Assistant Manager / Manager – State Government Affairs

Job description

**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 . 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. **What You Will Do:** 1. **State Government & Regulatory Engagement:** Engage proactively with State Government departments, State Police, Home departments, and local regulatory authorities across multiple states to represent Cashfree's operational and compliance interests — with primary focus on Karnataka, with working knowledge of neighbouring states. 2. **Field Engagement & On-Ground Presence:** Undertake regular field visits (approximately 50% of working time) court premises, banking institutions, and government departments, building in-person relationships and resolving operational matters that require direct physical engagement and follow-through. 3. **Policy Notes & Internal Briefings:** Prepare clear, well-structured internal notes, situation reports, escalation memos, and briefing documents on state-level regulatory developments, and emerging compliance risks, enabling leadership to make informed decisions on ground-level matters. 4. **Fintech & Payments Regulatory Understanding:** Demonstrate working knowledge of India's payments regulatory framework, including RBI's PA/PG guidelines, PMLA obligations, cyber fraud regulatory directions (MHA/I4C), 5. **Relationship Building with Cyber Crime & Fraud Ecosystem:** Develop and maintain relationships with key officials in State Cyber Crime departments, CERT-In, I4C, and banking fraud control units, positioning Cashfree as a cooperative, transparent, and proactive industry partner in India's fight against digital payment fraud. 6. **Prior Experience Requirement:** 3–7 years of experience in government liaison, regulatory affairs, legal operations, or compliance roles, with demonstrated prior experience of working with Cyber Crime cells, or banking compliance functions. Prior experience at a fintech, bank, NBFC