Principal Consultant, Payments Strategy
6-Month Contract 2 Openings Hybrid (Toronto) or Remote (Canada)
Are you passionate about modernizing Canada's payments ecosystem?
This is a rare opportunity to join a high-impact strategic initiative where you'll help define how one of Canada's leading financial institutions evolves its connectivity to the country's next generation of payments infrastructure.
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We're looking for experienced Principal Consultants who thrive in ambiguous, complex environments and enjoy solving challenging business, regulatory, and technical problems. If you've worked on payments modernization, Canadian payments infrastructure, or strategic transformation initiatives, we'd love to hear from you.
This is not a traditional delivery role. You won't be maintaining existing systems—you'll be helping shape the future.
Advantages
Work on one of Canada's most exciting payments modernization initiatives
Influence strategic decisions that shape future payment capabilities
Collaborate with senior leaders across business and technology
Solve complex regulatory, technical, and business challenges
High-visibility engagement with meaningful executive exposure
Competitive compensation with flexibility for exceptional candidates
Opportunity for contract extension
Responsibilities
As a Principal Consultant, you'll partner with senior business and technology leaders to evaluate and define the future state of payments capabilities.
Your work will include:
Developing strategic roadmaps for payments infrastructure modernization
Evaluating connectivity to Canadian payments infrastructure, including ACSS and the Real-Time Rail (RTR)
Assessing regulatory, legal, operational, and technical requirements
Producing executive-ready recommendations, presentations, and strategic playbooks
Creating high-level solution blueprints and architectural direction
Supporting business case development, including high-level cost and benefit analysis
Collaborating with internal experts across Technology, Treasury, Risk, Legal, Compliance, and Operations
Your recommendations will directly influence executive decision-making and future investment strategy.
Qualifications
We're seeking hands-on consultants who enjoy doing the work—not managing large teams.
Ideal Experience
5–15 years of experience within the Canadian financial services industry
Deep knowledge of the Canadian payments ecosystem
Experience leading or supporting payments modernization or large-scale transformation initiatives
Strong understanding of Canadian payments infrastructure
Experience interpreting complex regulatory and policy requirements
Ability to translate technical and business findings into executive-level recommendations
Exceptional communication, presentation, and stakeholder management skills
Comfortable working independently in fast-paced, evolving environments
Industry Experience
We're interested in professionals with hands-on payments experience from organizations such as:
Canadian banks
FinTech companies
Payment service providers
Payments technology organizations
Government or industry organizations supporting Canadian payments
The most important qualification is direct experience working within the Canadian payments ecosystem.
Knowledge of the Following is Highly Valued
Canadian payments infrastructure
ACSS
Real-Time Rail (RTR)
Payments Canada rules and frameworks
The Bank Act
Payments modernization strategy
High-value clearing and settlement systems
Secure messaging and payments architecture
Summary
If you're excited about helping shape the future of payments in Canada and have the expertise to influence strategic transformation, we'd love to connect with you.
Randstad Canada is committed to fostering a workforce reflective of all peoples of Canada. As a result, we are committed to developing and implementing strategies to increase the equity, diversity and inclusion within the workplace by examining our internal policies, practices, and systems throughout the entire lifecycle of our workforce, including its recruitment, retention and advancement for all employees. In addition to our deep commitment to respecting human rights, we are dedicated to positive actions to affect change to ensure everyone has full participation in the workforce free from any barriers, systemic or otherwise, especially equity-seeking groups who are usually underrepresented in Canada's workforce, including those who identify as women or non-binary/gender non-conforming; Indigenous or Aboriginal Peoples; persons with disabilities (visible or invisible) and; members of visible minorities, racialized groups and the LGBTQ2+ community.
Randstad Canada is committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive and accessible workplace for all its candidates and employees by supporting their accessibility and accommodation needs throughout the employment lifecycle. We ask that all job applications please identify any accommodation requirements by sending an email to accessibility@randstad.ca to ensure their ability to fully participate in the interview process.
This posting is for existing and upcoming vacancies.
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Principal Consultant, Payments Strategy
6-Month Contract 2 Openings Hybrid (Toronto) or Remote (Canada)
Are you passionate about modernizing Canada's payments ecosystem?
This is a rare opportunity to join a high-impact strategic initiative where you'll help define how one of Canada's leading financial institutions evolves its connectivity to the country's next generation of payments infrastructure.
We're looking for experienced Principal Consultants who thrive in ambiguous, complex environments and enjoy solving challenging business, regulatory, and technical problems. If you've worked on payments modernization, Canadian payments infrastructure, or strategic transformation initiatives, we'd love to hear from you.
This is not a traditional delivery role. You won't be maintaining existing systems—you'll be helping shape the future.
Advantages
Work on one of Canada's most exciting payments modernization initiatives
Influence strategic decisions that shape future payment capabilities
Collaborate with senior leaders across business and technology
Solve complex regulatory, technical, and business challenges
...
High-visibility engagement with meaningful executive exposure
Competitive compensation with flexibility for exceptional candidates
Opportunity for contract extension
Responsibilities
As a Principal Consultant, you'll partner with senior business and technology leaders to evaluate and define the future state of payments capabilities.
Your work will include:
Developing strategic roadmaps for payments infrastructure modernization
Evaluating connectivity to Canadian payments infrastructure, including ACSS and the Real-Time Rail (RTR)
Assessing regulatory, legal, operational, and technical requirements
Producing executive-ready recommendations, presentations, and strategic playbooks
Creating high-level solution blueprints and architectural direction
Supporting business case development, including high-level cost and benefit analysis
Collaborating with internal experts across Technology, Treasury, Risk, Legal, Compliance, and Operations
Your recommendations will directly influence executive decision-making and future investment strategy.
Qualifications
We're seeking hands-on consultants who enjoy doing the work—not managing large teams.
Ideal Experience
5–15 years of experience within the Canadian financial services industry
Deep knowledge of the Canadian payments ecosystem
Experience leading or supporting payments modernization or large-scale transformation initiatives
Strong understanding of Canadian payments infrastructure
Experience interpreting complex regulatory and policy requirements
Ability to translate technical and business findings into executive-level recommendations
Exceptional communication, presentation, and stakeholder management skills
Comfortable working independently in fast-paced, evolving environments
Industry Experience
We're interested in professionals with hands-on payments experience from organizations such as:
Canadian banks
FinTech companies
Payment service providers
Payments technology organizations
Government or industry organizations supporting Canadian payments
The most important qualification is direct experience working within the Canadian payments ecosystem.
Knowledge of the Following is Highly Valued
Canadian payments infrastructure
ACSS
Real-Time Rail (RTR)
Payments Canada rules and frameworks
The Bank Act
Payments modernization strategy
High-value clearing and settlement systems
Secure messaging and payments architecture
Summary
If you're excited about helping shape the future of payments in Canada and have the expertise to influence strategic transformation, we'd love to connect with you.
Randstad Canada is committed to fostering a workforce reflective of all peoples of Canada. As a result, we are committed to developing and implementing strategies to increase the equity, diversity and inclusion within the workplace by examining our internal policies, practices, and systems throughout the entire lifecycle of our workforce, including its recruitment, retention and advancement for all employees. In addition to our deep commitment to respecting human rights, we are dedicated to positive actions to affect change to ensure everyone has full participation in the workforce free from any barriers, systemic or otherwise, especially equity-seeking groups who are usually underrepresented in Canada's workforce, including those who identify as women or non-binary/gender non-conforming; Indigenous or Aboriginal Peoples; persons with disabilities (visible or invisible) and; members of visible minorities, racialized groups and the LGBTQ2+ community.
Randstad Canada is committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive and accessible workplace for all its candidates and employees by supporting their accessibility and accommodation needs throughout the employment lifecycle. We ask that all job applications please identify any accommodation requirements by sending an email to accessibility@randstad.ca to ensure their ability to fully participate in the interview process.
This posting is for existing and upcoming vacancies.
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