Job Description
Role Overview
- The Merchant Onboarding team is responsible for ensuring that merchants, whether self-signed or referred by the sales team, are efficiently converted into active, transacting customers in the shortest possible time, while maintaining full adherence to regulatory compliance requirements and delivering a seamless onboarding experience.
Core Operational Responsibilities
- Review Merchant’s KYC and ensure all documents provided are in line with Standard Operating Procedures and Regulatory Requirements.
- Work with the Compliance team in activation of Merchant’s accounts.
- Reviewing Logged tickets by the Customer Support team and ensuring complete resolution of such tickets.
- Monitor Support Channels (Zendesk, E-mails, Whatsapp, Teams and Slack) for
- Onboarding/Integration escalations, and treat such requests in a timely manner.
- Liaise with the sales team to properly understand the Merchant’s use case in order to provide the necessary API’s required for Merchant’s Integration.
- Follow up with Merchants (Bi-weekly-Semi) to check in on their Integration and provide assistance/support where necessary.
- Work hand in hand with other teams i.e technical product team to escalate technical issues experienced by merchants and also monitor such requests till resolution.
- Configure Merchant fees and charging profiles. Also enabling changes to merchant contracts as advised by the sales team.
- Work with the Product Manager/ Product team and other internal stakeholders to make any product changes that would improve customer experience.
- Business information changes (settlement account, fees, email, phone number etc.).
Expected Skills:
- Payments & Fintech Knowledge -Familiarity with regulatory environments (especially in Nigeria) , Payment gateways, APIs, and transaction flows.
- Analytical & Problem-Solving Skills- Diagnose onboarding failures, Identify patterns in merchant issues and Escalate intelligently with context.
- CRM tool expert skills-Excel / Google Sheets (advanced level), Zendesk, E-mails, WhatsApp, Teams and Slack.
- Educational Background -Fintech (strongly preferred), Banking / payments operations, SaaS onboarding or customer success and Compliance/KYC operations
- Technical Capability- Basic to intermediate understanding of: APIs endpoints, authentication keys, Webhooks, JSON responses, ability to read API documentation and Support merchants during integration to support in the preliminary integration phase.
Execution Capability skills:
- Risk & Compliance Awareness skills
- Cross-Functional Collaboration Skills
- Candidate selection/ Great candidate; will have
- Fintech exposure
- Basic API understanding
- Strong communication.
- Operational discipline
- KYC & Compliance awareness.