Card Schemes Manager - Mexico

Posted 29 Days Ago
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Mexico City, Cuauhtémoc, Mexico City, MEX
In-Office
Senior level
Payments • Financial Services
The Role
Manage end-to-end acquiring for Mexico/LATAM (Prosa, Visa, Mastercard, Elo): implement and certify card methods, analyze technical documentation, settlement and reconciliation, provide operational escalation and product delivery, execute test plans, maintain scheme relationships, ensure compliance, and coordinate cross-functional teams including Finance, Legal, and Processing.
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About Unlimit
 
Unlimit is a global fintech ecosystem built to eliminate financial borders holding businesses back. The company provides the extensive infrastructure needed to scale globally, integrating payment processing, multi-currency business accounts, BaaS and crypto gateways into a single, intelligent platform.
 
Across 17 offices globally, Unlimit bridges hyper-local expertise with a high-capacity financial network, giving companies the agility to expand across regions with operational confidence and speed. Driving the evolution of payments, Unlimit is transforming its infrastructure from human-operated fintech into AI-native financial infrastructure — where APIs are consumed by machines, integrations are negotiated by agents, and systems evolve continuously through intelligent automation. Our next users are not only humans. They are AI agents acting on behalf of humans and businesses.
 
Unlimit serves more than the needs of businesses today; we are building the nervous system for a borderless global economy.

About the role:
 
Unlimit is the most cutting-edge payment company providing a unique and high-tech suite of solutions to e-commerce merchants and card issuing products.
 
As part of our dynamic growth, we seek a Technical Card Scheme Manager with proven experience and expertise in Card Acquiring.
 
In this role, you will be responsible for support of existing Card methods as well as the development and launch of new Acquiring card methods with focus on the Mexico and LATAM region working closely with Card Schemes (Prosa / Visa / MC and other Schemes), Partners, Vendors.
 
To help accomplish your responsibilities, you will work closely with the Card Processing team, Settlement team , Finance team, PSP, Legal, Acquiring team, Analytics teams, Banking team and other department will be involving in the acquiring setup or process for Acquiring.
 
This position expects a lot of communication with Card schemes, external stakeholders, and partners.
 
The vacancy expects working from Mexico office. 

Responsibilities:

  • End-to-end management of Acquiring: Prosa, Mastercard, Visa and etc. including the technical implementation and analyze of the technical documentation
  • Support payments acceptance related reviews and escalations
  • Analysis of technical documentation of card schemes and mandates
  • Develop manuals and instructions for internal departments
  • Analysis of card schemes settlement & reconciliation
  • Support the operation of our existing solutions as an escalation point for internal teams.
  • Effectively document business/technical requirements and understand operational processes.
  • Execute test plans for new products and work closely with go to market teams to deliver working features.
  • Develop relationship with card schemes (Prosa / MasterCard / Visa / Elo / and etc.) as part of the implementation of Cards payment methods
  • Operational support for launched Acquiring products
  • Provide day-to-day product delivery and quality management
  • Ensure awareness of product status and roadmap risks across the group
  • Drive post-launch look-backs and internal process improvements
  • Analyze Card Scheme invoices in detail on a monthly basis to ensure that the assigned fee is billed correctly, analyzing the costs in detail every month to ensure that the assigned budget is met and closely work with Finance and Reconciliation team
  • Ensuring compliance with Mandatory Changes of Card Schemes and Regulatory

Requirements:

  • Proven experience with the payments lifecycle, including data messaging standards (ISO).
  • Proven experience in the certification of products with Card Schemes 
  • Proven experience working with Mandatory changes of Card schemes
  • Proven experience and understanding of CID and REDMX domestic rules
  • Knowledge of card schemes rules (Visa / MasterCard, etc).
  • Knowledge of card schemes settlement and reconciliation processes
  • Must be able to talk knowledgeably with card schemes, vendors, partners and banks who live and breathe payments every day.
  • Good technical and project management skills.
  • Passionate about the acquiring & issuing industry.
  • Fluent in English.

Will consider as a plus:

  • Knowledge/working experience with LATAM markets.
  • Proven experience and understanding of the implementation of acquiring related products.
  • Portuguese speaking.

Join Unlimit Team now!
 
Unlimit is an equal opportunity employer. We believe passionately that employing a diverse workforce is central to our success. We make recruiting decisions based on your experience and skills. We welcome applications from all members of society irrespective of age, sex, disability, sexual orientation, race, religion or belief.

Skills Required

  • Proven experience with the payments lifecycle, including data messaging standards (ISO)
  • Proven experience in the certification of products with Card Schemes
  • Proven experience working with Mandatory changes of Card Schemes
  • Proven experience and understanding of CID and REDMX domestic rules
  • Knowledge of card schemes rules (Visa, MasterCard, etc.)
  • Knowledge of card schemes settlement and reconciliation processes
  • Ability to communicate knowledgeably with card schemes, vendors, partners and banks
  • Good technical and project management skills
  • Fluent in English
  • Knowledge/working experience with LATAM markets
  • Portuguese speaking
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The Company
HQ: London
436 Employees
Year Founded: 2009

What We Do

From London to Singapore and from San Francisco to São Paulo, we help businesses enter new markets, explore new industries, and reach new milestones. We are driven by a deep-seated determination to be the best possible partner for our customers – giving you the support you need to capitalize on a world that’s changing at breakneck speed. Our mission is to provide innovators with a convenient and simple financial interface that enables payments to flow freely and invisibly across borders. We offer a wide range of services, including payment gateway, card acquiring, business accounts, card issuing, alternative payment methods, and more. That’s the reason why we are called Unlimit: we provide unlimited growth opportunities for our customers, freeing them from the payment constraints. Unlimit - Borderless Payments

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