Associate

PricewaterhouseCoopers Services Trust

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Mumbai Shivaji Park Until 8/22/2026 First posted March 26, 2025 Last posted March 26, 2025
Job description

Line of Service

Advisory

Industry/Sector

FS X-Sector

Specialism

Operations

Management Level

Associate

Job Description & Summary

A career within Application and Emerging Technology services, will provide you with a unique opportunity to help our clients identify and prioritise emerging technologies that can help solve their business problems. We help clients design approaches to integrate new technologies, skills, and processes so they can get the most out of their technology investment and drive business results and innovation.

Looking for : Payments Strategy Consulting position – Consultant/Sr Consultant
Responsibilities:
1. Work on delivery of payments strategy engagements and stakeholder management
both
internally and externally
2. Deliver complex transformation projects from strategy to execution
3. Develop and lead proposals/RFPs in collaboration with other teams &
competencies.
4. Contribute to thought leadership space in the payments space by creating white
paper, case
studies, analysis of trends etc.
5. Develop the team through training and coaching. Initiate and lead open conversations
with
teams, and stakeholders to build trust.
Required Skills(must have):
1) 2 - 5 years years of experience in FS with at least 50% experience in payment roles
2) Past experience working on projects such as such as (a) go to market /
expansion strategies,
(b) Pricing strategies, (3) Target Operating model design (4) Market research and
benchmarking (5) Customer value proposition definition (6) Business process
reengineering
(7) BRD / FRD / Process / SOP documentations (8) Commercial or operational due
diligences,
(9) Best fit partner identification / selection, (10) Cost reduction / automation /
digitization,
(11) Business plan and model creation etc.
3) Good basic understanding of the payment’s domains covering available market
solution and
vendors, market defining trends, different rails and their uses cases, commercial
business /
pricing aspects of payments, risks & regulatory related requirements, etc.
4) One or more payment areas of expertise with in depth knowledge (Areas could
include -
Cards, Toll/Transit, Acquiring, Wallets, Faster Payments, Payment aggregation / PG,
Cross
border payments, Corporate payments, etc.)
5) Excellent communication skills and ability to articulate thoughts in a crisp and concise
manner
6) Proficient in using PowerPoint, Excel, MPP and other tools to delivery high quality
consulting
deliverables
7) Knowledge on certain technical aspects of payments such as cloud and on-prem

infrastructure, payment data analytics and payments security (PCI DSS/PA DSS
compliance)
8) Problem solving and solution oriented in all for situation and tasked assigned
9) Strong communication, client handling and interpersonal skills.
10) As may be required by the client, the candidate should be willing to travel for
projects within
and outside of India for long periods (6 to 8 months), if required.
11) Self-driven and willing to do what is required to meet demanding client needs
12) Deal effectively with ambiguous and unstructured problems and situations
13) Move easily between big picture thinking and managing relevant detail.
14) Navigate the complexities of working in a highly matrixed environment with diverse
teams
across competencies, countries and engagements
15) Sound financial analysis skills
Desired Skills:
1. Prior consulting experience in the payment’s domain with consulting organizations.
2. Formal certification in payments
3. Consultative selling
4. Go getter attitude
Location : Mumbai

Mandatory skill sets- strategy- payments

Preferred skill sets - strategy- payments
Year of experience required -4-7 years
Qualifications- be/btech/postgraduate

Education (if blank, degree and/or field of study not specified)

Degrees/Field of Study required:

Degrees/Field of Study preferred:

Certifications (if blank, certifications not specified)

Required Skills

Payments Strategy

Optional Skills

Desired Languages (If blank, desired languages not specified)

Travel Requirements

Not Specified

Available for Work Visa Sponsorship?

No

Government Clearance Required?

No

Job Posting End Date

About this role

Summary

Deliver payments strategy engagements and manage stakeholder relationships.

Job title

Associate

Experience level

4-7 years

Industry

financial services

Location requirements

Located in Mumbai, remote work not allowed.

Salary

Not specified

Management role

No

Skills & keywords

Required skills

payments strategy

Preferred skills

consultingcertification in paymentsconsultative selling

Specializations

paymentsstrategyconsulting
Locations

Structured locations inferred from the posting.

Unknown location

On-site