Our client is a reputable international Corporate Investment Banking. To cope with the rapid business expansion, they are now inviting high caliber candidates to join the team

Officer/Assistant Manager, Remittance payment Operation - Corporate Investment Banking $30K-35K 

Position Purpose/Duties

To handle middle office tasks for deposits and remittance, including pre-processing tasks, transaction-related interactions with internal counterparts (e.g. Coverage, Client Services, Business Lines, Compliance), back office as well as external clients, and operational controls, etc. in accordance with operating procedures, group and bank policies/ guidelines and regulatory requirements.

Responsibilities

Direct Responsibilities

• To receive paper instructions, perform call back to clients, ensure correct information and timely scanning of instructions are provided to back office
• To respond timely and accurately to back office throwbacks/ enquiries, make referrals (to relationship managers and/ or Compliance, etc.) if necessary
• To contact clients and/ or relationship managers to clarify/ resolve irregular transactions 
  To handle enquires from internal counterparts, branches and correspondent banks
• To perform intra-day and day-end control to ensure no transactions/ throwbacks are unattended at middle office
• To monitor closely the transaction processing progress at back office, especially the critical/ urgent payments
• To understand the group, bank and regulatory policies/ guidelines and apply proper control to the works/ transactions
• To contact clients, relationship managers and/ or branches to collect information required for alert management investigations, make the reply and follow up the status
• To review daily reports and/ or exceptions and take appropriate actions as required
• To update the operating procedures within the review period and ensure the required processes and controls are documented
• To act as a payment specialist for functional reviews on products/ services that are handled by the team
• To timely report and escalate production incident to eliminate/ reduce the impact to the client and the Bank
• Anti-Money Laundering/ Financial Sanctions (“AML/FS”) related duties - Operations are an integral part of the control framework including for AML/FS topics. In that respect, in performing your role you are expected to ensure adherence to AML/FS-related Group Policies and execution of associated operational controls, and to promptly escalate any resulting hit for analysis and decision

Contributing Responsibilities

• To set up and maintain the special pricing 
• To handle monthly billing activities 
• To participate in BCP drills and UATs 
• To take on any other duties as assigned by the Team Manager/ Department Head 

Qualifications

Technical & Behavioral Competencies

• Diploma /Degree holder
• at least 5-8 yr of Operation exp with remittance, deposits, payment specialist for functional reviews on products experience
• Good PC skills (Microsoft Words, Excel, etc.)
• High accuracy and strong attention to detail  

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