Manager - Public Policy & Government Affairs

About us

Cashfree Payments is a leader in payments in India. Founded in 2015, Cashfree Payments processes transactions worth $80B annually for more than 800,000 businesses

.Businesses use Cashfree Payments to collect payments from 100+ payment methods, make payouts, make cross-border payments, improve conversions with a one-click checkout, recover abandoned carts, and predict and reduce returns. With an easy onboarding and integration process, and compatibility with popular merchant platforms like Shopify, Wix, Wordpress, WooCommerce, WhatsApp, Cashfree Payments enables businesses to start transactions within a day. Cashfree Payments directly connects with all payment networks and owns its payment processing technology end-to-end, ensuring higher success rates and reliability. Built for scale, it enables businesses to process an industry-leading 12,000 transactions per second, handling peak demand effortlessly

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Alongside payments, Cashfree Payments offers SecureID, an identity verification stack with a comprehensive suite of APIs and KYC components. SecureID enables fintechs and startups to streamline compliant onboarding and KYC flows by minimising user inputs, thus reducing drop-offs, intelligently verifying identity documents, and detecting fraud and anomalies with high accuracy.

Cashfree Payments is authorised by the Reserve Bank of India to operate as a payment aggregator for both domestic and cross-border payments, and was one of the first entities to be authorised. It is also authorised to issue Prepaid Instrumen

ts.Cashfree Payments is backed by Silicon Valley investor Y Combinator, Apis Partners, Krafton, State Bank of India (SBI), and was incubated by PayPal.

About the Role

Cashfree Payments is looking for a Public Policy & Government Affairs professional to support its engagement with Central and State Governments, regulators and other key public-sector stakeholders.

The role will involve a combination of government engagement, regulatory tracking, policy analysis, internal advisory and on-ground execution. The ideal candidate should have a strong understanding of India's fintech and digital payments ecosystem (preferably PA ecosystem), be comfortable engaging with government and regulatory stakeholders, and be able to translate policy developments into clear business implications and actionable recommendations.

Key Responsibilities

• Government & Regulatory Engagement: Engage proactively with Central and State Government departments, regulatory bodies and relevant authorities on policy and regulatory matters affecting Cashfree, including in-person meetings, consultations and government-led forums.
• Policy & Regulatory Resolution: Independently drive policy and regulatory matters requiring government engagement, working closely with internal stakeholders to develop appropriate responses and taking issues from identification through stakeholder engagement, follow-up and resolution.

• Policy Advocacy & Industry Engagement: Support Cashfrees participation in industry consultations, working groups, policy roundtables and government-led initiatives, while contributing to policy positions, representations and identifying opportunities aligned with Cashfrees strategic priorities.

• Develop and demonstrate a strong working understanding of India's payments and fintech regulatory framework, particularly RBI's Payment Aggregator / Payment Gateway framework; Payment systems and digital payment regulations; Digital payment fraud and cyber-fraud regulatory framework; Cross-border payments and related regulatory requirements

• Stakeholder Management & Follow-through: Represent Cashfree's policy interests in a professional and solution-oriented manner, while driving sustained stakeholder engagement and follow-up on key policy and regulatory matters through to resolution.