Payment and Level 1 Sanctions Specialist

3 weeks ago


Montréal, Canada Tekwissenllc Full time

**Overview**:
TekWissen Group is a workforce management provider throughout the USA and many other countries in the world. Our client is a company who is a provider of banking and financial services. The company operates through two divisions, Retail Banking and Services, and Corporate and Institutional Banking

**Results and Impact**
- Impacts division and influences peers and team
- Demonstrates good judgement when making decisions of high complexity and impact
- Relies on limited guidance for most complex decision making
- Is responsible for driving outcomes which have meaningful effect on team or department

**Leadership and Collaboration**
- Creates trust with department leaders
- Acts in leadership capacity for large projects, processes, or programs for a team

**Client, Customer and Stakeholder Focus**
- Able to build relationships with a mix of intermediate and senior colleagues or clients
- Interacts regularly with management and department leaders
- Demonstrates the ability to persuade and influence stakeholders at the team level

**Compliance Culture and Conduct**
- Takes full responsibility for personal actions and demonstrates courage in facing problems and conflicts
- Perceived as a person of high moral character; upholds corporate values and displays high ethical standards”

**Responsibilities**:

- Provide Payment Services and Level 1 Sanctions coverage between 5 AM - 3 PM. (mid-shift)
- Transaction processing in one or more of the company’s internal operations to support domestic and international customers for payment and check processing service functions.
- Perform first level review of obvious false positive (payments/Swift and non-SWIFT messages) that are stopped in our various filtering systems.
- Escalate questionable and exact matches to the Level 2 (Sanctions Exceptions and Enforcement) team (SEE) for review
- Ensure instructions are executable, properly authorized or signed, or authenticated where applicable.
- Correction of transactions received via automated feeds with improper formatting and or items previously disapproved by verifiers.
- Awareness of daily work levels and achieves set standards and goals.
- Identify and take prompt action on priority items.
- Ensure adherence to all external regulatory and internal policy guidelines as dictated by the position
- Perform other support operations functions as required.
- Provide rotational coverage on selected holidays or weekends and work overtime on high volume days
- Foreign exchange processing duties, which include, buying and selling foreign currency, entering, verifying wire transfer.
- Process opening of ACH, CP, LYNX and Funds Control. Provide cross-coverage between Payments & L1 functions.
- Monitors and records all intra-day activity as received from the Traders/TFLM, prepare position and provide any anomalies or fails reporting to their attention.
- Must have the ability to identify and resolve intra-day position for funds control and reconciliation through various reports.
- Process/Validate Inclearing/Outclearing checks, Incoming and Outgoing Collection letters.
- Provide NRM database feedback.

**Minimum Required Qualifications**
- Excellent communication skills
- Strong interpersonal skills and good judgment
- Concern for Quality, Accuracy and attention to detail.
- Self-motivated, ability to multi-task and work well under pressure.
- Customer Service Orientation
- Team oriented.

**Preferred Qualifications**:

- 1/3 years’ experience in the field of banking operations
- Industry Knowledge: Product knowledge of Wire Transfer and Check processing business. This should be complemented with an understanding of Accounting and Regulatory background.
- Degree from accredited college/university
- Strong understanding of Funds Transfer operations as well as the rules and regulations, which govern it, (this will include both CHIPS, Fedwire, LYNX and ACH.)
- Strong preference for previous banking experience with foreign exchange
- Knowledge of local clearing systems, SWIFT and the various formatting issues associated with them.

**TekWissen® Group is an equal opportunity/affirmative action Employer (M/F/d/v) supporting workforce diversity.**

**Salary**: $30.00-$32.00 per hour



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