Knowledge of 'payments'?

[NickNick]

Hi All,

Just seen the following job:

"A market leading financial services organisation is looking for an experienced Senior Project Manager with extensive Payments knowledge. The Project Manager will be responsible for end to end delivery and will work on projects across the business. This exciting role will be within a large and innovative Mobile Payments Programme"

Any ideas on what 'payments' knowledge consists of? For example would a global systems integration with Worldpay / Braintree API be considered 'Payments knowledge' or are they looking for something else?

Thanks,
Untouchable1

My guess would be mobile payments, which seems to be a big thing in banking at the moment.

[SpontaneousOrder]

The five references and the £100 day rate was bad, but demanding 'double entry' too ? That's just too much !! (Unless they up the day rate !)

I dunno... i think it's make my day pass quicker.

[TestMangler]

Could mean shopper --> payment provider --> acquirer --> payment provider --> merchant mechanism etc, some double entry bookkeeping etc etc?

The five references and the £100 day rate was bad, but demanding 'double entry' too ? That's just too much !! (Unless they up the day rate !)

[SpontaneousOrder]

Could mean shopper --> payment provider --> acquirer --> payment provider --> merchant mechanism etc, some double entry bookkeeping etc etc?

[speling bee]

I rang them and said I didn't know anything about payments, but still was happy to give it a shot.......they were fine with this and asked me for references from at least 5 people from each of my last 10 places worked, which I naturally was happy to help with. Then they checked I was OK about the £100/day rate, and that I would be working directly under the control of a manager who would expect me to pitch in with whatever else came along.

All good to me

They told me to make a CHAPS payment to them of £200 and then explain exactly how it worked.

[Project Monkey]

I rang them and said I didn't know anything about payments, but still was happy to give it a shot.......they were fine with this and asked me for references from at least 5 people from each of my last 10 places worked, which I naturally was happy to help with. Then they checked I was OK about the £100/day rate, and that I would be working directly under the control of a manager who would expect me to pitch in with whatever else came along.

All good to me

[kevpuk]

I rang them and said I didn't know anything about payments, but still was happy to give it a shot.......they were fine with this and asked me for references from at least 5 people from each of my last 10 places worked, which I naturally was happy to help with. Then they checked I was OK about the £100/day rate, and that I would be working directly under the control of a manager who would expect me to pitch in with whatever else came along.

All good to me

[ChimpMaster]

This is Lloyds, who have been advertising for aeons for people who have 'payments' knowledge. They previously had one of the Indian factory outfits trying to sell them consultants but apparently they couldn't get hold of anyone either.

[TheFaQQer]

I just rang them up. They said that the skills you mentioned sound interesting and they asked for you to give them a call so that you could both discuss it further.

When I rang them, they told me I was perfect, but I needed to tell them my current daily rate and give them five references.

Looks like I'll be quids in, though, as I'm a perfect match.

[MojoDog]

Hi All,

Just seen the following job:

"A market leading financial services organisation is looking for an experienced Senior Project Manager with extensive Payments knowledge. The Project Manager will be responsible for end to end delivery and will work on projects across the business. This exciting role will be within a large and innovative Mobile Payments Programme"

Any ideas on what 'payments' knowledge consists of? For example would a global systems integration with Worldpay / Braintree API be considered 'Payments knowledge' or are they looking for something else?

Thanks,
Untouchable1

I just rang them up. They said that the skills you mentioned sound interesting and they asked for you to give them a call so that you could both discuss it further.

[kevpuk]

Could be.....or could not - why not ask the Agent?
May well be along the lines of payment methods in general, too, such as CHAPS, BACS yada yada yada...

[Untouchable1]

Hi All,

Just seen the following job:

"A market leading financial services organisation is looking for an experienced Senior Project Manager with extensive Payments knowledge. The Project Manager will be responsible for end to end delivery and will work on projects across the business. This exciting role will be within a large and innovative Mobile Payments Programme"

Any ideas on what 'payments' knowledge consists of? For example would a global systems integration with Worldpay / Braintree API be considered 'Payments knowledge' or are they looking for something else?

Thanks,
Untouchable1