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Issuing Specialist for Portfolio Support

Location : 

UAE

Job Type : 

Contract Duration : 12 months

Workspace : 

On-Site

Knowledge & Experience

  • Bachelor's degree in appropriate field of study or equivalent work experience

  • Over 10 (ten) years of proven experience in project management with a focus on end-to-end project

  • Management of complex projects in the payments domain

  • Extensive experience working on payment products and proposition launches

  • In depth understanding on interchange ,scheme pricing and regulations.

  • Solid organizational abilities with keen attention to detail and effective multitasking

  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

  • Project management professional (PMP) / PRINCE II certification is a plus

Requirements

  • Program assessment and planning; 

  • Develop a thorough understanding of the client business and priorities; 

  • Evaluate and quantify client-specific opportunities and risks in the local market context; 

  • Integrate insights from recent market trends into business performance improvement plans; 

  • Handle all aspects of scheme pricing (interchange and scheme pricing).

  • Deployment and implementation of initiatives; 

  • Set up a center of engagement to coordinate across key, often concurrent, schema initiatives; Implement the priority value realization activities with rigor, discipline, and focus on client impact; 

  • Deploy selected optimal mix of schema products and services needed to improve client's business performance; 

  • Coordinate resources, schema, client as well as third parties to ensure sustained quality of client activities (deliverables and timelines); 

  • Ensure compliance with scheme mandates and regulations and provide insights and recommendations based on data analysis; 

  • Collaborate with the team to optimize pricing strategies; 

  • Review P&L (profit and loss) lines for issuing business to ensure financial feasibility and actively and efficiently liaison with schema product, and account management functions with feedback; 

  • Monitoring and ongoing analysis of progress; 

  • Continuously track performance of relevant target portfolios, products and services; 

  • Create value visibility for priority initiatives across relevant metrics and key performance indicators (KPIs) with action-driving dashboard; 

  • Set up and manage a client control tower to improve speed and quality of decision making.

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