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Manager, Payments Transformation & Banking Technology

KPMG
Montréal, CAN
Full-time
Onsite
Discovered 1 weeks ago
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Role overview

KPMG's Banking and Capital Markets Management Consulting practice helps financial institutions design and implement business and technology change.

The Manager leads complex payments transformation engagements and advises client leaders from strategy through implementation.

The role combines payments expertise, delivery leadership, and technology fluency while guiding multidisciplinary teams.

What you will do

  • Lead engagements and workstreams covering payments strategy, operating model transformation, platform modernization, integration, and implementation.
  • Advise executives on payment capabilities, target operating models, modernization roadmaps, vendor choices, and implementation approaches.
  • Direct delivery across requirements, functional design, integration, testing, migration, cutover, operational readiness, and stabilization.
  • Guide teams on payment lifecycles, products, controls, message standards, interfaces, and platform dependencies.
  • Manage scope, plans, teams, risks, issues, dependencies, quality, and engagement economics.
  • Build senior stakeholder relationships and coordinate across vendors and partner teams.
  • Coach consultants, review client outputs, and promote ownership and problem solving.
  • Lead pursuits, proposals, solution shaping, expansion opportunities, reusable methods, and thought leadership.

Required qualifications

  • 6 or more years of relevant experience with significant payments domain depth and leadership of complex consulting, transformation, or technology delivery engagements.
  • Deep payments industry experience in banking, payment networks or providers, fintech, consulting, or payment technology.
  • Business and technology expertise across the end-to-end payment lifecycle and operating model.
  • Track record leading complex management or technology consulting engagements across the solution delivery lifecycle.
  • Experience developing client executive relationships and influencing decisions across business and technology groups.
  • Strong knowledge of one or more payment domains, including high-value, real-time, ACH or EFT, cross-border, commercial, card, wallet, or cash-management payments.
  • Technology fluency across payment platforms, integration patterns, APIs, messaging, data flows, controls, and operational resilience.
  • Strong team leadership, structured problem solving, facilitation, executive communication, and commercial judgment.

Preferred qualifications

  • Knowledge of ISO 20022, SWIFT, Payments Canada, Lynx, ACSS, RTR, Fedwire, SEPA, CHAPS, BACS, NACHA, or comparable payment schemes.
  • Experience with payment hubs or engines, treasury management, payment orchestration, host-to-host connectivity, API-based banking, or cloud modernization.
  • Experience with fraud, sanctions, AML, reconciliation, liquidity or settlement, operational resilience, or regulatory-driven change.
  • Experience with vendor assessments, RFPs, platform selection, or large multi-vendor implementations.
  • Relevant payments, treasury, architecture, project-management, or agile certification.
  • French-English bilingual capability is an asset for client delivery in Quebec.

About KPMG

KPMG in Canada describes its culture through integrity, excellence, courage, togetherness, and doing meaningful work.

The employer states that it supports an inclusive and barrier-free recruitment process.

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