Payments Officer

Our client, a well known Financial Services Provider is looking to recruit a Payments Supervisor into their growing team. 

Responsibilities:

• Smooth running and processing of the Payments / Treasury back office team together with Head of Dept and other team members
• Assisting Head of Dept to supervise, monitor and coordinate daily team activities to ensure that they are in line with the Banks policies and procedures and with departmental goals;
• Assisting Head of Dept with daily running of payments departments and lead, motivate and develop teams of payment settlement and static data processors;
• Reconcile and supervise transactions processed
• Co-ordination of payment requests and queries originating from clients as well as banks
• Ensuring that payments are processed within cut-off times and ensure high service levels at all times
• Reporting any suspicious transactions to the MLRO;
• Adherence to AML, sanctions and regulations for any transactions processed;
• Monitor payments being processed through different channels e.g. FIMBank Direct, Swift etc.
• Liaise with internal and external stakeholders to handle any queries that arise;
• Authorise transactions in accordance with policies and procedures within the department;
• Identifying areas of optimisation and automation to increase efficiencies within the department either through revised processes and/or system changes;
• Keeping abreast with payments directive changes and payment related regulations and accordingly update policies and procedures and initiate process and system changes as required;
• Participate and oversee team projects involving the testing of new setups on banking software to meet business needs
• Assisting in reconciliation of internal accounts across products as required

Skill-sets and Requirements

• Possess banking experience within an Operations Back Office team
• Possess good knowledge of SWIFT, SEPA, faster and international and domestic payments
• Be experienced in International Payments within Banking, Financial Services, Legal or Import Export Environments
• Have the ability to work in client facing or client liaison environments
• Experience of processing/supervising high volume and high value payment settlements within banking systems

Education & Experience

Have a tertiary degree level of education in Banking and Finance or similar

Job Reference: FM308