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Payments Director, China & Hong Kong SAR
Flywire
Accounting & Finance
Shanghai, China
Posted on Dec 11, 2024
Company Description
Are you ready to trade your job for a journey? Become a FlyMate!
Passion, excitement & global collaboration are all core to what it means to be a FlyMate. At Flywire, we’re on a mission to deliver the world’s most important and complex payments. We use our Flywire Advantage - the combination of our next-gen payments platform, proprietary payment network and vertical specific software, to help our clients get paid, and help their customers pay with ease - no matter where they are in the world.
What more do we need to truly be unstoppable? Perhaps, that is you!
Who we are:
Flywire is a global payments enablement and software company, delivering high-stakes, high-value payments across the global education, healthcare, travel and B2B industries.
Today, we’ve digitized payments for more than 4,000+ global clients in more than 140 currencies across 240 countries and territories around the world. And, we’re just getting started!
With over 1,300+ global FlyMates, representing more than 40 nationalities, and in 12 offices world-wide, we’re looking for FlyMates to join the next stage of our journey as we continue to grow.
Job Description
Flywire is seeking a dynamic leader to run our Payment Infrastructure in 2 of our largest payer markets, China & Hong Kong to ensure we maintain our best-in-class payment offering. This means staying on top of the cutting edge in understanding the payer journey to offer the best ways for our payers to make their payment. Just as importantly, it also means staying informed of shifting regulatory climates, managing redundancy across the network and optimizing our payments for both margin and operational efficiency.
Regional Market Management
- Build a comprehensive payments strategy for China & Hong Kong, with recommendations for market-leading additions to our payment offering, optimizing the offering of our existing network providers, while reducing risk and driving out processing costs.
- Become the expert for China & Hong Kong,, with a deep working knowledge of how to leverage the regulatory framework, new emerging technology, and innovative service providers to streamline the Flywire payment offering
- Understand the needs of the payer profiles that Flywire needs to support and how to support the optimal payer journey according to their unique needs (consumer vs. business, student vs. patient, etc)
- Lead business development efforts needed to support the improvement of our payment experience through the addition and improvement of our payment methods
- Develop strong relationships with the banking and payment partners associated with your regional payments network
- Mitigate risk through the management of the portfolio of partners for your region
- Create relationship maps for our partners to make sure we have the right connections at the right levels in the partners organization
- Support new partner acquisition and implementation based on revenue and cost savings targets for Flywire
- Expand the capabilities of our network to meet the needs of our vertical businesses
- Work collaboratively across internal stakeholders in Product, Compliance, Regulatory, Tax, Finance, & Operation as necessary while owning the end deliverable of your stated initiative
Qualifications
Here’s What We’re Looking For:
- 10+ years in international Payments and Banking in management positions including most or all of the responsibilities listed above
- Significant experience in a Fintech company
- Strong understanding of international payments
- Previous experience at a global company
- Multilingual ability required (Fluency in English and a good working knowledge of 1 or 2 other languages is required)
- Excellent analytical skills
- Ability to think strategically while focusing on execution and impact
- Natural curiosity – ability to ask the right questions and engage deeply with partners, customers, and internal stakeholders
- Ability to work independently
- Goal oriented with an entrepreneurial spirit
Additional Information
What We Offer:
- Competitive compensation, including Restricted Stock Units
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
- Flying Start - Our immersive Global Induction Program (Meet our Execs & Global Teams)
- Work with brilliant people that will keep you on your toes, learn more about their journeys by checking out #InsideFlywire on social media
- Dynamic & Global Team (we have been collaborating virtually for years!)
- Wellbeing Programs (Mental Health, Wellness, Yoga/Pilates/HIIT Classes) with Global FlyMates
- Be a meaningful part in our success - every FlyMate makes an impact
- Competitive time off including FlyBetter Days to volunteer in a cause you believe in and Digital Disconnect Days!
- Great Talent & Development Programs (Managers Taking Flight – for new or aspiring managers!)
Submit today and get started!
We are excited to get to know you! Throughout our process you can expect to meet with different FlyMates including the Hiring Manager, Peers on the team, the VP of the department, and a skills assessment. Your Talent Acquisition Partner will walk you through the steps and be your “go-to” person for any questions.
Flywire is an equal opportunity employer. With over 40 nationalities across 14 different offices diversity, gender equality, and inclusion are at the core of our people agenda. We believe our FlyMates are our greatest asset, and we’re excited to watch our unique culture evolve with each new hire.