Vice President - Payment Operations

The Vice President, Payment Operations, will play a pivotal role in leading and oversee payment operations, ensuring smooth and compliant processes, managing teams, and driving strategic initiatives to enhance client experience and operational efficiency.

About The Role

In this opportunity as a Vice President - Payment Operations, you will:

• Ensure a structure is in place to drive improvements in business performance through the provision of high quality performance management, insight and analysis.
• Challenge and influence senior business management to maximize their own business performance.
• Lead and inspire a team of Heads of Finance and Business Support Managers and ensure their development potential is realized.
• Ensure an efficient and value adding structure exists for budgeting and forecasts.
• Prepare strategic and business plans for business management.
• Lead business management through the investment planning and appraisal process.
• Manage delivery of valuable insights and analysis from direct reports to support business decisions.
• Deliver presentations/briefing papers to regional, divisional and global management.
• Ensure compliance with Thomson Reuters policies and procedures, e.g. SOX and Audit.
• Work closely with the Services Centre and Group Finance on operational issues and ad hoc queries.
• Manage the supply of corporate provided services (tax, property, group finance etc.) to the business area.
• Provide input to ad hoc projects within Finance and the business as required.

• 18 - 20 years of experience in managing, mentoring a team of payment operations professionals.
• Expertise in identifying and implementing process improvements to enhance efficiency, accuracy, and compliance in payment operations.
• Leading the end-to-end payment processing lifecycle, ensuring accuracy, timeliness, and compliance with regulations.
• Ensuring compliance with relevant regulations, policies, and procedures related to payment operations and also identify, assess & mitigate operational risks associated with payment operations.
• Implementing and maintaining strong controls and governance frameworks for payment operations.
• Managed Executive level stakeholders to ensure alignment and collaboration.
• Able to handle complex problem solving, thinking out of the box and the ability to work through interwoven dependencies and structures. Able to influence at all levels of the organization without authority.
• Change management and accomplished written and verbal communications experience.

• Industry-Leading Benefits: We offer comprehensive benefit plans to include flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days off, access to the Headspace app, retirement savings, tuition reimbursement, employee incentive programs, and resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.
• Flexibility & Work-Life Balance: Flex My Way is a set of supportive workplace policies designed to help manage personal and professional responsibilities, whether caring for family, giving back to the community, or finding time to refresh and reset. This builds upon our flexible work arrangements, including work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year, and hybrid model, empowering employees to achieve a better work-life balance.
• Career Development and Growth: By fostering a culture of continuous learning and skill development, we prepare our talent to tackle tomorrow's challenges and deliver real-world solutions. Our skills-first approach ensures you have the tools and knowledge to grow, lead, and thrive in an AI-enabled future.
• Culture: Globally recognized and award-winning reputation for inclusion, innovation, and customer-focus. Our eleven business resource groups nurture our culture of belonging across the diverse backgrounds and experiences represented across our global footprint.
• Hybrid Work Model: We've adopted a flexible hybrid working environment (2-3 days a week in the office depending on the role) for our office-based roles while delivering a seamless experience that is digitally and physically connected.
• Social Impact: Make an impact in your community with our Social Impact Institute. We offer employees two paid volunteer days off annually and opportunities to get involved with pro-bono consulting projects and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) initiatives.