Implementation Consultant- Payments

About the Role

We are looking for an Implementation consultant- Payments to lead and manage the onboarding of client banking relationships. This role combines project management, client engagement, and hands-on technical implementation. You will own multiple bank onboarding projects from kickoff through production go-live, acting as the primary point of contact between clients, banks, and engineering and QA teams.

You will play a critical role in ensuring successful bank connectivity, payment file certification, testing, and deployment while helping improve and accelerate onboarding timelines.

Key Responsibilities

Bank Onboarding & Project Management

- Own end-to-end bank onboarding projects from scoping through production launch.
- Coordinate activities across clients, banking partners, and internal teams.
- Drive project timelines, track milestones, manage dependencies, and escalate blockers.
- Lead onboarding and discovery calls with clients and bank implementation teams.
- Manage multiple concurrent onboarding projects at different implementation stages.

Bank Integration & Technical Setup

- Gather and review bank onboarding requirements and technical documentation.
- Analyze ISO 20022 implementation guides and payment file specifications.
- Work with banking partners to define payment file formats and connectivity requirements. Coordinate SFTP setup, SSH key exchange, and PGP encryption activities for UAT and production environments.




- Partner with engineering teams to configure payment templates and bank connectivity.

Testing, Go-Live & Continuous Improvement

- Coordinate end-to-end testing, bank certification, production cutover, and go-live activities across clients, banking partners, QA, and engineering teams.
- Manage testing trackers, validate payment and reporting files, troubleshoot issues, and secure formal bank approval for production deployment.
- Execute and validate production connectivity, penny tests, reporting file delivery, and reconciliation processes to ensure successful onboarding.
- Complete project documentation and transition ownership to support teams following go-live.

Qualifications

Required

- 3-6 years of experience in fintech, payments, treasury, banking operations, ERP implementations, or technical onboarding roles.
- Understanding of payment processes and banking integrations.
- Familiarity with ISO 20022 payment messages, including pain.001, pain.002, and CAMT reporting files.
- Experience working with SFTP, PGP/GPG encryption, SSH keys, or similar secure file transfer technologies.
- Strong project management and stakeholder coordination skills.
- Experience managing client-facing implementations or technical onboarding projects.
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to work effectively with both business and technical audiences.
- Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously in a fast-paced environment.

📌 Implementation Consultant (México)
🏢 KWA Analytics
📍 México