Consultant
Network International
United Arab Emirates
12th August 2025
2508-3191-16
Job Description
Job Description
We are seeking a Payment Specialist (Consulting Delivery) to lead and manage payment-related consulting projects. This role involves overseeing payment strategy, implementation, and optimization for clients, ensuring efficient transaction processing, compliance, and enhanced customer experience. The ideal candidate has expertise in payment ecosystems, including issuers, acquirers, fintech, and merchants, and excels in project management, stakeholder coordination, and solution delivery
Responsibilities
- Drive digital payment adoption by implementing modern payment solutions (contactless, QR, tokenization, embedded payments).
- Develop and execute digital payment transformation strategies aligned with client objectives.
- Analyze existing payment infrastructures to identify gaps and recommend frictionless digital payment experiences.
- Lead cross-functional teams to implement new payment technologies (real-time payments, open banking, BNPL).
- Partner with banks, PSPs, and fintech providers to enhance digital payment acceptance and security.
- Ensure compliance with industry regulations
- Design customer-centric payment experiences that boost adoption and retention.
- Monitor payment trends and leverage AI, blockchain, and data analytics for smarter payment solutions.
Qualifications
- Outstanding communication and presentation skills, with the ability to articulate complex concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Demonstrated ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams, including sales, risk management, and technology.
- Strong understanding of regulatory requirements and industry standards related to payment
- Strong functional knowledge of Banking and payments i.e., Issuing business (Credit cards, Debit cards, Prepaid cards, wallets, Retail Banking, Corporate Banking), Acquiring Business (Acquirers, Merchants)
- High attention to detail and proven ability to manage multiple, competing priorities simultaneously.
- Strong client leadership skills - can connect with clients and inspire their confidence and ongoing commitment.
- 5+ years in payment consulting, fintech, or banking.
- Strong knowledge of payment processing, gateways, fraud prevention, and settlements.
- Hands-on experience with mobile payments, open banking, and embedded finance.
- Proven ability to engage with issuers, acquirers, fintechs, and merchants.
- Exposure to AI, blockchain, and data-driven payment solutions.
Job Details
| Role Level: | Mid-Level | Work Type: | Full-Time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Country: | United Arab Emirates | City: | Dubai |
| Company Website: | https://www.network.ae | Job Function: | Information Technology (IT) |
| Company Industry/ Sector: |
IT Services and IT Consulting | ||
What We Offer
About the Company
Over the past 30 years, we have built a business based on long-standing and trusted relationships with many of the leading merchants, financial institutions and payment networks operating in the Middle East and Africa. Such relationships are based on our comprehensive capabilities, scale, local presence in the multiple markets in which we operate, alongside our trusted reputation. This gives us significant scale and leadership in the region, where we operate in more than 50 countries, serve over 130,000 merchants and 250 financial institutions and fintech customers, whilst managing more than 16 million customer credentials.We have a diversified business model and operate across the entire consumer payments value chain. We do this with a growth-focused strategy through two business lines:• That enables our merchant customers to ‘take payments’, by providing them with various payment acceptance methods, both online and offline.• Which supports our financial institution, fintech and other payment issuing institution customers in enabling consumers ‘make payments’, by managing and processing their consumer payment credentials and transactions.
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