Head of Payments Integrity recruitment

Our client a Governmental Body are seeking a Head of Payments Integrity. The successful candidate will be building and developing the payments integrity team and define and implement processes to deliver the Council's payments integrity responsibilities. Other responsibilities will involve leading on the Council's meetings with the Bank of England Oversight team and engage with the Bank of England on expectation setting and management. The role will extend into leading on recognised payment schemes in terms of delivering to the Bank of England by way of scheme action plans and management reporting to the Council's board.

It is expected that the individual will be able to lead on the Council's Payment Scheme Risk Management programme in terms of identifying and managing risks within the payments system as a whole and to identify and manage risks that manifest in more than one payments system i.e euro-zone collapse, single country euro-exit, bank failure, Olympics etc. Furthermore the individual will lead on payments industry and scheme resilience, contingency and disaster recovery. The scope of the role is broad as it reports into the Chief Operating Officer and internal contacts will be made with the CEO and Payment Scheme Managing Directors.

The individual needs to have good working knowledge of payment schemes, experienced in report writing, experience of working in a multiple stakeholder environment and expert in payments integrity, risk management and/or business continuity issues within payment schemes. This is an excellent opportunity for the right candidate and the career prospects are second to none.