Functional Lead (Payments)

Posted:
11/25/2025, 5:53:51 PM

Experience Level(s):
Senior

Field(s):
Business & Strategy

Accenture is a global professional services company with leading capabilities in digital, cloud and security. Combining unmatched experience and specialized skills across more than 40 industries, we offer Strategy and Consulting, Interactive, Technology and Operations services—all powered by the world’s largest network of Advanced Technology and Intelligent Operations centers. Our 699,000 people deliver on the promise of technology and human ingenuity every day, serving clients in more than 120 countries. We embrace the power of change to create value and shared success for our clients, people, shareholders, partners, and communities.

What will you do?

The Functional Lead (BA) for Payments Solutions will be leading the Functional stream for Corporate Banking transformation.

This role requires an experience in Corporate Banking and domain expertise in Payments Solutions and will be responsible for leading business analysis efforts, ensuring alignment with business goals, and driving the successful implementation of solutions. The Functional Lead will define business requirements solutions, work with technical teams, and drive best practices to align with Corporate Banking Project modernization strategy.

Job Responsibilities

  • Defines the overall functional strategy and approach, lead the business analysis efforts for Payments Solutions to ensure project goes smoothly.

  • Detail out End-to-End process workflows and ensure alignment with the detailed TOM (target operating model)

  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define business requirements and solutions

  • Analyse and translate business requirements into functional specifications.

  • Work closely with technology teams to ensure the successful implementation of system and process solutions.

  • Ensure compliance with regulatory requirements and industry standards and mentor/guide junior business analysts.

  • Provide regular status updates and reports to leadership, highlighting key risks, progress, and outcomes.

Job Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in Finance, Business Administration, or a related field.

  • Minimum of 8+ years of experience in Corporate Banking and/or Consulting with a focus on Payment Solutions.

  • Proven experience in business analysis and project management.

  • Strong understanding of Payments systems, processes, and regulations.

  • Experience in leading and managing teams.

  • Overall Payments software experience would be greatly preferred such as Finastra GPP.

  • Other software across Corporate Banking / other streams would be good to have.

All our consulting professionals receive comprehensive training covering business acumen, technical and professional skills development.  You’ll also have opportunities to hone your functional skills and expertise in an area of specialization.  We offer a variety of formal and informal training programs at every level to help you acquire and build specialized skills faster. Learning takes place both on the job and through formal training conducted online, in the classroom, or in collaboration with teammates. The sheer variety of work we do, and the experience it offers, provide an unbeatable platform from which to build a career.

Accenture is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all sections of society and does not discriminate on grounds of race, religion, or belief, ethnic or national origin, disability, age, citizenship, marital, domestic, or civil partnership status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other basis as protected by applicable law.

About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities.

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