Solutions Consultant - Payments

Senior Solutions Consultant – Payments (Card Present)

Location : France (Hybrid/Flexible)

Help Shape the Future of Payments

Are you passionate about payment technology and thrive at the intersection of customer engagement, solution design and commercial success?

We're looking for a Senior Solutions Consultant / Pre-Sales Consultant to join a market-leading payments organisation supporting enterprise customers across France. This is a highly visible customer-facing role where you'll partner with Sales to design innovative payment acceptance and acquiring solutions that solve complex business challenges.

If you enjoy engaging with major retailers, payment providers, acquirers and financial institutions—and want to influence strategic payment transformation projects—this could be your next career move.

What You'll Be Doing

• Partner with Sales to qualify opportunities and develop winning solution strategies.
• Lead customer discovery workshops, technical presentations and product demonstrations.
• Translate business and technical requirements into commercially viable payment solutions.
• Respond to RFPs/RFIs and create compelling solution proposals.
• Work closely with Product, Delivery and Engineering teams to ensure successful customer outcomes.
• Act as the trusted technical advisor throughout the sales cycle.

We're Looking For Someone Who Has

• Proven experience as a Solutions Consultant, Pre-Sales Consultant, Solution Engineer or Technical Consultant within the payments industry.
• Strong knowledge of card-present payment acceptance and payment processing.
• A track record of designing customised payment solutions for enterprise customers.
• Excellent presentation, workshop facilitation and stakeholder management skills.
• Strong commercial awareness with the ability to balance technical excellence and business value.
• Fluent French with professional English.

Payments Expertise

You'll bring strong experience across one or more of the following areas:

Payment Acceptance

• POS terminals including Ingenico, Verifone and PAX
• Retail, Fuel, Parking, Vending and Unattended Payments
• Payment messaging standards including ISO 8583, ISO 20022, Nexo and CB2A

Payment Processing & Acquiring

• Merchant acquiring and transaction lifecycle
• Authorisation, clearing, settlement and reconciliation
• Scheme connectivity including Visa, Mastercard and Carte Bancaire
• Fraud prevention, payment security and regulatory compliance

Gateway & Platform Technologies

• Payment orchestration
• eCommerce and alternative payment methods
• Terminal driving and ATM processing

Additional experience in payment connectivity and networking would be highly valued, including:

• PCI DSS and P2PE
• Secure payment connectivity
• VPN, LAN/WAN and IP networking
• Wallets and digital commerce technologies

Why Join?

• Work on some of the most exciting payment transformation programmes in France.
• Join a collaborative, high-performing international team.
• Influence major customer engagements from discovery through solution design.
• Competitive salary of up to €82,000 , 15% commission , (flexibility on the salary for truly exceptional candidates)

If you're ready to play a key role in helping some of France's leading organisations modernise their payment infrastructure, we'd love to hear from you.

ONLY OPEN TO EU RESIDENCE WHO ARE EITHER IN FRANCE OR WILL RELOCATE TO FRANCE AND SPEAK FRENCH AND ENGLISH FLUENTLY