Description
A high-growth fintech environment in Estonia is seeking a Senior Fintech Payments Operations Manager to oversee the operational performance of payment services across transaction processing, settlement, exceptions, partner coordination, and customer-impacting payment flows.
This is a hands-on leadership role for a payments professional who can combine operational control with technology-driven improvement. You will work across product, engineering, finance, banking partners, and customer operations to keep payment services reliable and efficient.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead daily operational management of payment processing activities.
- Monitor transaction volumes, processing performance, settlement cycles, and payment exceptions.
- Coordinate resolution of failed, delayed, rejected, or incorrectly processed transactions.
- Manage operational relationships with banks, payment processors, and financial infrastructure providers.
- Establish performance metrics covering payment success rates, processing times, exceptions, and operational efficiency.
- Work with engineering teams to investigate technical payment issues and recurring failures.
- Improve payment workflows through automation, standardisation, and process redesign.
- Coordinate operational readiness for new payment products, methods, and integrations.
- Maintain procedures for payment incidents, escalations, reconciliations, and service continuity.
- Analyse payment data to identify trends, bottlenecks, and improvement opportunities.
- Partner with finance and reconciliation teams to resolve settlement differences.
- Provide senior leadership with regular reporting on payment performance and operational risks.
Candidate Profile
- 7+ years of experience in payments, fintech, banking operations, transaction processing, or financial services.
- Strong understanding of payment lifecycles, settlement, reconciliation, and transaction exceptions.
- Experience working with payment processors and banking integrations.
- Strong analytical and operational problem-solving skills.
- Comfortable working with payment data and operational dashboards.
- Excellent stakeholder and incident-management capabilities.
- Strong understanding of technology-enabled financial operations.
Payments Environment
Payment gateways, banking APIs, transaction-processing platforms, settlement systems, reconciliation tools, payment monitoring, operational dashboards, and automated workflows.
Why This Opportunity
You will play a central role in maintaining the operational quality of payment services while helping modernise the processes behind high-volume financial transactions.
Ideal Candidate: A disciplined payments leader who understands both the operational details of transaction processing and the technology required to make payment operations scalable.
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