🚀 Be part of a movement to change the way Europe pays

In today’s digital world, payments often still feel outdated: random delays and confusing rules make it harder than it should be to pay and get paid. The European Payments Initiative (EPI) is here to change all that, forever.

With Wero, our digital wallet, we make sending and receiving money simple, seamless and secure across France, Belgium and Germany, with more countries and omnichannel solutions coming soon. Supported by 14 major banks and the two largest European acquirers, EPI is building a new, proudly European payment system: easy, instant and transparent, all for the greater good.

🔎 What's in it for you

Tired of delivering notes and proposals without knowing how your recommendations will be implemented? You want to leave your consulting firm and work on a meaningful project? You want to have an impact on a truly innovative large scale European product? You're interested in joining a start up supported by some of the largest European banks? This job might be for you.

💥 Your impact

You will report to our Chief Integration Officer and work closely with the broader executive team to drive EPI’s transformation strategy and post-merger integration efforts. This role sits at the core of EPI’s ambition to become a leading pan-European payments champion, ensuring seamless alignment between integration and transformational strategic goals as well as operational execution.

You will contribute to achieving our Target Operating Model (TOM) - our big-picture vision - by supporting the integration of Payconiq and iDEAL into EPI, while also driving broader transformation and strategic coordination efforts across the group.

Your key responsibilities:

• Lead and coordinate strategic transformation initiatives, including post-merger integration (PMI), organizational change, and implementation of the Target Operating Model.
• Oversee cross-functional strategic topics that span Legal, Finance, HR, and other departments ensuring structure and progress.
• Own overall responsibility for specific current and future acquisitions or joint ventures, including synergy planning, cultural alignment, and process integration.
• Support strategic planning across business units, ensuring cross-departmental initiatives align with long-term company goals.
• Coordinate strategic governance activities, including alignment across subsidiaries and preparation for management or supervisory board engagements.
• Contribute to select strategic focus areas such as organizational design, geographic expansion strategy, group-level planning, and intercompany structuring.
• Monitor and report on transformation performance metrics and KPIs to ensure execution stays on track.
• Provide structured insights and recommendations to the C-level through data-driven analysis and high-quality executive communication.
  
  

✅ If you had joined us last month, here’s what you could have done

• Been involved in multiple integration workstreams focusing on Payconiq International and Currence iDEAL and working towards the target operating model around topics like platform and infrastructure, financial planning, and HR integration strategy (to name a few).
• Been supporting multiple strategic topics including M&A, Corporate Set-up and Restructuring
• Been part of the announced market entry of Wero in Luxembourg
• Been part of our annual Team Gathering in Sitges (Spain).
  
  

🕵🏻‍♀️ To succeed, you should meet at least 70% of these requirements

• You’re a structured thinker, quick to grasp complexity, and able to drive clarity across stakeholders (must have).
• 5+ years of experience in strategy consulting, ideally with exposure to Financial Services, M&A, or Private Equity.
• A proven track record in strategic project or program management.
• Hands-on experience with business transformation, operating model design, or post-merger integration.
• Familiarity with the Dutch—and ideally broader European—banking and payments landscape.
• Strong stakeholder and program management skills; comfortable in multicultural and matrixed environments.
• Fluent in English (C1/C2); Dutch, French, or German is a strong plus.
• Advanced proficiency in PowerPoint and Excel; skilled at using data to inform decisions and craft clear narratives.
• Detail-oriented, responsive, and able to work independently in a fast-paced environment.
• A root-cause problem solver who goes beyond symptoms to identify sustainable solutions.
• Comfortable in a hybrid, cross-border setup with occasional travel (2–4 times per month mostly to Amsterdam, but Brussels, Berlin, Frankfurt, Paris as needed).
  
  

🐝 About the team

You will be the third member of Integration Management Office, led by Amir, who has an impressive experience as a researcher, entrepreneur, senior Manager at Deloitte and Director of Digital Payment at the Deutsche Sparkasse, where he supported the first steps of EPI.

🪜 If this looks like you, the recruitment steps are:

1. A first call with one of our recruiters
2. An interview focused on the mission and your expertise
3. Possibly, a business case 
4. An interview focused on our company skills
5. Hopefully, an offer you can’t refuse
   
   

⛔ Turn back if …

If you thrive only in well processed and resourceful environments, EPI is probably not for you. We are a solidly backed yet young start-up with high and innovative ambitions on a very complex, regulated and competitive market: you will need autonomy, be used to ambiguity, and not be afraid to get your hands dirty.

Otherwise apply!

🫶 Our commitment to equal employment opportunities

EPI offers the same job opportunities to all, without distinction of gender, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, social status, disability or age. EPI promotes the development of an inclusive work environment that mirrors the diversity of the clients our product is serving.