Lead Acquiring

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Mumbai, Maharashtra, IND
In-Office
Entry level
Fintech • Payments • Financial Services
The Role
Manage relationships with banks, payment aggregators, payment service providers, and enterprise merchant acquirers to expand NPCI payment product adoption. Drive merchant acceptance, activation, compliance, partner enablement, testing, certification, pilots, and production readiness. Support new payment capabilities, recurring payments, device integrations, and enterprise solutions. Use AI-enabled analytics to monitor acceptance, identify gaps, prioritize interventions, improve partner effectiveness, and develop adoption-focused use cases.
Summary Generated by Built In
The role is responsible for managing and strengthening relationships with Acquiring Entities (Banks, Payment Aggregators, Payment Service Providers, and Enterprise Merchant Acquirers) to drive the adoption, compliance, and enablement of NPCI payment products across the merchant ecosystem.

  • Drive end-to-end merchant acceptance of NPCI payment products through acquiring partners.
  • Improve penetration and activation of payment products across online and offline merchants via Acquiring Entities.
  • Ensure acquiring partners adhere to NPCI operating guidelines, ecosystem standards, and regulatory requirements.
  • Leverage AI-enabled tools and analytics to improve acceptance monitoring, identify patterns and gaps, prioritize interventions, and improve the efficiency and quality of partner engagement.
  • Support the rollout of new payment capabilities, merchant use cases, and ecosystem enhancements.
  • Partner with acquiring entities to enable new NPCI products, features, and merchant-side capabilities.
  • Support rollout of enhanced acceptance experiences, recurring payment capabilities, merchant device integrations, and enterprise payment solutions.
  • Facilitate testing, certification coordination, pilot execution, and production readiness activities.
  • Identify and develop AI-enabled use cases that improve product adoption, merchant acceptance and partner effectiveness
  • Building and maintaining AI proficiency to effectively use AI-enabled tools for analytics, decision support, productivity and ecosystem problem-solving, while applying appropriate human judgment.



Requirements
  •  Graduate in Management, Engineering, Finance, or related discipline.
  •  MBA or equivalent qualification preferred.
  •  Relationship Management
  •  Merchant Acquiring & Payment Ecosystem Knowledge
  •  UPI, Cards payments nuances
  •   Stakeholder Management
  •   Data Analysis & Business Review
  •   Problem Solving & Issue Resolution
  •   Project Coordination
  •   Effective Communication & Presentation Skills
  •  Self-Motivated and Execution-Oriented


Skills Required

  • Graduate degree in Management, Engineering, Finance, or a related discipline
  • MBA or equivalent qualification
  • Relationship management skills
  • Merchant acquiring and payment ecosystem knowledge
  • Knowledge of UPI and card payment nuances
  • Stakeholder management skills
  • Data analysis and business review skills
  • Problem-solving and issue-resolution skills
  • Project coordination skills
  • Effective communication and presentation skills
  • Self-motivated and execution-oriented approach
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The Company
HQ: Mumbai, Maharashtra
2,124 Employees
Year Founded: 2005

What We Do

NPCI is an umbrella organisation for all retail payment systems in India. It was set up with the support & guidance from Reserve Bank of India (RBI) & Indian Banks Association (IBA). A registered company under Section 8 of the Companies Act, 2013. Watch the NPCI Corporate AV - https://youtu.be/RGl9YQ6CB20 Products & Services Unified Payments Interface Unique payment solution which empowers a recipient to initiate the payment request from a smartphone. It facilitates 'virtual payment address'​ as a payment identifier for sending & collecting money & works on single click 2 factor authentication. Immediate Payment Service A 24X7, real time, cost effective, independent channel, retail payment service, introduced by NPCI, empowering customers to transfer money instantly with banks & RBI authorised PPIs across India. RuPay Robust card scheme designed to offer payment products with superior features & processes specifically designed to cater to diverse consumer needs. *99# USSD based mobile banking platform that makes banking services accessible to all the bank account holders on their mobile phones. National Automated Clearing House Centralised payment system developed with an aim to consolidate multiple ECS systems running across the country & provide a framework for the removal of local barriers/inhibitors. Aadhaar Enabled Payment System Bank led model which allows online financial inclusion transactions at micro-ATMs through the business correspondent of any bank using the Aadhaar authentication. e-KYC Electronic way of conducting authentic & real time KYC of a customer using Aadhaar authentication. Cheque Truncation System Electronic image of the cheque is transmitted to the drawee bank by the clearing house, along with relevant information. National Financial Switch Facilitates routing of ATM transactions through inter-connectivity between its member institutions thereby enabling the citizens of the country to utilise any ATM of a connected entity

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