Senior Manager, Payments Strategy
6 days ago
We're on a mission to make financial services better for every Canadian. That means no hidden fees, no predatory interest rates - just financial products designed to help our users spend smart, save more, and build real wealth. We're a performance organization with a strong heart: we care deeply about outcomes, and everything ties back to our mission - to financially empower a generation of Canadians.
At KOHO, we're not your average 9-5. We believe real impact comes from people who are trusted, empowered, and supported to do their best work - without sacrificing their lives to do it. We prioritize work-life integration, not just work-life balance. That means asynchronous collaboration, flexible hours, and a remote-first setup built around autonomy and high trust.
KOHO is entering its next chapter - leaner, smarter, more AI-integrated. We're building for impact, not bureaucracy. If you thrive in environments that value clarity, ownership, and bold thinking, you'll fit right in.
About The RoleWe're looking for a Sr Manager, Payments Strategy & Operations to join our team for a role to work remotely based in Canada.
Reporting to Director, Payments, you're going to be leading a team of system analysts to deliver against a hybrid strategy/operations mandate that touches all things money movement - fund flow designs for new products, financial reconciliation, technical analysis and continuous improvement recommendations to payments engineering, cross-functional project delivery, and efficient execution and automation of critical daily workflows.
What You'll Be DoingOwn the "operating system" for the Payment Operations team - continuous intake and prioritization of initiatives from across the org, project planning and requirements gathering, sprint planning and delivery, and execution / automation of routine tasks
Put your fingerprints on every product - use your deep understanding of KOHO's payments stack and business goals to design and operationalize all money movements, acting as the interface between Product, Tech, Risk, Finance, Data, etc.
Own financial reconciliation function end-to-end - set strategy and standards for detection and mitigation, design workflows and tooling/automation
Drive continuous improvements and guide the evolution of KOHO payments stack - set and track KPI targets, do impact analysis and synthesize opportunities into an actionable engineering roadmap
Empower KOHO with payments data - develop and maintain standardized data models, reporting and analytical tools; stand up new data ingestion and publication pipelines.
5+ years payment operations experience in a high-tech environment; deep understanding of card and bank transaction lifecycles, financial reconciliation and authorization / settlement processes in modern API-based systems.
Strong people manager, passion for coaching and developing the hard and soft skills necessary to deliver both operational and project work under shifting priorities.
Tech-savvy and love working with engineering. Comfortable digging into API docs, architecture diagrams and system logs to diagnose issues and make clear asks.
Highly analytical problem-solver with strong business acumen. Proficient pulling your own data with SQL, constructing forecasts and impact estimates, and making educated assumptions to enable trade-off and prioritization decisions.
Excellent communication and stakeholder management at all levels, can synthesize complex topics to diverse stakeholders and bridge technical and business functions.
Process optimization is second nature, obsessed with measurement and efficiency
On cherche un·e Gestionnaire senior, Stratégie et opérations des paiements pour se joindre à notre équipe pour un rôle en télétravail basé au Canada.
Relevant du Directeur, Paiements, tu vas diriger une équipe d'analystes de systèmes pour livrer sur un mandat hybride stratégie/opérations qui touche tout ce qui concerne le mouvement d'argent - conception des flux de fonds pour les nouveaux produits, réconciliation financière, analyse technique pis recommandations d'amélioration continue à l'ingénierie des paiements, livraison de projets interfonctionnels pis exécution efficace et automatisation des workflows quotidiens critiques.
Ce que tu vas faireÊtre propriétaire du « système d'exploitation » de l'équipe Opérations des paiements - intake continu pis priorisation des initiatives provenant de toute l'organisation, planification de projets pis collecte des exigences, planification des sprints pis livraison, pis exécution / automatisation des tâches routinières
Mettre ta touche sur chaque produit - utiliser ta compréhension approfondie du stack de paiements de KOHO pis des objectifs d'affaires pour concevoir pis opérationnaliser tous les mouvements d'argent, agissant comme interface entre Produit, Tech, Risque, Finances, Données, etc.
Être propriétaire de la fonction de réconciliation financière de bout en bout - établir la stratégie pis les standards pour la détection pis la mitigation, concevoir les workflows pis l'outillage/automatisation
Piloter les améliorations continues pis guider l'évolution du stack de paiements de KOHO - établir pis suivre les cibles de KPI, faire l'analyse d'impact pis synthétiser les opportunités en une roadmap d'ingénierie actionnable
Habiliter KOHO avec les données de paiements - développer pis maintenir des modèles de données standardisés, du reporting pis des outils analytiques; mettre sur pied de nouveaux pipelines d'ingestion pis de publication de données.
5+ ans d'expérience en opérations de paiements dans un environnement haute technologie; compréhension approfondie des cycles de vie des transactions par carte pis bancaires, de la réconciliation financière pis des processus d'autorisation / règlement dans les systèmes modernes basés sur API.
Solide gestionnaire de personnel, passion pour le coaching pis le développement des compétences techniques pis interpersonnelles nécessaires pour livrer tant le travail opérationnel que les projets sous des priorités changeantes.
Tech-savvy pis adore travailler avec l'ingénierie. À l'aise de creuser dans la documentation d'API, les diagrammes d'architecture pis les logs système pour diagnostiquer des problèmes pis faire des demandes claires.
Résolveur·euse de problèmes hautement analytique avec un fort sens des affaires. Compétent·e à tirer tes propres données avec SQL, construire des prévisions pis des estimations d'impact pis faire des hypothèses éclairées pour permettre des décisions de compromis pis de priorisation.
Excellente communication pis gestion des parties prenantes à tous les niveaux, capable de synthétiser des sujets complexes pour des parties prenantes diverses pis de faire le pont entre les fonctions techniques pis d'affaires.
L'optimisation des processus est une seconde nature, obsédé·e par la mesure pis l'efficacité
KOHO is for builders.
If you're energized by challenge, motivated by mission, and want to be part of a team that punches above its weight - we want to hear from you.
The KOHO culture is one of collaboration, creativity, and diverse perspectives. We are committed to building and fostering an inclusive, accessible environment for everyone. If you have any questions, concerns, or requests regarding accessibility needs, please contact and the People and Culture team will be happy to help.
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Note: this posting is for an existing vacancy that we are seeking to fill.
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