Payments Manager · Payments & anti-fraud

Payments Manager

Keeps the money moving in and out: onboards providers, lifts deposit conversion and keeps acquiring costs under control.

Who is this and what does he do?

Gambling is a high-risk category, so payments here are always a patchwork: dozens of PSPs, local methods for every market (Pix in Brazil, SBP, e-wallets, crypto), routing cascades and providers dropping out without warning. A Payments Manager negotiates with PSPs, builds the cascades, digs into approval rate drops and watches payout speed — the metric players use to choose a casino.

Owns

  • Onboarding and managing payment providers market by market
  • Setting up cascades and transaction routing
  • Monitoring approval rate and investigating drops
  • Controlling acquiring costs and fees
  • Speeding up payouts and managing the withdrawal queue
  • Working hand in hand with fraud and compliance

What metrics are they used to evaluate?

  • Deposit approval rateshare of payments approved on the first attempt
  • Average payout time
  • Cost per processed transaction
  • Share of withdrawals completed without manual review

What should you be able to do?

Professional skills

  • The PSP landscape and local payment methods
  • Cascades and transaction routing
  • Understanding of chargebacks and card scheme rules
  • Crypto payments and stablecoins
  • Payment funnel analytics

Personal qualities

  • Negotiating with providers
  • Fast reaction to incidents
  • Precision with numbers

Tools

Payment gateways and their back officesBI dashboardsExcelJira

Languages: English C1.

How much do they pay: salaries by grade

Arbs are indicated in euros per month, without the bonus part. The data is collected on industry jobs and offers reported by candidates; The numbers are a guideline, not a guarantee.

Malta & Cyprus

GradeFork, €/monthMedian
Junior €2 300 – €3 100 €2 700
Middle €3 600 – €5 000 €4 300
Senior €5 500 – €7 500 €6 500
Head / Lead €8 500 – €13 000 €10 750

Poland, Romania, Baltics

GradeFork, €/monthMedian
Junior €1 700 – €2 300 €2 000
Middle €2 700 – €3 800 €3 250
Senior €4 200 – €6 000 €5 100
Head / Lead €6 500 – €10 000 €8 250

Remote · Tbilisi, Yerevan, Kyiv

GradeFork, €/monthMedian
Junior €1 300 – €1 900 €1 600
Middle €2 300 – €3 400 €2 850
Senior €3 600 – €5 300 €4 450
Head / Lead €5 500 – €9 000 €7 250

Bonuses: 10–25% annually, often tied to approval rate and processing cost.

How to break into the profession

From fintech, an e-commerce payments team or a casino back office. Experience with high-risk acquiring is especially prized.

Working hours: Monday to Friday with on-call duty during incidents.

Market Demand: High demand: high-risk payments expertise is a narrow market, and without it an operator cannot scale into new geos.

Where to grow next

Senior Payments ManagerHead of PaymentsChief Payments OfficerCFO

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FAQ

Do I need to understand crypto payments?

Increasingly, yes — crypto casinos and hybrid operators are now a sizeable part of the market, and stablecoin experience adds to the salary bracket.

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