**Specialist Payment Processing
- Santa Ana, Costa Rica**
Think you can keep operations ticking while motivating your team?
How about using your skills in a global business that is committed to moving money for better?
Join Western Union as a Specialist, Payment Processing Operations.
**Motivated by our values: purpose driven, globally minded, and trustworthy & respectful**
We're a FinTech that's using insight from customers and colleagues worldwide to improve financial services for families, small businesses, multinational corporations, and non-profit organizations.
We're a team of over 8,000 people spanning 200 countries and territories.
We believe when money moves, better things happen.
**Better requires process, discipline, and simplification**
We are looking for a talented individual to help conceptualize and oversee multiple projects within our organization.
To this end, this person is responsible for detecting gaps that can be closed by projects, collaborating with coworkers to propose suitable endeavors, and overseeing the allocation of financial and human resources.
In so doing, you should adhere to stipulated deadlines.
To be successful in this role, you should be able to track performance across an array of developments, and harness employees' unique strengths to promote the viability of all projects.
Some of the duties this role involves are:
- Identifying needs that can be successfully addressed by projects.
- Pitching project ideas and securing approval before each project commences.
- Developing new project plans in consultation with stakeholders, including clients and staff.
- Outlining the human and material resources required to successfully complete each project.
- Formulating a resource allocation strategy and utilizing this to distribute work and finances.
- Monitoring staff performance to ensure excellence and adherence to specified deadlines.
- Evaluating each project's effectiveness by consulting with clients, consumers, and staff.
- Reporting on each project's utility upon the uptake of outputs.
- Consulting with the project department's lead to seek guidance and input during the key phase of each project.
For this role you'll need:
- A degree in a pertinent discipline.
- Recognized project management qualification.
- Demonstrable experience in projects management or similar.
- In-depth understanding of prevailing project management methods.
- Forethought, with the capacity to identify and minimize risks.
- Ability to detect and capitalize on others' strengths.
- Supervision, delegation, and capacity development abilities.
- Familiarity with tools and metrics needed to evaluate project performance.
- Ability to perceive and ameliorate conflict and tension.
**Join us, and let's move money for better**
We're a company on the move, and we want our people to grow and develop.
You'll have plenty of opportunities to learn new skills and build a career, as well as a great salary and benefits package.
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