Consultant, Payment Operations

Northern Trust, a Fortune 500 company, is a globally recognized, award-winning financial institution that has been in continuous operation since 1889. Northern Trust is proud to provide innovative financial services and guidance to the world’s most successful individuals, families, and institutions by remaining true to our enduring principles of service, expertise, and integrity. With more than 130 years of financial experience and over 22,000 partners, we serve the world’s most sophisticated clients using leading technology and exceptional service.

Scope of role: The role is required to work in Payment Operations within the Global Cash Services / Market Operations part of the business. The objectives of the role are to perform payment, investigation and reconciliation operational functions on behalf of the Guernsey part of the business.

Core responsibilities:

• SWIFT payment processing – checking and releasing SWIFT payments in accordance with payment formatting principles.
• Prioritizing multi-currency payment processing in accordance with market deadlines.
• SWIFT investigations – handling some payment investigations work via SWIFT, and general payment enquiries from internal stakeholders.
• Reconciliations – performing reconciliation of external agent statements with internal records to track, monitor, investigate and resolve cash exceptions in multiple currencies.
• Proactively manage self-development and the development of others, and communicate effectively as part of a global team.
• Projects – ability to perform some ad-hoc project work to deliver change within payment operations.

Knowledge/Skills:

• Demonstrates strong experience with SWIFT payments, formatting and investigations, including in relation to the new ISO20022 SWIFT standards.
• Ability to carry out complex transactional activity with significant financial, client and/or internal business impact.
• Ability to work independently on complex payment and reconciliation queries, and serve as a key subject matter expert to more junior employees and internal stakeholders from other business areas.
• Ability to adapt well to change – e.g. new systems, procedures and market requirements.
• Ability to work with excellent attention to detail in a sensitive and pressurized environment.
• Good organizational and communication skills.

Experience:

• Extensive experience with SWIFT payments.
• Experience working as part of a global team to deliver objectives quickly and efficiently.

Working with Us: As a Northern Trust partner, greater achievements await. You will be part of a flexible and collaborative work culture in an organization where financial strength and stability is an asset that emboldens us to explore new ideas. Movement within the organization is encouraged, senior leaders are accessible, and you can take pride in working for a company committed to assisting the communities we serve! Join a workplace with a greater purpose. We’d love to learn more about how your interests and experience could be a fit with one of the world’s most admired and sustainable companies! Build your career with us and apply today.

Reasonable accommodation: Northern Trust is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please email our HR Service Center. We hope you’re excited about the role and the opportunity to work with us. We value an inclusive workplace and understand flexibility means different things to different people. Apply today and talk to us about your flexible working requirements and together we can achieve greater.