Managing Partner – Value Creation — Payments Portfolio

The mandate

Following two years of uneven execution, the board is addressing expansion of a value-creation practice beyond founder-led delivery within a privately held diversified financial-services platform. The immediate arena is the payments portfolio during a new cross-border growth thesis. For mandate 014, the successful executive inherits decisions that have been deferred, competing stakeholder expectations and a need to establish facts before committing further capital.

The Managing Partner – Value Creation operating perimeter covers approximately ₹5,100 crore in assets under oversight, with activity spanning several payments portfolio customer, product and delivery clusters rather than a single asset. The Managing Partner – Value Creation Financial Services remit carries direct influence over roughly 325 colleagues and third-party capacity.

The chair, executive committee and principal capital sponsors want a Managing Partner – Value Creation who can convert ambiguity into a short list of explicit choices for the payments portfolio. The Managing Partner – Value Creation Financial Services seat must resolve a new cross-border growth thesis, while preserving the underlying strengths of the payments portfolio. For mandate 014, value will come through sharper allocation, stronger leaders and an operating cadence that exposes variance early.

The Managing Partner – Value Creation’s first year on the payments portfolio is expected to end with repeatable client impact, senior hiring and durable fee growth. In mandate 014, authority covers resources and leadership appointments; material trade-offs go directly to the board sponsor.

Why this seat is open

This is an urgent replacement for the Managing Partner – Value Creation — Payments Portfolio seat following an accelerated leadership transition. Interim accountability is in place for the payments portfolio, but the board wants a permanent appointment within 6–8 weeks because a new cross-border growth thesis cannot remain under split ownership. The predecessor’s outcome is being handled neutrally and professionally. The external search remains confidential until the preferred candidate and transition plan are agreed.

What you will own

• Set the Managing Partner – Value Creation value-creation thesis for the payments portfolio, translate it into no more than five enterprise priorities and stop work that does not support them.
• Carry stewardship of approximately ₹5,100 crore in assets under oversight, including allocation, risk acceptance and board forecasts.
• Lead the Managing Partner – Value Creation Financial Services organisation of about 325 employees and partners, appointing a team with clear decision rights and credible succession for every critical seat.
• Resolve the payments portfolio economics and execution constraints created by a new cross-border growth thesis, with Managing Partner – Value Creation-approved owners, dated milestones and transparent escalation thresholds.
• Establish one Managing Partner – Value Creation operating review across commercial, customer, financial, people, technology and risk outcomes for the payments portfolio; remove reconciliations that obscure accountability.
• Bring a verifiable book of trusted board relationships and evidence of building partner economics beyond personal billings in mandate 014.
• Build the Managing Partner – Value Creation’s three-year succession and capability plan for the payments portfolio, reducing dependence on individual executives and improving mobility across the wider Financial Services organisation.

The first 12 months

• Days 1–90: Validate the payments portfolio baseline, meet the 30 stakeholders most consequential to expansion of a value-creation practice beyond founder-led delivery, assess the leadership team, stabilise immediate delivery risks and agree a board-owned scorecard with explicit decision gates.
• Months 4–9: Make the principal Managing Partner – Value Creation portfolio and organisation choices for the payments portfolio, install the new operating cadence, fill critical leadership gaps and deliver the first measurable release of cash, capacity or customer value.
• Months 10–12: Demonstrate a repeatable payments portfolio trend against repeatable client impact, senior hiring and durable fee growth, lock the following year’s capital and talent plan, evidence control sustainability and present a credible three-year value case with downside actions.

What the board will measure

• Delivery of the Managing Partner – Value Creation’s agreed first-year payments portfolio value case within a 10% tolerance, with variance explained before rather than after the relevant quarter closes.
• A Managing Partner – Value Creation forecast that remains decision-useful across three consecutive quarters and reconciles the payments portfolio’s operating, cash, customer and people assumptions.
• Closure of the Managing Partner – Value Creation mandate’s highest-priority payments portfolio risk and execution issues by their board-approved dates, with independent evidence that fixes are sustained.
• Retention of at least 90% of critical payments portfolio talent and ready-now successors for at least 70% of the Managing Partner – Value Creation’s direct reports.
• A quantified Managing Partner – Value Creation-owned improvement in the payments portfolio operating constraint behind a new cross-border growth thesis, supported by a clean baseline and named data owner.
• Clear stakeholder confidence in mandate 014: no unresolved high-severity escalation older than 30 days and no material surprise withheld from its agreed governance forum.

The person

You are currently a Managing Partner, Operating Partner or Transformation Practice Head in a privately held Financial Services or adjacent enterprise. In relation to the payments portfolio, your Managing Partner – Value Creation track record includes a transition where the original plan was no longer sufficient; you can explain your choices, evidence and numerical impact. Candidates from banking, insurance, payments, wealth or regulated fintech will be considered where the operating model, customer stakes and governance intensity match this Managing Partner – Value Creation brief.

As a Managing Partner – Value Creation candidate, you bring 28+ years of progressive Financial Services or adjacent-sector experience, consistent with the 28-plus experience band. At minimum, you have carried a P&L, book, budget or accountable portfolio of ₹2,950 crore and led an organisation of at least 225 people. Advisory seats require equivalent payments portfolio client-value ownership and multi-disciplinary leadership.

For mandate 014, the board wants two transitions: a difficult payments portfolio portfolio choice and a leadership-system change during a new cross-border growth thesis. As the prospective Managing Partner – Value Creation for this payments portfolio, you must challenge optimistic cases and still create followership. References for mandate 014 must distinguish your contribution from the institution around you.

The Managing Partner – Value Creation role in Financial Services is based in Hyderabad; relocation is expected, although a structured weekly commute may be considered during the first quarter.

Non-negotiables

• Current or recent accountability at the level of Managing Partner, Operating Partner or Transformation Practice Head, with direct exposure to a board, investment committee or equivalent Financial Services governance forum.
• Proven Managing Partner – Value Creation ownership of at least ₹2,950 crore and leadership of no fewer than 225 employees in a comparable payments portfolio context.
• One completed Financial Services or adjacent-sector example of expansion of a value-creation practice beyond founder-led delivery with outcomes sustained for at least two reporting periods after the initial intervention.
• Sector credibility from banking, insurance, payments, wealth or regulated fintech; experience that is purely functional and lacks Managing Partner – Value Creation-level payments portfolio consequences will not meet the bar.
• Willingness to meet the Hyderabad location expectation, complete conflicts and background diligence, and protect the confidentiality of mandate 014.

Compensation and terms

The anticipated Managing Partner – Value Creation package is ₹5.0–7.5 crore fixed + performance variable and LTI, calibrated to the final payments portfolio scope and the candidate’s current mix. Any long-term participation for mandate 014 follows standard vesting and performance conditions. The Managing Partner – Value Creation appointment in Hyderabad, centred on the payments portfolio, offers regular exposure to the chair, executive committee and principal capital sponsors. A structured client and conflict transition of up to 6 months can be accommodated for mandate 014.

Confidentiality

The client name, precise footprint and transaction history are outside this brief for mandate 014. They will be shared with qualified candidates under a mutual undertaking, and the composite facts here must not be reverse-engineered or circulated for mandate 014.