About the team:
Capital Markets is part of Capco’s DNA. In fact, the Capco name was inspired by this domain. The Capital Markets team delivers expert consulting skills and deep product and functional knowledge across all areas of the front office, operations, technology, risk, finance and compliance. Our clients include the largest investment banks, global universal banks and capital markets divisions from regional banks across the country and around the globe.
Our delivery expertise spans across launching new lines of business, coordinating high-impact regulatory response programs, leading complex integration projects and analyzing the dependencies in an application rationalization effort. We have a consistent track record in helping clients with significant cost reductions and ensuring our clients grow, change and compete.’
About the Job:
As an Institutional Payments Lead within the Capital Markets practice, you will advise global banks, capital markets firms, and institutional clients on transforming their payment capabilities. You will lead engagements focused on strategy, operating model design, regulatory readiness, and technology enablement across the institutional payments landscape. This role combines deep domain expertise with consulting acumen to deliver high-impact solutions in a rapidly evolving payments ecosystem.
What You’ll Get to Do:
- Lead client engagements focused on institutional payment strategy, modernization, and operational transformation.
- Advise on payment infrastructure upgrades (e.g., ISO 20022, real-time payments, SWIFT gpi), treasury optimization, and cross-border payment flows.
- Develop business cases, target operating models, and implementation roadmaps for institutional payment initiatives.
- Produce white papers, POVs, and client presentations on emerging trends in institutional payments, including digital assets, CBDCs, and DLT.
- Represent the firm at industry events and contribute to thought leadership in payments innovation and regulatory change.
- Support business development efforts by identifying opportunities, shaping proposals, and participating in client pitches.
- Mentor junior consultants and contribute to capability building within the payments advisory team.
- Work closely with technology, risk, and compliance teams to deliver integrated solutions.
- Partner with product and operations leaders across client organizations to align strategy with execution.
What you’ll bring with You:
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Economics, or related field; MBA or equivalent preferred.
- 8–12 years of experience in institutional payments, treasury services, or transaction banking, with at least 3 years in a consulting or advisory role.
- Strong understanding of payment systems (SWIFT, Fedwire, CHIPS), market infrastructures (CLS, DTCC), and regulatory frameworks (e.g., PSD2, AML, KYC).
- Experience advising on digital transformation, fintech partnerships, or payment modernization programs.
- Familiarity with capital markets payment flows (e.g., margin calls, collateral movements, FX settlements).
- Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and analytical skills.
- Proven ability to lead client engagements and deliver strategic recommendations.
Why Capco?
A career at Capco is a chance to help reshape the competitive landscape in financial services. We launch new banks, transform existing ones, and help our clients navigate complex change. As consultants, we work on the front-end business design all the way through to technology implementation.
We are the largest Financial Services focused consultancy in the world, serving everyone from global banks to emerging FinTechs, from strategy through digital transformation, design, business consulting, data and analytics, cyber, cloud, technology architecture, and engineering.
Capco is a young and growing firm. We maintain an entrepreneurial spirit and growth mindset and have minimal bureaucracy. We have no internal silos that get in the way of your career opportunities or ability to focus on our clients and make a difference to the business. We offer the opportunity for everyone to learn rapidly, take on tough challenges, and get promoted quickly. We take pride in our creative, collaborative, diverse, and inclusive culture, where everyone can #BYAW.
We offer highly competitive benefits, including medical, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan, tuition reimbursement, and a work culture focused on innovation and creation of lasting value for our clients and employees.
Ready to take the Next Step
If this sounds like you, we would love to hear from you. This is an opportunity to make a difference and contribute to a highly successful company with a significant growth trajectory.
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What We Do
Capco, a Wipro company, is a global management and technology consultancy specializing in driving transformation in the energy and financial services industries. Capco operates at the intersection of
business and technology by combining innovative thinking with unrivalled industry knowledge to fast-track digital initiatives for banking and payments, capital markets, wealth and asset management, insurance,
and the energy sector. Capco’s cutting edge ingenuity is brought to life through its award-winning Be Yourself At Work culture and diverse talent.
TRUSTED ADVISORS - Our collaborative and entrepreneurial approach position us as trusted long-term partners to our clients.
DEEP EXPERTISE - Clients look to us for clear guidance, proven expertise, and the support they need to set their companies up for success.
DISRUPTIVE SOLUTIONS- We do not provide off -the-shelf answers to clients’ challenges. Instead, we work in close collaboration to understand the issues, and craft disruptive, bespoke solutions.
ACCOUNTABILITY AND OWNERSHIP - We recognize every client has distinct needs and expectations, and we take ownership and accountability for the solutions we design, build, and deliver.
Why Work With Us
We support and encourage an inclusive culture, entrepreneurial outlook and independent thinking. Capco is not about organizational charts and rigid hierarchies – we want all employees to feel that Capco is their firm to own and run. We believe diversity powers innovation. Be Yourself At Work (#BYAW) is an integral and underlying part of our culture
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