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Isabel Cortes

@isabelcortes

I scale cross-border payments, remittance operations, agent networks, and high-performing teams.

United Kingdom
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What I'm looking for

I'm looking to lead and scale cross-border payments or remittance operations, develop strong teams and agent networks, and deliver compliant growth across the UK, Europe, and emerging markets.

I've led cross-border payment and remittance growth across Inara Transfers, CrossTech, Small World Financial Services, and Ria Financial, spanning the UK, Europe, and international corridors.

At Ria Financial, I managed P&L for the agent channel and led a 40+ person team across sales, field development, agent support, onboarding, revenue management, and IT. I built agent networks, introduced onboarding and sales processes, developed pricing programmes, improved productivity and quality assurance, and ensured operations followed PSD2, AML4, and GDPR requirements.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Inara Money Transfer and Currency Exchange logoIE

Country Manager

Mar 2025 - Apr 2026 (1 year 1 month)

Inara Transfers, a company within the Intermex Group, provides cross-border payment and remittance solutions serving customers across multiple international corridors.

CrossTech logoCR

EMEA Business development

Jan 2021 - Feb 2024 (3 years 1 month)

Worked as EMEA Business development at CrossTech.

MOHR WORLD CONSULTING logoMC

Business development

Sep 2018 - Feb 2019 (5 months)

Advice consulting clients on MT services in Uk and Europe.
Develop B2B MT services between UK based companies and financial institutions in US, Latin-America, Africa and Asia.

Ria Financial logoRF

Sales Director

Sep 2016 - Aug 2018 (1 year 11 months)

• Responsible for P&L of Agent channel
• Develop and manage the network.
• Manage a team of 40+ between Sales, Field development, Agent Support, Agent on Boarding, Revenue Management and IT
• Implement and develop geographical strategy for both countries with YoY double digit growth.
• Responsible to increase agent network year on year.
• Maintaining positive business relationships to ensure ongoi

Ria Financial logoRF

Operations Manager UK

Jan 2010 - Jan 2016 (6 years)

In operations I oversaw four departments: Agent support, revenue management, non-face to face transactions and the on-boarding process team.

Responsibilities

• Monitoring and reporting on agent performance in micro and macro detail, implementing solutions to improve agent profitability and Ria customer service
• Understanding of the money transfer market, currencies, exchange rates, key activit

Ria Financial logoRF

agent support manager

Oct 2006 - Jan 2010 (3 years 3 months)

Responsibilities

• Be the first point of contact to handle agent’s issues, assessed and resolved enquires and complaints from agents and customers.
• Create strategies for client retention and generation of new business
• Ensure the creation of a culture to provide a loyal and trustworthy service to clients to meet client’s expectations.
• Maintain a healthy customer’s relationship to drive reven

Ria Financial logoRF

Account Manager

Mar 2006 - Oct 2006 (7 months)

As an account manager I was responsible for presenting Ria Financial Services to potential agents and managing the entire sales process from identifying prospects, call calling, meeting with business owners.
the main responsibilities were to increase agent network in a monthly basis bringing 7 new accounts to the company

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

Universidad Jorge Tadeo Lozano logoUL

Universidad Jorge Tadeo Lozano

Bachelor of Architecture, Interior Architecture

1993 - 1999

Studied interior architecture at Universidad Jorge Tadeo Lozano from 1993 to 1999.

UL

Universidad Jorge Tadeo Lozano

arquitectura interior

1993 - 1999

UL

Universidad Jorge Tadeo Lozano

1993 - 1999

Tech stack

Software and tools used professionally

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