Payments Analyst - London, United Kingdom - eFinancialCareers

eFinancialCareers

Verified Company

London, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

The company is a newly created regulatory technology business that brings global financial institutions together to optimise standards in compliance, by providing a trusted platform to exchange and enhance information.

Backed by an industry consortium of financial service market leaders and equipped with decades of industry experience and advanced technologies, it will redefine how compliance can be delivered.

The role

As a member of the Product team, you will contribute to the design of the solution's Alert Generation capability and related business processes.

You will work closely with a range of tier-one global banks to critically examine their current sanctions screeningprocesses, and transaction landscape and understand their individual business requirements.

You will use your own experience and the breadth of insight gained in payments for example (ISO20022 (CBPR+, SEPA, T2 etc.) and Swift (MT) and business analysis to assist the design of the Alert Generation capability, constructively challenging industrynorms along the way.

What you'll do
Key responsibilities in this role will include (but not be limited to):

Work with a range of Financial Institutions to understand their current transaction sanction screening processes
Identify industry best practices and use this knowledge and insight to define the solution's match generation processes
Work with Financial Institutions to understand various global, domestic, and custom payment formats and help develop an industrywide screening standard
Regularly update and evolve the payments screening strategy as payment networks update their schemes and the internal technology evolves.
Liaising with Business Owners and Product Analysts to understand and own delivering the desired outcomes and strategies of the company's industry screening standards
Work with the Business, Financial Institutions, and Scrum Teams to enrich the delivery lifecycle with solid analytics work where it concerns transactions sanctions screening and the pros and cons of different approaches to achieve the desired business outcomes
Work independently, often with large data sets and own and deliver analytical objectives.
Support implementation of testing activities, including the definition of test scripts and signoff of product outcomes
Support the production of business outcomes, creating and reviewing epics and user stories to align with business objectives
Support the development of product specification documents
Lead internal and external workshops

What you'll need

Deep knowledge of payments and the payments industry for example (ISO20022 (CBPR+, SEPA, T2 etc.)
Understanding of Financial Crime and preferably Transaction Sanctions Screening
Indepth understanding of various payment file formats and the structure of different payment types
Experience working in an operational or delivery payments team, preferably within a tier 1 global bank
Ability to elicit, define and prioritise business requirements
Experience working in a fastpaced project delivery environment
Strong presentation, communication and stakeholder management skills
2:1 degree (or equivalent) from a leading university
Fluent in written and spoken business English

Personal competencies

Strong communication skills to enable effective customer and stakeholder management
Strong core operational management skillset diligent, thorough and organized
Be comfortable working in a fastpaced, rapidly changing environment
Strong organizational, facilitation, and communication skills (both written and oral)
Proactive and selfmotivated
Ability to multitask and prioritize
Flexibility able to adopt to rapidly changing situations
Able to balance apparent conflicting priorities and conflict to find simple solutions
Resilient, able to provide positive clear direction in highstress situations, inspiring others
Attention to detail