Payments Systems Manager NYC

Payments Systems Manager

 
Job ID: Job-1728       
Job Title:      Payments Systems Manager       
location:       New York, NY   
Jobtype:        Permanent      
Rate:   $115K - $125K +bonus   
Primary Skills:        
Description:    6 + years of experience working with Money Transfer applications or Money Transfer Operations. 
- This role requires extensive knowledge of Money Transfer Operations including knowledge of payments from FED, CHIPS, SWIFT, Foreign Currency payments, European payments such as CHAPS, SEPA, German DTA payments, France Payments and Belgium Payments. 
- Experience on implementing migration/ conversions of payment systems. 
- Other requirements include knowledge of Remittance Commission/ Fee processing, Foreign exchange and accounting entries. 
- Understanding of Nostro/ Vostro treasury settlement process, SWIFT outputs including Cover processing and related accounting entries for Future and current value date transactions is a must. 
Knowledge of sanctioned list screening for payments application 

Excellent verbal, written and communication skills. Proficient using MS Office, Excel, Word, Power Point and Visio. 
Ability to work in a team environment 
Possess good communication and presentation skills 
Adaptability to change to embrace the continuous changes in IT 
Possess ability to work within strict deadlines 
Hard working and innovative 
Possess the ability to inspire and motivate others 


The job: 
Responsible for managing and supporting the money transfer application infrastructure. These applications are carrying out payment instructions received via SWIFT, CHIPS, FEDWIRE, CHAPS, DTA, SEPA, ACH, CMS and internal Bank’s application sources. In addition, this role requires support of Compliance critical applications to support payment sanctioned list screening such as OFAC, MOFA, BOE, European and interfaces to/from other back office applications. 

Support the Back Office Business Operations to ensure minimal to no interruption of the Money Transfer applications on daily basis supporting the Bank’s daily settlement with the payment networks. Manage projects related to Money Transfer applications and projects as required by the Business Users or Compliance group. Provide support of the money transfer infrastructure (24X5) including support of the Bank's Disaster/ Recovery program. 

Responsibilities include: 
Perform project Management duties including project coordination; training, end-to-end testing and communicate project status with all stake holders and Senior Management to escalate issues. Perform updates to project plan, maintaining risk and issues list. 
Assist with the development of Service Level Agreements (SLA) and assist with development of Security policy and procedures. 
Develop workflows for back office operations 
Support other Business Applications team members 
Liaison with Applications vendors for quotations on requested developments. 
Create, update and support Change Requests and projects with detailed documentation and issue escalation to Sr. Management. 
Document business requirements, write technical requirements, define interface requirements, workflows and presentations 
Conduct end-to-end testing and support business with test environment management. 
Support when Audits are conducted against any application part of the money transfer infrastructure. 
Basic understanding of specific compliance areas is required to perform this function (i.e OFAC) 
On an on-going basis suggest process/ system enhancements to improve the group’s efficiency and participate in team meetings. 
Ability to work under pressure, manage production emergencies, crisis management and coordinate efforts to address issue. 

Email resume in Word to TheBigGameHunter@cisny.com. Please include the job code for the position with your resume. 

NO RELOCATION. ONLY THOSE AUTHORIZED TO WORK IN THE US. VISA TRANSFERS ARE NOT AVAILABLE AT THIS TIME. NO 3RD PARTIES. 

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