Card Issuing & Acquiring Manager
Kampala * Full-time
DFCU Bank
KEY DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
• Define the vision, roadmap, and requirements for card products, aligning them with the bank’s business objectives.
• Stay abreast of global and regional market trends, continuously evolving the card product strategyy in line with emerging insights, opportunities and threats.
• Drive card products innovation to continuously enhance the bank’s customer value proposition and competitiveness.
• Oversee the end-to-end lifecycle of card products, including but not limited to debit, credit, virtual and prepaid cards.
• Ensure the bank’s product offerings meet scheme, regulatory requirements and industry standards.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver seamless card products enhancements, new products including their go-to-market strategies.
• Leverage Visa programs and incentives to stimulate business growth.
• Be unreasonable about customer experience across our card products and all fulfilment touchpoints including but not limited to ATMs, POSs, and online.
• Monitor customer feedback and market trends to continuously improve product offerings and fulfilment thereof.
• Implement customer retention and loyalty programs to increase product usage and satisfaction.
• Partner with customer experience, business technology and operations to ensure customer queries and issues are attended to and resolved promptly.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure efficient and secure processing of card transactions.
• Manage relationships with schemes, card fulfillment providers vendors, and partners to optimize service delivery.
• Champion risk management and compliance related to card operations.
• Lead the planning and delivery of ongoing internal cross-functional teams upskilling.
• Develop, manage and drive the realization of card portfolio revenue and cost budget.
• Daily monitoring of the card portfolio performance, implementing timely interventions to achieve revenue and profitability targets.
• Conduct financial analysis and reporting to support decision-making.
QUALIFICATIONS / SKILLS
• Bachelor’s Degree preferably in Business, Commerce and/or Management Studies.
• Scheme product, commercial, operations and risk management.
• Solid demonstrable understanding of key product marketing principles.
• 7-8 years’ experience, 5 of which should be in card management incl. operations.
• Strong practical knowledge of schemes incl. Visa and Mastercard compliance requirements and regulations.
• Understanding of key business drivers and ability to drive business output.
• Demonstrated experience interpreting and implementing schemes incl. Visa and Mastercard crule changes.
• Advanced forecasting, pricing and business modelling.
• Good computer knowledge especially spread sheets and databases, word and PowerPoint.
• Familiarity with PCI-DSS, EMV chip technology, 3D Secure, tokenization, contactless payments, and payment security standards.
• Understanding of chargeback management processes and dispute resolution procedures.
• Good interpersonal skills to work with other teams for implementation of activities.
• Business and Industrial awareness.
• Team player and ability to work with minimum supervision.
• Solutions oriented mindset.
HOW TO APPLY
If you believe you meet the requirements as noted above, please use the link below to apply;
careers.dfcugroup.com
Once there, click on “Career Opportunities†to get started. (We recommend using Google Chrome for the best experience.)
Deadline: Wednesday 15th October 2025
Only short-listed candidates will be contacted.
Please note that all recruitment terms and conditions as stated in the HR Policies and Procedures Manual shall apply.
CLICK HERE TO APPLY
Deadline: Expired
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