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Nataliia Romanenko
Business Development / Payment Partnerships | Open Banking, High-Risk
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Romania (EU) | Remote Telegram: @NatalieRomanenko
SUMMARY SKILLS
Business development professional with 6 years in sales, now building payment PSP and reseller partnerships
partnerships in Open Banking with PSPs, payment orchestrators, resellers and
high-risk merchants across the EU and UK. I find and qualify partners, negotiate Referral / markup models Negotiation
referral and markup terms and take deals through NDA, KYB / compliance and
contract to technical integration. I know the commercial side from the provider's
position: pricing, limits, settlement and risk requirements. Comfortable with hard- Merchant onboarding KYB / compliance
to-board verticals (iGaming, crypto, high-risk e-commerce). Background in
psychology and 4 years in banking. Open Banking (A2A, SEPA Instant, UK Faster
Payments)
EXPERIENCE
High-risk and iGaming payments
Sales Manager
Fintech company (Open Banking payments) Outbound / cold outreach (LinkedIn, email)
02/2026 - Present Remote
Hit 110-150% of the monthly outreach and positive-reply targets for 8 months in Lead generation and qualification
a row.
About 24% of first messages turn into a neutral or positive reply (300+ new Discovery calls Objection handling
prospects a month).
Book and run my own discovery calls in English with PSPs, merchants and Pipeline management in CRM
resellers.
Prospect and qualify companies across Europe and the UK: PSPs, payment LinkedIn Sales Navigator CPA / RevShare
orchestrators, high-risk merchants (iGaming, crypto, other high-risk verticals);
build ICPs and target lists. Training and coaching
Take deals from first contact through NDA, KYB / compliance onboarding,
contract and integration; explain pricing, limits and risk requirements in plain
language. LANGUAGES
Sourced and signed a referral agent who brought merchants now processing
live traffic. English
Negotiate referral and markup partnerships with payment partners in the EU Professional working proficiency
and UK.
Write and A/B test first-touch and follow-up sequences; test new segments and Ukrainian
lead sources; keep the full pipeline in CRM. Native

Sales Manager, Affiliate Partnerships Russian
Native
iGaming
01/2024 - 01/2025 Remote French
Outbound prospecting: researched and worked 225 new prospects a month, Intermediate (B1)
signed 10-18 new partners a month.
8.4% average conversion from cold lead to signed partner. KEY ACHIEVEMENTS
Qualified partners before launch (reach, conversion, FTD history, audience
quality); 90% of signed partners met their KPIs. Payment partnerships
Negotiated CPA and RevShare deals, most closed on CPA or CPA + RevShare Took PSPs and payment partners in the EU and
terms. UK from first contact to NDA, KYB and contract;
Quality Manager, Contact Center signed a referral agent whose merchants now
process live traffic.
Alfa-Bank
01/2018 - 01/2022 Kyiv, Ukraine Outreach results
Designed and delivered 11 sales and customer-communication trainings for call- Hit 110-150% of monthly outreach and positive-
center agents, which increased cross-sales of banking products. reply targets for 8 months in a row; about 24%
Cut average call time by 24% and raised sales efficiency of banking products by of first messages turn into a reply (300+ new
11%. prospects a month).
Reduced repeat customer complaints by 17%.
Coached agents through call reviews and quality scoring. Partner acquisition
Signed 10-18 new affiliate partners a month at
Contact Center Agent 8.4% conversion from cold lead; 90% of signed
Alfa-Bank partners met their KPIs.
06/2017 - 12/2017 Kyiv, Ukraine
Met and exceeded cross-sell targets for banking products; top-3 agent on
service quality.
2022-2023 and 2025: relocation abroad.
EDUCATION
Practical Psychology
Interregional Academy of Personnel Management (MAUP)
2013 - 2015 Kyiv, Ukraine

Music Pedagogy
Tchaikovsky National Music Academy of Ukraine
2005 - 2010 Kyiv, Ukraine