Payments Banking Consultant

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Financial Services Payments Practice

The Payments practice is a part of the Financial Services North America Banking Client Service Group, which provides consulting and outsourcing services to retail banking and payments clients throughout the U.S. and Canada.  We serve more than 600 unique clients in 24 countries including banks, networks, merchants, and fin-techs, payment platforms. Accenture's North American Payments practice is responsible for driving Accenture's go-to-market strategies and offerings for our US and Canadian clients, bringing our best offerings and leveraging our global payment practices and experience.  These offerings include:

• Payment Innovation (e.g., digital payments, wallets, etc.)
• Card Issuing
• Retail Bank Payments
• Commercial Cash Management, B2B, Corporate, and Transaction Banking and Payments

As a Payments Consultant, you’ll be dedicated to helping clients by designing and delivering strategic solutions that achieve compliance, mitigate risks, and seize revenue growth opportunities.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop world-class business and technology solutions for Consumer and Commercial Payments clients across a wide range of payment methods.
• Conduct operating model assessments (people, process, org) and client needs assessments.
• Perform vendor assessment and due diligence of packaged platforms, e.g. Card platforms, Pricing & Profitability and Workflow solutions, Treasury Management portals
• Participate in process design, requirements gathering, and functional design as part of Payments systems implementation engagements.
• Serve as a business architect during client engagements.
• Participate in the development of best-in-class, reusable assets.
• Participate in business development to originate new client opportunities.
• Must be willing to travel up to 80% (Monday - Thursday) 

Here’s What You Need:

3+ years of relevant experience in one or more specific payment areas in any of the following payment domains:

• Card: Private label, Credit, Online Debit, Offline Debit, Prepaid, ATM, Acquirer/Issuer
• Retail:  P2P, Bill Payment, Mobile Payments, Electronic Bill Presentment, Micro Payments
• Electronic: ACH, Domestic Wire, International Wire, Fedwire/CHIPS, SWIFT
• Cash / Treasury Management:  Sales, Relationship, Operations and/or Product Delivery

3+ years’ experience with consulting project delivery including managing or creating project deliverables, and managing projects within timelines and budgets within management consulting or industry experience within a large commercial bank or payment provider.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Industry experience within Consumer, Commercial or new payment flows. Demonstrated business and technology expertise across the end-to-end payment lifecycles and operating models
• Successful track record of performing operating model design, business process design, and system functional design.
• Experience with vendor platforms enabling seamless delivery of payments products is preferred.
• Ability to develop and manage relationships with client management.
• Payments industry expertise in alternative/emerging payments
• Understanding of end-to-end payments lifecycle
• Business Architecture - Applied in solution planning, and requirements definition and analysis
• Baseline understanding of the principles of technology
• Requirements Analysis
• Functional Design

Experience with:

• Multiple credit card implementations for consumer or commercial card issuers
• Complex program / transformation delivery, including PMO, value management, and/or change management
• Credit card operating model advisory for issuers
• Use of AI tools to de-risk and accelerate testing and conversions

Professional Skills Required:

• Proven ability to work independently and as a team member
• Proven ability to work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment
• Excellent leadership, communication (written and oral) and interpersonal skills

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 as set forth below.
We anticipate this job posting will be posted until 09/24/2026.

Accenture offers a market competitive suite of benefits including medical, dental, vision, life, and long-term disability coverage, a 401(k) plan, bonus opportunities, paid holidays, and paid time off. See more information on our benefits here:

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