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The Payments & Risk Operations Manager is a senior, strategic, and highly accountable global leader. You work with business partners to define and execute the Payments & Risk Operations strategy, ensuring alignment with Phorest’s product, compliance, and growth goals. You define and evolve the long-term strategic direction for Payments and Risk operating model, and drive execution through strong cross-functional and regional partnerships. You ensure global operational excellence—across both steady-state performance and step-change improvement—so payments and risk operations enable Phorest’s growth while protecting our business and customers.
Job Responsibility:
Product delivery: Collaborate with Pay Product and Commercial to support the rollout of PhorestPay product and features
Payment & Risk Partner management: Own the global payments partner ecosystem strategy, including partner selection, contract negotiation, operational governance, and performance management
Mitigate loss of revenue through developing a scalable risk operations function
Establish the governance model for incident management ensuring rapid cross functional response and prevention, managing incidents and service degradations
Efficiency & Process Optimisation: Establish, communicate and continuously evolve the global Payments & Risk Operations Strategic Vision, ensuring it aligns with Phorest objectives and is translated into regional plans and outcomes
Co-own the end-to-end customer journey perspective for payments with Global Customer Operations, ensuring Customer Ops processes (support, onboarding, education, migrations, complex activations) always account for payments and risk requirements
Continuously identify, assess and optimise cross-journey processes (support, onboarding, education, and data migrations) with the lens of payments
Own automation and process optimisation initiatives, ensuring workflows reduce friction and improve service delivery, enabled by the Business Systems team
Track and report measurable improvements
Cross-Departmental-Region Collaboration: Partner deeply with the Global Head of Customer Operations and their domain leads to embed payments/risk into global CX operating systems, including planning cycles, VoC rhythms, enablement content, and regional health reviews
Lead global payment operations strategies, setting the standards, governance and expectations for regional execution while tailoring strategies to regional needs
Ensure alignment by collaborating with global departments (especially RnD) to ensure systems are aligned with the needs of Payments Operations
Work closely with Regional Teams to ensure the Payops processes are effectively helping them achieve their outcomes and meet their goals
Data & Insights Management: Use data-driven insights to inform operational decisions and strategies, providing regional teams with actionable insights to enhance payments interactions
Drive data integrity, elevate risk visibility, and optimise commercial impact analysis globally by guaranteeing accurate, accessible payment data at every stage of the customer journey
Performance Tracking & Reporting: Accountable for tracking and reporting on key steady-state operational metrics for payments operations
Share insights across all regions to support them in reviewing performance data to identify areas for improvement and implement solutions to address operational bottlenecks or challenges
Strategic Initiatives, Continuous Improvement & Staying Ahead: Lead and execute initiatives aimed at enhancing the payment experience, focusing on reducing reactive problem-solving and driving proactive service delivery
Stay ahead of industry trends in Fintech, tools and automation technologies, leading initiatives that continuously improve operational efficiency and global payments experience
People & Leadership: Manage a small team of highly skilled payment operations professionals with deep expertise in areas such as risk and fraud
Talent Development: Lead, coach and develop high-performing, results-driven people highly specialised in payment operations areas
Set team and individual measurable goals for your people, and with regional teams, ensuring expectations are clear and we regularly evaluate progress
A culture ambassador for the team through creating and nurturing a collaborative culture with a shared purpose
Act as a senior sponsor for change initiatives across the payments ecosystem, ensuring alignment, clear communication, and strong adoption across global teams and senior stakeholders
Requirements:
10+ years in payments, fintech, risk, or global operations, including people leadership experience
Deep expertise in payments processing, merchant acquiring, payouts, fraud/chargebacks, and compliance across multiple regions
Proven ability to design and scale global operating models, processes, and automation
Strong understanding of payments partners (e.g., Stripe) and the commercial, technical, and operational dynamics of PSP ecosystems
Highly data-driven with strong analytical and KPI design skills, experienced in using insights to drive decisions and outcomes
Solid financial acumen, including cost of acceptance, loss forecasting, and revenue/retention impact of payments
Strategic, systems-level thinker with strong executive presence—able to set long-term direction, build scalable frameworks, and influence senior leaders without authority, and make balanced, values-led decisions that align risk, customer experience, and commercial outcomes
Experienced leader of specialists who builds capability, develops future leaders, and drives high performance through clear expectations, coaching, and continuous improvement
Exceptional collaborator who aligns and uplifts regional teams through influence, strong relationships, and open, values-led communication
What we offer:
Private healthcare
2 Wellness Days
Employee assistance program
Free online GP service
Competitive Compensation
Employee Share Purchase Scheme
Pension
Life Assurance
Income Protection
Bike to work scheme
Tax saver transport tickets
2 weeks leave for Fertility Treatment, Pregnancy Loss and Menopause
Enhanced Maternity and Paternity Benefits
Great learning environment and extensive development opportunities
Development programs
Access to many online resources including LinkedIn learning