Payments Solutions Consultant (New York)

Company: Incedo Inc.

Position: Payments Solutions Consultant

Location: Onsite / Hybrid - New York, NY or Florham Park, NJ

Employment Type: Full-Time

Practice: Payments, Banking & Financial Services

Company Overview

Incedo is a digital transformation, data, AI, and engineering services company that helps enterprises modernize business-critical systems, accelerate innovation, and create measurable business outcomes. Through its Payments Practice, Incedo partners with banks, financial institutions, fintechs, and corporate enterprises to drive payment modernization, digital transformation, payment operations optimization, real-time payments enablement, ISO 20022 readiness, and next-generation payment solutions.

Our offerings span payment strategy, legacy modernization, payment rail transformation, integrated payables, embedded payments, open banking, fraud and risk solutions, customer experience transformation, and AI-powered payment innovations. Incedo also offers industry-focused platforms such as Incedo Pay, an integrated payables platform designed to streamline and automate complex payment operations across B2B and B2C ecosystems.

Role Overview

We are seeking a Payments Solutions Consultant to join our rapidly growing Payments Practice in North America. This role is ideal for a payments professional who combines deep industry expertise with strong consulting, solutioning, and client engagement capabilities.

The successful candidate will work closely with clients, business stakeholders, sales teams, solution architects, and delivery organizations to shape and execute payment transformation initiatives. This individual will help organizations modernize payment ecosystems, improve operational efficiencies, optimize customer experiences, and adopt emerging payment technologies.

In addition to delivery-focused engagements, the Payments Solutions Consultant will support business development activities, including proposal development, client presentations, solution workshops, executive briefings, and thought leadership initiatives.

Key Responsibilities

Client Advisory & Consulting

• Engage with clients to understand strategic business objectives, payment capabilities, operational challenges, and modernization priorities.
• Conduct discovery sessions, stakeholder interviews, and workshops to gather requirements and assess current-state environments.
• Serve as a trusted advisor by providing industry insights, best practices, and strategic recommendations.

Payment Transformation & Solutioning

• Define solution approaches and transformation roadmaps aligned with business goals and industry trends.
• Advise clients on payment modernization initiatives, payment orchestration, payment operations transformation, real-time payments, integrated payables, and digital payment ecosystems.
• Support initiatives involving payment platforms, payment rails, operational optimization, regulatory compliance, and customer experience enhancement.

Business Development & Pre-Sales Support

• Collaborate with sales, account management, and practice leaders to support business development efforts.
• Contribute to proposals, RFP responses, statements of work, solution presentations, business cases, and executive-facing materials.
• Participate in client meetings, capability presentations, and strategic discussions to articulate the value of Incedo's payments offerings.
• Support go-to-market initiatives and thought leadership activities to strengthen Incedo's market presence.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Work closely with architects, delivery teams, and client stakeholders to ensure solution alignment and successful execution.
• Bridge business and technology teams by translating business objectives into practical solution recommendations.
• Facilitate alignment across multiple stakeholders throughout transformation engagements.

Industry Leadership

• Stay current on emerging payment technologies, market trends, regulatory developments, and modernization initiatives.
• Represent the Payments Practice in industry forums, strategic client discussions, and consulting engagements.
• Contribute to the evolution of Incedo's payment consulting frameworks, accelerators, and solution offerings.

Required Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience within payments, banking, fintech, consulting, or payment technology organizations.
• Strong understanding of payment ecosystems, payment processing lifecycles, payment operations, and emerging industry trends.
• Experience supporting payment transformation, payment modernization, digital payments, transaction banking, treasury services, integrated payables, or real-time payments initiatives.
• Knowledge of payment rails and networks, including ACH, Wire, RTP, FedNow, SWIFT, Cross-Border Payments, Cards, Digital Wallets, and emerging payment solutions.
• Demonstrated ability to engage with senior business stakeholders and technology leaders.
• Strong consulting, presentation, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience contributing to client proposals, solution development, executive presentations, business cases, or pre-sales activities.
• Ability to lead client workshops, discovery sessions, and requirements-gathering initiatives.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting payment modernization programs and ISO 20022 transformation initiatives.
• Knowledge of embedded payments, open banking, treasury management solutions, payment operations transformation, or digital banking initiatives.
• Familiarity with banking platforms, payment processors, fintech ecosystems, and payment technology providers.
• Understanding of modern technology architectures, APIs, cloud-based platforms, and digital transformation initiatives within financial services.
• Exposure to regulatory and compliance considerations, including AML, sanctions screening, KYC/KYB, and payment risk management.
• Experience working with banks, payment networks, processors, fintech firms, or consulting organizations.

Success Profile

The ideal candidate is a well-rounded payments professional who can confidently engage with clients, identify business challenges, and articulate practical solution strategies. They are equally comfortable leading workshops, developing executive presentations, contributing to proposals, supporting sales pursuits, and collaborating with delivery teams to drive successful outcomes.

This individual brings strong industry knowledge, credibility, communication skills, and a client-first mindset. They are passionate about helping organizations navigate payment transformation and can effectively represent Incedo's Payments Practice across consulting engagements, strategic initiatives, and business development opportunities.

Why Join Incedo?

As part of Incedo's rapidly expanding Payments Practice, you will work with leading financial institutions, fintechs, payment providers, and enterprise clients on some of the industry's most critical transformation initiatives. You will help shape innovative payment solutions, influence strategic client decisions, contribute to market-leading proposals and thought leadership, and play a key role in the continued growth of Incedo's payments consulting and modernization business.