Banking Specialist - Payments (12-months fixed-term contract)

Banking Operations is a strategic Avaloq service line providing Banking Operations outsourcing services to banks. We are organized as a global Business Area, running state-of-the art Backoffice services with industry leading automation, quality, and risk standards. We are experts in providing a true value add to our clients and thus, always look to add creative and client-oriented personalities with drive and passion to our team. 

We are looking for a Back Office Banking Specialist in Payments team, within the BPaaS division. The candidate will be selected for our team in Bioggio (Ticino) with 100% working time. The mission of the team is to deliver payments services to clients and to their end-clients, through high automation and high quality.

Your key tasks 

• Execute the daily activity on payments transactions (order entry, validation and collateral activities) regarding domestic and international commercial payments in line with the standard market rules (sic/swift/sepa format, cut-off times, etc)
• Manage the investigation activity towards correspondent banks / ordering banks / beneficiary banks, in strict cooperation with Clients
• Analyze the pending cash open items assigned to Payments Team and take all the necessary steps to close the open positions with correspondent banks
• Cooperate / communicate with clients and counterparties efficiently
• Be involved proactively in the continuous improvement of processes and automation in order to guarantee the best service and client experience