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✨Head of Payments/Financial (High-Risk / Gambling PSP)✨

Our client is a cutting-edge fintech player serving as a payment gateway, orchestrator, and PSP. The company integrates top-tier global and local payment methods into a seamless, high-performance platform.

🔅Key Responsibilities
Strategy & Operations
• Build and develop the PSP payment infrastructure (cards, APMs, crypto, local rails)
• Select and onboard acquirers / EMIs / payment providers suitable for high-risk gambling
• Manage payment flows, including routing, fallback, and cascading
• Monitor and control uptime, latency, and approval rates

🔅Team Management
• Build the payments team from scratch
• Manage and coordinate:
• PSP Operations
• Risk / Chargeback
• Compliance / AML (in close cooperation)
• Technical integrations (together with the development team)
• Set tasks, ensure execution, and take full responsibility for results

🔅Risk & Chargebacks
• Control fraud levels and fraud prevention processes
• Manage chargebacks and monitor Visa / Mastercard thresholds
• Optimize MCC, descriptors, and BIN routing
• Communicate directly with bank and acquirer risk departments

🔅Merchants
• Onboard gambling / betting / casino merchants
• Perform merchant risk assessments
• Manage limits, rolling reserves, and settlements
• Resolve payment issues, blocks, and operational incidents

🔅Accountability
• Full ownership of the payments function
• Fast response to incidents and escalations
• Make hands-on decisions without bureaucracy or delays

🔅Requirements
Mandatory
• 5+ years of experience in payments / PSP
• Proven experience in high-risk industries (gambling, betting, iGaming)
• Strong practical understanding of:
• Card acquiring
• Chargebacks
• Fraud prevention tools
• KYC / AML processes (hands-on, not theoretical)
• Experience building or scaling a payments team
• Direct experience working with banks and acquirers
• Experience with crypto payments
• Experience working with multiple acquirers and smart routing
• Knowledge of different GEOs (EU, LATAM, Africa, Asia

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