progress into senior leadership roles.
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Ways of working and flexibility

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We know there’s no single right way of working that fits everyone. That’s why we’re not trying to find one. Instead, we’re doing everything we can to make sure that when we’re working flexibly, together and apart, we’re working at our best. We help our colleagues get the most out of work, and take care of themselves, wherever they’re working.

We offer a range of flexible working options without unsocial hours, which can help you find a healthy work-life balance. Whether it’s finishing early for an appointment or fitting your studies and hobbies in around your working hours, we can help make it work for you. We’re happy to talk flexible working and you can reach out to us anytime during the recruitment process to discuss this.

Find out more about our Ways of Working

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

You’ll find people from all walks of life here, with different cultures, beliefs, ages, outlooks and more. And we’re proud of our differences. So we’re dedicated to creating a workplace where everyone feels welcome, supported, and empowered to be their whole self at work.

Our five Colleague Networks play an important role in helping that happen – and have a real impact on our everyday working life here. Each is closely linked to our Inclusion and Diversity committee, and sponsored by a member of our Senior Leadership Team.

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And we also have other colleague groups, such as ManKind and Family Foundations, where colleagues can connect, and start conversations that can be taken into the Networks.

Meet some of the team

Our Underwriters have the knowledge and flexibility to do the right thing for the customer.

Francis

Senior Manager - Customer Services, Bradford

Meet the Recruiter(s)

Rachel Ellis

Rachel Ellis

Resourcing & Inclusion Specialist

Connect with Rachel Ellis

I recruit for the following business areas: Customer Service and Branch

I joined YBS in 2015 starting my journey in the Branch Network.

During my time in the branch I was able to grow and develop my customer service skills while gaining a whole range of knowledge across the different areas of the Retail Network. In 2023 I joined the Resourcing and Inclusion team recruiting for the Customer Service Divisions. I have a real passion for helping people and really enjoy the journey of finding a candidate their ideal role.

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