Senior Payments Officer - London, United Kingdom - GC Partners

GC Partners

Verified Company

London, United Kingdom

3 days ago

Posted by:

Tom O´Connor

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Description

Company Information/Background

Are you ready to grow your career in a rapidly progressing company with service at the heart of everything we do? Then you've come to the right place.

We are GC Partners and we are a specialist financial exchange company.

We help Private and Corporate clients move their money at the best rate, using our 20 years of experience, our bespoke technology and dedication to customer service.

We have 6 offices around the globe including Hong Kong and Dubai, with further expansion in the future.

Most importantly, we are an employee ownership trust, meaning our employees act as owners and partners in the business and all work towards a common goal: with clients at the heart of our business, we deliver efficient, yet simple end-to-end payment solutions through best-in-class service with market leading technology

We have a fantastic opportunity for an experienced Senior Payments Officer to join our busy payments team.

If you have a collaborative and adaptable work ethic, a drive for success and are looking for your next opportunity then we would like to hear from you.

Job Purpose
Operating within a designated payments team consisting of 6 people processing high volume transactions, FX settlements, reconciliations and cash allocations for our international payments business

Person Specification
Take an active role within the team in allocating incoming and outgoing payments, domestic and international

Duties and Responsibilities

Ensure payments are made accurately and on time ensuring SLA's are met
Assist the Head of Backoffice (Payments) in developing and driving implementation of leading best practice payments operations, strategies and processes
Work with junior team members to ensure performance, accuracy and build knowledge
Supporting and contributing to identifying and implementing operational efficiencies
Support new projects related to the overall improvement of payments operations and reconciliations
Act as a key internal point of contact for all payment related queries
Ensure all processes adhere to legal/regulatory requirements, internal policies and guidelines
Investigate outstanding payments within SWIFT, BACS, CHAPS and liaising with banks and external counterparties to resolve transaction queries
Escalate payment issues where necessary to point of resolution
Collaborate with Treasury to support the daily liquidity management process
Ensure all bank accounts, transactions and systems are reconciled daily
Provide a solutionfocused approach and the ability to make objective/evidence based decisions and influence recommendations and decisions using experience, knowledge insights
Support the identification and management of service affecting incidents
Take an energetic and focused approach to delivering exceptional service to the business
Report suspicious activity to the Head of Compliance and MLRO

Skills Required:

Knowledge and experience of payment platforms, SWIFT, reconciliations, investigations and query management within a high volume, high value environment
Knowledge of SWIFT in a crossborder payments context
Straight Through Payment Processing and best in class systems
Knowledge of handling payment exceptions and manual payments
Knowledge of regulatory framework and AML procedures
Personal resilience and ability to perform effectively in a highpressure environment with a positive "can do" attitude and a positive attitude to change
Advanced level of excel
Possess excellent analytical skills, with ability to think independently and draw conclusions
Learning mindset and willingness to develop
Ability to work well under pressure, maintaining high accuracy, in a fast paced environment
3+ yrs proven experience in a payments role for a financial services business, consumer lending business or retail bank

Benefits of working at GC Partners