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Interim assignments
I am a seasoned transformation expert with a strong record in delivering impactful results across international Online, POS, and Unified Commerce payment solutions. Equipped with deep industry knowledge, I provide rapid, actionable insights to support clear and effective decision-making.
Ideal for companies seeking flexible, high-level expertise to guide them through the selection, contracting, implementation and optimisation of payment solutions.
With extensive experience in vendor management, fraud and dispute process optimisation, implementation, transformation, conversion optimisation, sourcing, and purchasing, I have a thorough grasp of the complexities in Online, POS, and Unified Commerce payments.
Stakeholder needs will be effectively translated into payment solutions that maximise value and align with organisational strategy.
Deployment is flexible, seamlessly integrating into projects with either fixed or variable budget structures.
Named references
Versuni (Philips Home Appliances). Senior payment expertise without adding a permanent hire.
Staples Solutions. Hands-on senior payment capacity inside an international, multidisciplinary team, for a pan-European PSP implementation.
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Does any of the following challenges apply to you?
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Roles I take on
An interim assignment fills a role inside your team. These are the roles I take on.
Interim head of payments. Owner of the PSP and acquirer relationships, the BNPL partners, the payment roadmap and the payment budget until the permanent hire starts, with a handover the new hire can work from.
PSP migration and consolidation lead. Moving markets, channels or entities onto one provider or onto a new one: the contract, onboarding, the integration plan and the cutover per market, with authorisation rate and settlement watched through every step.
Programme manager for a unified commerce rollout. Online, in-store and the terminals brought onto one payment set-up, coordinated between the provider, the commerce platform, store operations and finance.
Owner of fraud screening and disputes. Screening rules, 3DS and the use of exemptions, chargeback handling and representment, set up as a process with the figures to steer it.
Payment lead in a re-platforming. The payment scope of a new commerce platform: the methods per market, the integration choice, testing and the go-live.
Bridge between payments and finance. Settlement, reconciliation and the cash forecast per PSP and payment method, set up so that finance can run it.
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Payments in a transaction
When a retailer or brand changes owner, its payment set-up changes with it. PSP contracts carry change-of-control clauses, merchant accounts can sit in the seller's entity, every provider reviews the new ownership, and the cost and performance position is rarely measured. I work for the buyer, the seller or the company itself, on transactions where the company is a merchant. The work covers contracts, cost and performance, not the technical due diligence; I work closely with whoever owns that part.
Buy-side due diligence. The payment cost and performance baseline in the model before signing.
Buy-and-build. Two payment set-ups to consolidate after an add-on, with the combined volumes negotiated once.
Carve-out. Own PSP contracts, merchant accounts and settlement into the new entity by Day 1, and the payment scope of the transitional services agreement.
Exit preparation. A measured cost position and a clean contract register before the buyer asks for them.
Payment due diligence: what is measured and what the deal team receives
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How an assignment runs
The scope, the role and the term are agreed before the start. I work inside your team, in your governance and your tools, on site where it matters and remotely where it does not. The number of days per week follows the phase of the work, and the budget can be fixed or variable.
Where an assignment includes a PSP selection or a renegotiation, it runs on the same method as a payment RFP or a PSP cost renegotiation, from inside your team.
Every assignment ends with a handover: the contracts, the decisions and the reasoning behind them, the open items and the figures, written down so that the person who takes over can run it the next day.
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Independent
I work exclusively for merchants. No PSP mandates, no acquirer partnerships and no revenue share with providers. Inside your team that means a provider is chosen, kept or replaced on your figures alone.
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Versuni needed senior payment expertise without adding a permanent hire. Kamèr Aykaz on what that delivered.
Kamèr Aykaz, Global Direct to Consumer Sales Director, Versuni (Philips Home Appliances)
One conversation is enough to know whether there is anything here
A thirty-minute Teams call, on your own figures. Nothing to prepare, the outline is enough.
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Clients worked for
