Payment Specialist

Based in West Africa, the Payment Specialist will come with strong expertise in the technological aspects of the national instant and interoperable payment systems (IIPS), regulation of interoperable payment systems, an understanding or working knowledge of ISO20022, capacity building of digital financial service providers on integration requirements and participation rules, regulation around fintech innovation and open APIs. The perfect candidate will come with an in-depth understanding of specifically the West African market and the ability to travel between countries as required.

Tasks and Responsibilities:

• Guide on how best to adhere to regulations governing participation and integration into the instant, interoperable payment systems real time payment systems.
• Advise and offer technical inputs in the design of use-cases (P2P, P2B, G2P and CICO payments) made possible by integrating into an instant, interoperable payment systems the real time payment systems.
• Document technical inputs on the technological and regulatory specifications for Digital Financial service providers integration and create guides for interoperability integration.
• Support the Regional Director in ensuring continued and strong communication between stakeholders such as instant payments infrastructure partners.
• Ensure training is prepared, performed, and customized to the digital ecosystem stakeholders’ needs.
• Follow-up with partners to ensure training is relevant and appropriate.
• Support IIDIA’s team in providing Technical Expert to (and liaising with) regulatory authorities and other relevant stakeholders in formulating standards meant to guide fintech integration and open APIs.
• Support Central Banks, FinTech’s and e-commerce platforms in instant payment systems’ integration.