Clear Junction

FCA-authorised payments infrastructure provider

Pre-Sales and Client Implementation Manager

Implementation & Technical Account ManagementConfirmed live in the last 24 hours

Full-timeLondon, UKNo salary listed

About the Job

Requirements

At least 4 years of experience in fintech, payments, banking, or financial services, ideally in a client-facing solutions, pre-sales, implementation, onboarding, customer success, or product-related role.
Demonstrable experience working directly with B2B clients, understanding their business requirements, and translating them into practical product or service solutions.
Proven experience managing or coordinating end-to-end client implementations, from requirements gathering and solution design through onboarding, technical integration, activation, and post-go-live support.
Experience working with payment products and infrastructure, with a good understanding of payment accounts, domestic and cross-border payments, payment rails, foreign exchange, application programming interfaces (APIs), and transaction flows.
Experience supporting complex or non-standard client requirements and coordinating multiple internal stakeholders to determine appropriate solutions.
Experience working in a regulated environment and collaborating with Risk, Compliance, and Legal teams as part of solution design and client onboarding.
Experience delivering client presentations, product demonstrations, workshops, or solution discussions, and acting confidently as a subject matter expert.
Experience creating and maintaining implementation documentation, client guides, process documentation, templates, and internal knowledge materials.
Strong understanding of the B2B payments and fintech ecosystem, including the commercial and operational considerations involved in delivering payment solutions to clients.
Ability to understand payment flows and translate client requirements into clearly defined business, operational, and technical requirements.
Good understanding of API-based integrations and technical implementation concepts, and ability to hold credible conversations with client technical teams and internal IT and Product teams.
Understanding of client onboarding, implementation, and activation processes within a regulated financial services environment.
Ability to understand client objectives, identify underlying requirements, and design practical solutions using available products and capabilities.
Ability to communicate complex product, operational, and technical concepts clearly and accessibly, and manage client expectations throughout implementation.
Commercial awareness of client relationships, balancing customer requirements with product capabilities, operational feasibility, risk, and business objectives.
Ability to manage multiple implementations, dependencies, milestones, risks, and stakeholders simultaneously.
Ability to coordinate effectively across Sales, Relationship Management, Product, Risk, Compliance, Legal, Operations, and IT, driving decisions and actions without necessarily having direct authority over those teams.
Ability to identify implementation challenges, investigate root causes, and coordinate solutions before issues affect clients.
Technical aptitude to work with technical concepts, APIs, integrations, and payment flows without needing to be a software engineer.
Ability to take responsibility for progressing client implementations and follow issues through to resolution.
Attention to detail when managing complex client requirements, documentation, approvals, and implementation dependencies.
Ability to use client and internal feedback to identify opportunities to simplify onboarding, improve documentation, and strengthen products and processes.

Responsibilities

Partner with Sales and Relationship Management to understand prospective and existing clients’ needs and design tailored solutions.
Create and track client solution descriptions from initial assessment through post-implementation adoption.
Deliver product, service, and solution presentations, acting as the primary subject matter expert for client queries.
Work with Risk, Compliance, Product, Legal, IT, and other teams to ensure solutions are compliant and fit for purpose.
Provide activation and post-go-live support during the initial hypercare period, coordinating issue resolution.
Gather client feedback during and after implementation to inform continuous improvement.
Translate approved commercial proposals into structured implementation roadmaps.
Support Sales and Relationship Management throughout onboarding, setup, and activation, including client calls, gathering client information, and ensuring clients understand the solution and each stage of onboarding.
Help clients navigate key onboarding milestones and flag information or decisions needed to keep implementation on track.
Coordinate internal approvals for non-standard client requests with relevant teams.
Develop agendas for and participate in client handover calls to support a smooth transition to ongoing account management.
Oversee end-to-end onboarding, including account setup, technical integration, and sandbox readiness.
Identify, manage, and escalate implementation risks, bottlenecks, or delays as needed.
Develop and maintain client-facing and internal implementation documentation, templates, and onboarding materials.
Contribute to the internal knowledge base on products, services, and implementation processes.
Act as an internal subject matter expert and consultant for client-facing teams.
Partner with the Product team to develop and deliver training on new products, services, and processes.
Collaborate with Product, Operations, Legal, and IT teams to share insights and improve processes.

Desired Qualifications

Experience providing training or knowledge-sharing sessions to Sales, Relationship Management, or other client-facing teams would be advantageous.

Pre Sales and Client Implementation Manager

Clear Junction · London, United Kingdom · Full-time · Posted 2026-09-18

Workplace: on_site

Description

Since 2016, we at Clear Junction have been providing regulated, end-to-end payment infrastructure that financial companies rely on. Built on proprietary in-house technology, our solutions are designed to effortlessly meet the complex, growing demands of the global financial sector. Our footprint spans the UK and mainland Europe with a dedicated team of over 150 fintech professionals. Our success speaks for itself: recognised as the UK's fastest-growing, founder-led, privately owned business, we are proud to be featured on both The Sunday Times 100 List and the Financial Times Top 100 fastest-growing companies in Europe.

About the Role

The Pre-Sales and Client Implementation Manager bridges Sales, Onboarding, Relationship Management, and technical delivery, designing tailored solutions for prospective and existing clients and guiding new clients through a smooth implementation and activation journey. Acting as the primary product and solutions expert for client-facing teams, this role works closely with Risk, Compliance, Product, Legal, Client Operations and IT to ensure every solution is compliant, clearly understood by the client, and delivered successfully from proposal through to go-live and beyond.

Key Responsibilities

Designing Client Solutions

Partner with Sales and Relationship Management to understand the needs of prospective and existing clients and design tailored solutions.
Create and track Client solution descriptions from the point of the initial assessment to post implementation adoption
Deliver product, service and solution presentations, acting as the primary subject matter expert for client queries.
Work with Risk, Compliance, Product, Legal, IT and other teams to ensure solutions are compliant and fit for purpose.
Provide activation and post-go-live support during the initial “hypercare” period, coordinating resolution of any issues.
Gather client feedback during and after implementation to inform continuous improvement.

Client Onboarding & Implementation

Translate approved commercial proposals into structured implementation roadmaps.
Support Sales and Relationship Management throughout onboarding, setup and activation – including client calls, gathering client information, and ensuring clients understand the solution and each stage of the onboarding process.
Help clients navigate key onboarding milestones, flagging where information or decisions are needed to keep implementation on track.
Coordinate internal approvals for non-standard client requests, working with relevant teams.
Develop the agenda for, and participate in, client handover calls to ensure a smooth transition to ongoing account management.
Oversee end-to-end onboarding, including account setup, technical integration and sandbox readiness.
Identify, manage and escalate implementation risks, bottlenecks or delays as needed.

Knowledge, Documentation & Collaboration

Develop and maintain client-facing and internal implementation documentation, templates and onboarding materials.
Contribute to the internal knowledge base on products, services and implementation processes.
Act as an internal subject matter expert and consultant for client-facing teams.
Partner with the Product team to develop and deliver training on new products, services and processes.
Collaborate closely with Product, Operations, Legal and IT teams to share insights and improve processes.

Requirements

Experience

4+ years of experience in fintech, payments, banking or financial services, ideally within a client-facing solutions, pre-sales, implementation, onboarding, customer success or product-related role.
Demonstrable experience working directly with B2B clients, understanding their business requirements and translating these into practical product or service solutions.
Proven experience managing or coordinating end-to-end client implementations, from requirements gathering and solution design through onboarding, technical integration, activation and post-go-live support.
Experience working with payment products and infrastructure, with a good understanding of areas such as payment accounts, domestic and cross-border payments, payment rails, FX, APIs and transaction flows.
Experience supporting complex or non-standard client requirements and coordinating multiple internal stakeholders to determine appropriate solutions.
Experience working in a regulated environment and collaborating with Risk, Compliance and Legal teams as part of solution design and client onboarding.
Experience delivering client presentations, product demonstrations, workshops or solution discussions, with the ability to act confidently as a subject matter expert.
Experience creating and maintaining implementation documentation, client guides, process documentation, templates and internal knowledge materials.
Experience providing training or knowledge-sharing sessions to Sales, Relationship Management or other client-facing teams would be advantageous.

Knowledge & Technical Capability

Strong understanding of the B2B payments and fintech ecosystem, including the commercial and operational considerations involved in delivering payment solutions to clients.
Ability to understand payment flows and translate client requirements into clearly defined business, operational and technical requirements.
Good understanding of API-based integrations and technical implementation concepts, with the ability to hold credible conversations with both client technical teams and internal IT/Product teams.
Understanding of client onboarding, implementation and activation processes within a regulated financial services environment.

Core Skills & Competencies

Solution-oriented thinking – Able to understand what a client is trying to achieve, identify underlying requirements and design practical solutions using available products and capabilities.

Client communication – Confident in communicating complex product, operational and technical concepts in clear, accessible language and managing client expectations throughout implementation.

Commercial awareness – Understands the commercial context of client relationships and balances customer requirements with product capabilities, operational feasibility, risk and business objectives.

Project and implementation management – Highly organised and able to manage multiple implementations, dependencies, milestones, risks and stakeholders simultaneously.

Stakeholder management – Able to coordinate effectively across Sales, Relationship Management, Product, Risk, Compliance, Legal, Operations and IT, driving decisions and actions without necessarily having direct authority over the teams involved.

Problem solving – Proactive in identifying implementation challenges, investigating root causes and coordinating appropriate solutions before issues impact the client.

Technical aptitude – Comfortable working with technical concepts, APIs, integrations and payment flows without needing to be a software engineer.

Ownership and accountability – Takes responsibility for progressing client implementations and follows issues through to resolution rather than simply handing them to another team.

Attention to detail – Able to manage complex client requirements, documentation, approvals and implementation dependencies accurately.

Continuous improvement mindset – Uses client and internal feedback to identify opportunities to simplify onboarding, improve documentation and strengthen products and processes.

Benefits

25 days holiday (plus bank holidays)
Private Medical Insurance: You will be eligible for our full Private Medical & Dental Cover (after probationary period)
Life Assurance
Employee Assistance Programme plus Rewards and Perks Discount with YuLife
Enhanced Company Pension Scheme

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About the Company

Clear Junction

FCA-authorised payments infrastructure provider

Clear Junction provides compliance-first payments infrastructure for regulated financial institutions. It helps banks, EMIs, PSPs, acquirers, and digital asset firms move and manage payments globally by using its proprietary platform to onboard for correspondent and collection accounts, issue virtual IBANs, access GBP and EUR domestic rails, and process fiat and stablecoin payouts. The product works through a suite of regulated, enterprise-grade services across its UK and Canadian entities, enabling onboarding, routing, and settlement for traditional fiat and digital assets while maintaining strong regulatory compliance. The company differentiates itself with its global regulatory footprint, multiple licensed entities, and a dedicated focus on bridging traditional finance with crypto and digital assets. Its goal is to provide a scalable, compliant payments backbone for regulated financial institutions worldwide, enabling them to operate across borders and asset classes.

Company size: 51-200
Company stage: Not listed
Total funding: Not listed
Headquarters: London, United Kingdom
Founded: 2016

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