Pay.UK

Payments underpin nearly every transaction we make; how we receive our salaries; how we pay for coffee in the morning; how we keep the wheels of commerce turning. Around 39 billion payments were made in the UK last year. Created from the consolidation of the three main UK Retail Bank to Bank Payment Systems (FPS, BACS, ICS), Pay.UK is now the sole UK Retail Payment Systems Operator for intra bank payments.

Pay.UK is now looking to appoint up to 5 new members to its End User Advisory Council (EUAC). The Council advises and challenges our Board to ensure the needs of end users, now and in future, are correctly understood and addressed in our strategy and work. The group has early insight into our thinking and proposals, so is able to influence plans and ideas at an early stage. The Council also provides guidance and advice on how wider engagement should be approached with end users and their representatives.

For these appointments we are particularly interested in candidates with the following backgrounds:

• large scale users (local authority, utility, merchant)
• general consumer (competition and markets background)
• technology (with a particular focus on the potential for technology to improve customer experience and/or the use of technology in products and services using the payments system)

Successful candidates will bring experience operating at a senior level with the ability to contribute to and influence council discussions and activities.  Strategic and analytical in approach, they will think innovatively around complex regulatory issues with impartiality and sound judgment.

Saxton Bampfylde Ltd is acting as an employment agency advisor to Pay.UK on this appointment. For further information about the role, including details about how to apply, please visit www.saxbam.com/appointments using reference QACE. Alternatively telephone +44 (0)20 7227 0880 (during office hours). Applications should be received by noon on 21^st March 2022.