Technical Payment Specialist (Re-advertisement) at AfricaNenda

Your mission:

• Under the direct supervision of a Regional Director, the Technical Payment Specialist will be responsible for the following key duties and responsibilities:
• Guide on how best to adhere to regulations governing participation and integration into real time payment systems.
• Advise and offer technical inputs in the design of use-cases (P2P, P2B, G2P and CICO payments) for real time payment systems.
• Document technical input on technological and regulatory specification for
• Digital Financial service providers integration to real time payment systems and create guides for interoperability integration.
• Develop the project documents to support Instant Payment Systems implementation and pre-project technical advice to National and regional stakeholders.
• Support the Regional Director in ensuring continuous stakeholder management and strong communication with partners such as instant payments infrastructure service providers, Governance experts and system integrators.
• Develop training materials and executing training assignments customized for requisite markets.
• Follow-up with partners to ensure training is relevant and appropriate.
• Support the Regional Director(s) in liaising with regulatory authorities and other relevant stakeholders in formulating standards meant to guide digital financial service providers, fintech integration and open APIs.
• Provide ideas and support to the Regional Director on how best to support
• Central Banks, fintechs and e-commerce platforms.
• Contribute to knowledge documentation and dissemination across the payment ecosystem through learnings from projects under portfolio.
• Explore the trends and needs within the payment industry and identify support areas where AfricaNenda can play a pivotal role.

A bit about you:

Technical competencies

• Strong knowledge of Financial Markets Infrastructure, with a minimum of 5 years’ experience.
• Experience working with central banks, payment aggregators and open payment system vendors on National Instant Payment Systems with added focus on regulation of new (FinTech related) technologies and innovation.
• Project Planning skills with strong ability to define project scope, objectives, deliverables, and timelines in collaboration with stakeholders. Added advantage if candidate has consulting skills and ability to carry out feasibility studies and gap analysis assessments.
• Track record in facilitating discussions or understanding rules and standards that determine how a payment system is governed, managed, and operated.
• Demonstrated experience in developing and implementing projects/programs in the payment ecosystem, and around digital payments is mandatory.

Education

• Degree in Information and Communication Technology, engineering, Banking, Business Management, or related field is mandatory or Strong subject matter expertise with demonstrated and verifiable experience.

Experience

• At least 5 years of experience working with Central Banks, payment aggregators, fintechs, banks and Mobile money operators and/or open payment frameworks.
• Experience working with infrastructure service providers and payment systems at a National or regional level.
• Experience in developing and implementing projects/ programs in the payment ecosystem, with emphasis on digital payments.
• Experience in policy formulation and design/contribution to national payment strategies is highly desired.