Payment specialist

Management Level

Job Description & Summary

Focused on relationships you are building meaningful client connections and learning how to manage and inspire others. Navigating increasingly complex situations you are growing your personal brand deepening technical expertise and awareness of your strengths. You are expected to anticipate the needs of your teams and clients and to deliver quality. Embracing increased ambiguity you are comfortable when the path forward isnt clear you ask questions and you use these moments as opportunities to grow.

Examples of the skills knowledge and experiences you need to lead and deliver value at this level include but are not limited to:

• Respond effectively to the diverse perspectives needs and feelings of others.
• Use a broad range of tools methodologies and techniques to generate new ideas and solve problems.
• Use critical thinking to break down complex concepts.
• Understand the broader objectives of your project or role and how your work fits into the overall strategy.
• Develop a deeper understanding of the business context and how it is changing.
• Use reflection to develop self awareness enhance strengths and address development areas.
• Interpret data to inform insights and recommendations.
• Uphold and reinforce professional and technical standards (e.g. refer to specific PwC tax and audit guidance) the Firms code of conduct and independence requirements.

Job summary:

We are seeking a highly motivated Strategy Analyst at Manager grade to support and lead strategic initiatives across our Payments business. The role requires strong analytical capability commercial acumen and deep understanding of the payments ecosystem. You will work closely with senior leaders to define strategy assess growth opportunities and drive execution across complex crossfunctional initiatives.

This role combines handson strategic analysis with team leadership and stakeholder management making it ideal for a candidate with a strong background in payments and experience operating at manager or engagementlead level.

Key responsibilities:

Strategy & Commercial Analysis

• Lead strategic assessments across payments (e.g. cards digital wallets realtime payments acquiring issuing crossborder billing or embedded finance)
• Develop market competitor and ecosystem analyses to inform strategic decisionmaking
• Build robust financial and commercial models to evaluate new products partnerships and investments
• Support the definition of medium and longterm payments strategy including growth pricing and operating model considerations

Execution & Delivery

• Translate strategy into actionable initiatives with clear milestones KPIs and success measures
• Drive endtoend delivery of strategic projects from hypothesis development to executivelevel recommendations
• Identify risks dependencies and tradeoffs and proactively propose mitigation plans
• Partner with Product Technology Risk Compliance and Operations teams to ensure feasibility and alignment

Leadership & Stakeholder Management

• Manage and coach junior analysts providing guidance on analytical approach storylining and problem solving
• Act as a trusted advisor to senior stakeholders including Payments leadership and executive management
• Facilitate workshops steering committees and decision forums with confidence and clarity
• Influence decisionmaking through clear concise and datadriven insights

Thought Leadership & Continuous Improvement

• Stay current on payments trends regulatory developments and emerging technologies
• Contribute to thought leadership on the future of payments and implications for the business
• Continuously improve strategic frameworks tools and ways of working within the strategy function

Skills and competencies:

Essential

• 610 years experience in strategy consulting corporate strategy or commercial roles with significant exposure to Payments
• Strong understanding of the payments value chain and economics
• Proven ability to lead complex ambiguous workstreams and deliver highquality strategic outputs
• Advanced analytical and financial modelling skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with experience presenting to senior audiences
• Demonstrated peoplemanagement or teamlead experience

Desirable

• Experience in banking fintech payment networks or consulting (paymentsfocused)
• Exposure to digital transformation platform strategy or productled growth in payments
• MBA or postgraduate qualification in Business Finance or Strategy

Data protection notice:

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Equal opportunity employer statement:

PwC is committed to transformation and employment equity in alignment with the Employment Equity Act of South Africa. We strive to create a diverse and inclusive workplace that reflects the demographics of our country. Our goal is to foster an environment where all employees can thrive and contribute to our shared success.

Travel Requirements

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