Cards Billing and Settlement Operations Technical Lead

Join Wise, a global technology company on a mission to make international money transfers easier and more affordable. As a Technical Team Lead, you will oversee Cards Billing and Settlement Operations, driving cost reduction and ensuring timely payouts. You will manage a team, develop strategies, and collaborate with various departments to improve processes and efficiency.

• Spearhead technical initiatives to increase fee transparency, reconcile complex billing data, and aggressively root out and reduce junk fees.
• Ensure that settlement payouts to card schemes (e.g., Visa, Mastercard) are executed strictly on time, while continuously looking for structural ways to reduce settlement costs.
• Define the strategy for Spend Billing and Settlement Operations, with a focus on reducing operational costs with schemes, including Visa and Mastercard while maintaining on-time payout SLAs and strong internal controls.
• Strong Visa/Mastercard billing and settlement domain expertise, including scheme billing, settlement cycles, mandates and partner cost structures.
• Strong understanding of relevant payment methods and banking integrations, including how settlement payouts are executed through existing payment rails such as direct debits, bank transfers, or other payout mechanisms.
• People management skills to directly manage, coach, develop, and upskill the team.
• Strategic planning skills to own yearly roadmaps, OKRs, priorities, and delivery plans across Billing and Settlement Operations.
• Stakeholder management skills with the ability to context-switch easily.
• Clear decision-making and communication skills to explain complex billing, settlement, cost, and control issues to senior stakeholders.
• Prioritisation and trade-off judgment across SLA delivery, cost reduction, audit readiness, Product launches, and team capacity.

## Additional Information

If you're interested in the position please applyby submitting your CV in English.

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