[Hiring] Chief Payment Officer @UKG

Role Description

The UKG National Trust Bank (UKG NTB) Chief Payment Officer (CPO) is a senior executive responsible for leading money movement payments demonstrating operational excellence, delivering strategic, scalable technology driven product vision towards transformation, and executing customer-centric focus with cross-collaboration across the organization. This leadership role possesses experience ensuring regulatory compliance with the UKG NTB fiduciary powers OCC charter, delivering money movement strategy, platform system experience to enhance money movement operations for UKG U.S. Pro and Ready platforms and automation (API, AI & Cloud) payment rail technology integration.

This role will bring technological vision, product development and excellence, ensuring accurate and secure execution of all money movement activities, including payroll processing, taxes, collections and reconciliation. The CPO, as a member of the UKG NTB leadership team, plays a key role in developing and implementing strategies to optimize payment flows, mitigate operational risks, and manage relationships with our internal stakeholders. The CPO develops and leads an operations team with daily vision and through a technology lens of current regulatory and risk management processes, future products and systems that automate internal controls, increase efficiency, security, and align with the overall business objective of supporting UKG Pro and Ready today and into the future.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the money movement team responsible for U.S. Pro and Ready platforms, managing approximately $350 billion annually.
• Manage a remote team, providing hands-on support to processes and products to ensure compliance with OCC bank and fiduciary powers.
• Collaborate with the management team to define, develop and achieve strategic money movement goals.
• Provide expertise in payment operations, strategic vision, technological product solutions, intercompany relationships and systems knowledge.
• Ensure compliance with OCC regulations and mitigate operational risks related to payment processing.
• Collaborate with NTB management and UKG to identify enhanced payment capabilities and support integration into the company's systems.
• Drive the implementation of solutions to optimize payment flows, enhance compliance, reduce costs, and improve efficiency.
• Provide guidance and mentorship to the money movement team, fostering a high-performance regulated culture.

Qualifications

• 15+ years in SaaS-based companies encompassing money movement, product, systems integration, compliance and strategic leadership.
• Experience in a fast-paced, regulated environment with accountability for outcomes.
• Demonstrated vision to lead product development utilizing analytical, strategic and future vision to identify technology solutions.
• Proven ability to lead and mentor payment teams, manage relationships, and drive results.
• The ability to analyze data, present executive reports for the UKG NTB management and directors.
• The ability to communicate effectively with various stakeholders and collaborate across teams in a large organization.

Requirements

• Money Movement Expertise ensuring integrity and security for the money flows in the UKG NTB end-to-end payment operations ecosystems.
• Regulatory Experience in Fintech, Financial Services or public company.
• Experienced Product Strategic Leader with a focus on automation for enhanced controls, efficiencies and governance.
• Leadership and Management Skills with experience as a senior leader.
• Analytical and Problem-Solving Skills to proactively identify issues and recommend effective solutions.
• Communication and Collaboration Skills to set and meet project management timeframes.

Benefits

• Flexibility that’s real.
• Benefits you can count on.
• A team that succeeds together.

Company Description

UKG is the Workforce Operating Platform that puts workforce understanding to work. With the world's largest collection of workforce insights, and people-first AI, our ability to reveal unseen ways to build trust, amplify productivity, and empower talent, is unmatched. It's this expertise that equips our customers with the intelligence to solve any challenge in any industry — because great organizations know their workforce is their competitive edge. Learn more at ukg.com.