Manager – Payments

The Manager Payments will handle technical definition, solution design, integration readiness and lifecycle management of MTN MoMo consumer-to-business payment propositions. Its primary focus is to translate customer and business needs into clear functional requirements, scalable payment journeys and production-ready solutions across offline acceptance, bill and service payments, online and in-app payments, API-enabled collections, QR, merchant payments and card-linked or emerging payment use cases. The role requires a payments product professional with strong technical fluency to guide architecture and integration discussions, coordinate testing and production readiness, resolve delivery dependencies and strengthen platform performance. Customer adoption, portfolio activation and sustainable usage will be managed as outcomes of dependable product design and delivery rather than as stand-alone commercial activity. Responsibilities Main Job Functions: Payments Solution Design and Product Management • Lead product discovery and translate customer, partner and operational needs into functional requirements, user stories, process flows, business rules, acceptance criteria and measurable service outcomes. • Guide solution design discussions covering APIs, authentication, callbacks, webhooks, error handling, reconciliation, settlement, reporting, monitoring and integration lifecycle requirements. • Ensure solutions are designed for reliability, scalability, traceability, security, interoperability where applicable, and a consistent customer experience. Payments Portfolio and Technology Roadmap • Maintain a prioritized roadmap across bill payments, merchant payments, service payments, institutional collections, online payments, app and web checkout, APIs, QR, card-related propositions and relevant payment acceptance models. • Use platform capability, customer needs, service performance and market developments to prioritize enhancements, migrations, simplification, rationalization or retirement. • Prepare product papers, requirements documents, solution options, business cases and investment motivations for prioritized initiatives. Product Enablement and Customer Adoption • Define proposition activation plans covering customer journeys, channel readiness, partner enablement, user education, lifecycle communication and service support. • Coordinate targeted usage-building interventions informed by segment needs, transaction funnels and customer behavior, with clear success measures and post-implementation learning. • Ensure new integrations progress from technical completion to live, stable and actively used payment propositions. Performance, Reliability and Service Optimization • Own performance dashboards covering activation, conversion, repeat usage, volumes, values, success rates, availability, latency, complaints, reconciliation exceptions and partner performance. • Analyze payment journeys and failure points from initiation through confirmation, set

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