Padmakar's CV
Profile summary
Strategic Senior Payments Manager with 4 years of experience shaping global payment operations and commercial negotiations. Trilingual in English, Marathi, and Hindi with extensive GCC experience and cross-cultural team leadership across Africa, Asia, LATAM, and Europe. Known for reducing processing costs, scaling regional payment channels, and optimizing transaction success rates. Committed to driving scalable financial infrastructure and maintaining rigorous risk governance.
Career highlights
Global Payment Operations: Oversaw global payment gateway operations for transactions exceeding 5,000,000 in monthly processed transaction volume across Africa, Asia, LATAM, and Europe.
Commercial Negotiation: Negotiated commercial terms with payment providers, resulting in reduced processing costs by 0.5 to 2.5 percent.
Regional Channel Onboarding: Onboarded regional payment channels including UPI, PIX, and M-Pesa, resulting in increased deposit success rates by 5 percent.
Publisher Database Management: Compiled and maintained a structured database of 500 independent regional publishers, validating audience metrics and regional demographics using analytical tools.
Key skills
Professional experience
Directed global payment gateway operations across Africa, Asia, Latin America, and Europe, managing digital wallet integrations and commercial negotiations with external providers. Represented the operator at international industry events in Dubai to establish network connections and secure global payment service provider integrations.
- Managed Apple Pay and Google Pay gateways configured for high-converting player traffic.
- Negotiated commercial terms with payment providers, reducing processing costs by 0.5 to 2.5percent.
- Oversaw global payment gateway operations for transactions exceeding 5,000,000 dollars in monthly processed volume.
- Identified declining payment routes and executed PSP switches before conversion drops affected revenue.
Coordinates payment gateway integrations while collaborating cross-functionally with legal, compliance, product, and technical teams to launch new channels across regional markets.
- Manages active relationships with 15 payment gateway providers to optimize transaction success rates.
- Monitors key payment metrics including approval rate, conversion rate, and success rate by geo and PSP.
- Onboarded regional payment channels including UPI, PIX, and M-Pesa, increasing deposit success rates by 5%.
Directs daily payment operations for high-volume transaction queues involving deposits and withdrawals, ensuring system uptime and rapid execution. Reconciles payment service provider reports against internal databases, tracks failed transactions, and acts as the primary operational contact for customer support payment disputes.
- Audits user transaction histories to identify fraud, bonus abuse, multi-accounting, and suspicious behavioral patterns.
- Analyzes transaction data before approving payouts and manages withdrawal requests to ensure full correctness.
Shaped account coordination strategy, steering regional project operations and financial oversight. Managed corporate stakeholder reporting and onboarding workflows for international partners and high-profile talent.
- Maintained operational oversight for campaign budgets totaling 4M across multiple regional projects.
- Analyzed project delivery data to generate performance and ROI reports.
- Compiled and maintained a structured database of 500 independent regional publishers, validating audience metrics and regional demographics using analytical tools.
- Audited publisher profiles against strict target criteria, filtering out non-compliant entities and corporate-owned accounts to ensure database integrity.
Languages
English · Professional
Marathi · Fluent
Hindi · Fluent