SAP Technical Lead (SF Compensation & VP)

Senior IT Project Manager – Payments & SWIFT

London (Hybrid, 3 days onsite)
£850/day | Inside IR35
Initial 6-Month Contract

A leading international banking institution is seeking an experienced Senior IT Project Manager to join its established Project Management function and deliver a portfolio of strategic payments-focused initiatives across a complex, highly regulated environment.

This role offers the opportunity to lead business-critical programmes spanning payments transformation, SWIFT messaging, ISO 20022 adoption and regulatory-driven change, partnering with senior stakeholders across Technology, Operations, Risk, Compliance and the wider business. The successful candidate will play a key role in ensuring the successful delivery of initiatives that sit at the heart of the bank's payments infrastructure and ongoing transformation agenda.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the end-to-end delivery of complex technology and business change programmes, from initiation through to implementation and post-delivery support.

• Manage project governance, financials, planning, resource allocation, RAID management and executive reporting.

• Drive collaboration across cross-functional teams including Technology, Operations, Information Security, Risk, Compliance and business stakeholders.

• Deliver strategic initiatives involving payment processing platforms, SWIFT messaging, cash management and wider payments infrastructure.

• Support the delivery of ISO 20022 and messaging transformation programmes, ensuring alignment with regulatory and market requirements.

• Manage third-party vendors, delivery partners and Statements of Work (SoWs).

• Facilitate steering committees and governance forums, providing clear visibility of progress, risks, dependencies and key decisions.

• Lead testing, deployment, cutover and operational readiness activities to ensure successful implementation.

Skills & Experience

• Proven track record delivering complex Payments Technology programmes within Banking or Financial Services.

• Strong knowledge of SWIFT messaging, including exposure to MT and MX formats.

• Experience delivering ISO 20022 transformation initiatives.

• Understanding of payment schemes and market infrastructures including CHAPS, SEPA and TARGET2/T2.

• Experience working with cross-border payments, payment operations, liquidity or cash management environments.

• Demonstrated success delivering projects within highly regulated organisations.

• Excellent stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to communicate effectively at Director and Executive level.

• Strong governance, risk, dependency and vendor management capabilities.

• PMP, PRINCE2, APM or equivalent project management certification would be advantageous.

I have a brand new day rate contracting opportunity with a financial services client of mine based in Galway. The role will be a hybrid position, where you will be required to be onsite 1 week per month (3 weeks fully remote from Ireland).

The Expertise We’re Seeking

• The role is primarily focused on Python, but open to experienced Java or C# engineers who are eager to cross-train and work with Python.
• Strong background in RDBMS and AWS.
• Solid understanding of object-oriented programming principles and data structures.
• Familiarity with cloud computing concepts (AWS) and CI/CD tools.
• 6+ years of enterprise-level development experience, with a passion for working in fast-paced environments.

The Skills You Bring

• Demonstrated success in engineering solutions that process large datasets, build scalable applications, and enable rapid prototyping.
• Strong enterprise development background with a consistent record of driving projects from concept to delivery within ambitious timelines.
• Deep expertise in object-oriented programming.
• Hands-on experience developing custom data pipelines to extract, map, transform, and load data into various storage systems such as Oracle, Snowflake, S3, PL/SQL, or shared drives.
• Proficiency in Python, Java, or C#, ideally complemented by experience with data structure libraries such as Pandas and NumPy.
• Familiarity with integrating and extracting data from REST APIs.
• Practical experience scripting in both Linux and Windows environments.
• Prior experience migrating applications to AWS is a strong advantage.

A growing regional payments company is looking for an experienced payments professional to help establish its merchant-acquiring and payment-gateway capabilities.

This is a full-time position based in Singapore, reporting to a senior legal and compliance leader.

The person will build the required banking and payment-partner ecosystem and coordinate the business from initial setup through to launch and ongoing operations.

Responsibilities

• Build relationships with card schemes, acquiring banks, settlement banks, payment processors, gateways and other payment providers.
• Assess different merchant-acquiring models and recommend the most suitable approach for the business.
• Evaluate potential partners based on their capabilities, commercial terms and implementation requirements.
• Negotiate processing fees, settlement timelines, reserves, service levels and other commercial arrangements.
• Coordinate partner applications, due diligence, registrations, approvals and renewals.
• Manage technical integration, testing and certification activities with product and engineering teams.
• Translate partner requirements into clear business, operational and technical actions.
• Build operating processes covering merchant onboarding, settlement, reconciliation, refunds, chargebacks and fraud.
• Track partner obligations, certifications, service performance, incidents and outstanding dependencies.
• Coordinate launch-readiness reviews across product, engineering, finance, treasury, risk, compliance, information security and operations.
• Monitor payment performance and resolve settlement failures, service issues or partner breaches.
• Support the transition from implementation into stable day-to-day payment operations.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Economics, Technology, Law or a related discipline.
• Around 7+ years of relevant payments experience.
• Practical experience working with a card scheme, acquiring bank, payment facilitator, merchant acquirer, gateway or payment processor.
• Direct involvement in building or launching a new payments, acquiring or card-processing capability.
• Good understanding of card authorization, clearing, settlement, processing fees, refunds, chargebacks and fraud.
• Experience coordinating commercial, technical, operational and legal workstreams.
• Working knowledge of payment-security standards and partner due-diligence requirements.
• Strong project-management, negotiation, analytical and stakeholder-management skills.
• Ability to turn complex partner requirements into clear actions for internal teams.
• Comfortable building new processes in an environment where requirements are still developing.

Do you enjoy working in a procurement role?

Do you enjoy process of buying?

Then the role of a Spot Buyer/Procurement assistant is ideal for you!

First and foremost, this is a role which is for the individuals who are looking to gain experience, or previously were in an internship role.

We are looking for a Spot Buyer for one of our clients in the private banking industry in Zurich, Switzerland, for a contract role running from 17.08.2026 until 30.06.2027 with a 60% workload.

In this role, you will support the day-to-day procurement operations across Switzerland and EMEA.

You will be responsible for maintaining supplier data within procurement platforms, managing purchase orders, obtaining and negotiating quotations, supporting contract preparation and execution, and assisting internal stakeholders and suppliers with procurement-related queries.

You will also help manage procurement tools and catalogues, while contributing to user training and process improvements.

If you have initial experience in procurement, sourcing, supply chain or logistics, enjoy working in a structured and analytical way, and are confident communicating with a wide range of stakeholders, this could be the right opportunity for you.

Strong MS Office skills, a proactive mindset, negotiation abilities, and very good German alongside good English are essential.

Experience with SAP, indirect procurement, financial services, or inside sales would be considered a strong advantage.

You will join an international environment where you can further develop your procurement expertise, gain exposure to a complex organisation, and work closely with experienced professionals supporting operational purchasing activities across the business.

Last but not least, fluency in German and English is required.

If you want to hear more about this role, apply directly to:

vuk.susa-stupar@nicollcurtin.com

Phone:  +41 43 508 26 71

We’re working with a tech company building solutions for F&B businesses. They’re expanding their partner network, and are looking for someone to drive growth through strategic relationships and events.

This role is focused on building and managing strategic partnerships, leading the events that bring them to life, and tracking performance to ensure both sides get real value from the relationship.

What you'll do:

• Build and manage partnerships with industry players, resellers, and associations
• Negotiate agreements and track KPIs to ensure mutual growth
• Plan and run events (trade shows, launches, seminars) from budget to execution
• Represent the company at industry events and grow our network
• Work closely with sales and marketing to bring partnership campaigns to life
• Report on partnership performance and ROI

What we're looking for:

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Marketing, Communications, or related field
• 4+ years in partnership management, business development, or event marketing
• Strong communicator and negotiator, comfortable managing external relationships
• Hands-on experience running events and co-marketing initiatives
• Organized, data-driven, and able to work independently in a fast-paced setting
• POS industry background a plus

This is an onsite role based in Singapore.