Director – Payments | Technology Consulting – Financial Services
Location: Multiple locations across Germany
Practice: Technology Consulting – Financial Services
Level: Director
Our client, a leading Big 4 consultancy, is seeking a Director to lead and expand its Payments capability within the Financial Services Technology Consulting practice. This leadership role focuses on shaping payments strategy, driving complex transformation programmes, and building long-term client relationships across banking, payments providers, and financial institutions.
The successful candidate will play a key role in developing market propositions, growing the practice, and leading engagements across the evolving payments landscape—covering infrastructure, schemes, technology, compliance and innovation.
What We Offer
- A market-leading consulting platform with deep client relationships across Financial Services
- Responsibility for shaping and growing the Payments offering at national level
- Access to high-impact, business-critical transformation programmes
- Collaboration with cross-functional experts in technology, data, risk, and strategy
- Clear progression into senior leadership and future partnership opportunities
Key Focus Areas
The Director will lead work across a range of payments topics, including:
- Payments Strategy & Transformation
- Designing enterprise-wide payments strategies aligned with digital and regulatory change
- Supporting clients across retail, corporate and real-time payments transformations
- Payments Architecture & Modernisation
- Advising on target architectures, cloud-enabled platforms, and next-generation payment hubs
- Modernising legacy systems and integrating new digital capabilities
- Payments Regulation & Compliance
- Advising on regulatory change (e.g. PSD2, PSD3, SEPA, instant payments, AML, fraud)
- Designing compliant, resilient and secure payment operating models
- Operational Efficiency & Cost Transformation
- Optimising processes across the payments lifecycle
- Driving automation, straight-through processing and operational excellence
- Innovation & Emerging Trends
- Exploring opportunities in real-time payments, digital wallets, RTP rails, and open banking
- Assessing the impact of digital currencies, tokenisation and new market entrants
Your Profile
We are seeking an experienced technology consulting leader with:
- Extensive experience in payments across financial services, consulting, or industry
- Strong understanding of payments infrastructure, schemes, regulation and operating models
- Proven track record in leading complex transformation programmes for banks or payments providers
- Demonstrated commercial success in business development, proposals and revenue generation
- Ability to engage and influence C-suite stakeholders
- Strong team leadership skills with experience developing senior consulting talent
- Excellent analytical, communication and conceptual skills
- Fluent German and English (written and spoken)
Key Responsibilities
- Client Leadership & Market Development
- Act as a trusted advisor on payments strategy and technology transformation
- Build strong C-level relationships across banks, financial institutions and payments providers
- Lead business development efforts, proposals and thought leadership initiatives
- Shape & Deliver Major Transformation Programmes
- Define and deliver payments strategy, architecture and implementation roadmaps
- Lead multi-disciplinary delivery teams across consulting, engineering and vendor partners
- Ensure high-quality delivery, risk management and client satisfaction
- Grow the Payments Practice
- Develop service offerings, methodologies and go-to-market propositions
- Build strategic partnerships across the payments ecosystem
- Represent the firm in market forums, industry events and relevant networks
- Lead & Develop Teams
- Mentor senior managers and managers and contribute to broader capability building
- Support recruitment and team expansion aligned with practice growth
- Foster an inclusive and collaborative leadership culture