ABOUT GOLDMAN SACHS
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ABOUT OUR ROLES
Corporate Treasury Operations provides payment processing, liquidity, cash management and bank relationship management services for our institutional, retail, and corporate clients as well as firmwide flows.
Corporate Treasury Operations (CTO) is a pillar within the Corporate Treasury division. CTO leads the development of new payments-centric businesses, build scale and improve agility to adapt to a rapidly changing payment landscape while managing and optimizing the firm’s liquidity. This team acts as a first line of defense for control and governance to protect the firm’s financial assets. By incorporating differentiated client service, CTO aims to be best in class.
Corporate Treasury Operations has regional presence in Salt Lake City, Dallas, New York, London, Warsaw, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Tokyo, Singapore, Frankfurt, and many other offices.
OUR TEAM
Payment Clearing Operations (PCO) is a sub-team within Corporate Treasury Operations. PCO enables and advances payment capabilities on domestic or private rails (schemes) supporting Firm affiliate flow via Transaction Bank, Transaction Banking Clients, and the Retail businesses. Our people have payment industry experience and focus on operational scale and excellence in client service. Our objective is efficient management of settlement rates with timely remediation of exceptions governed by a comprehensive risk and control framework. With focus on innovation and resiliency we have enabled the support of dynamic businesses while delivering solutions to complex flows across multiple platforms and vendors. The team supports various payment rails including Fedwire, ACH, Checks, RTP, CHAPS, SEPA, BACS, FPS, SWIFT and Visa across multiple currencies and time zones.
You are looking to join a fast-paced, dynamic team of payment-oriented professionals, that has broad connectivity across the firm. You will collaborate with cross-divisional teams to improve the firm’s payment capabilities and manage the day-to-day payment settlements of the firm’s corporate and retail businesses.
JOB RESPONSBILITIES
- Monitor and reconcile payment flows daily.
- Investigate and action payment exceptions.
- Execute day-to-day transactions in various payment systems or journals.
- Perform daily bank nostro reconciliation; investigate and resolve discrepancies.
- Partner with third party processor, vendors, internal technology teams to resolve issues.
- Identify and mitigate payment clearing & settlement risk.
- Understand the key risks and controls of our payment flows; propose/execute solutions
- Promptly escalate issues and/or post to Associates, Vice Presidents, and/or senior managers, as needed.
- Provide training to new joiners in the team.
- Perform user acceptance testing; develop requirements to enhance payment capabilities
- Seek opportunities to improve operational process for scale, efficiency and better risk management. Propose solutions and lead the initiatives along with senior supervisors in the team.
- Participate in cross functional projects.
- Stay familiar with the evolving payments landscape, rules & regulations, and network rules.
- Participate in internal and external audits processes, as well as quality assurance testing.
- Partner with teams in Product, Engineering and Risk in the design and implementation of new rails and enablers for existing ones.
- Learn and be proficient in business intelligence and low-code automation. Contribute to execution of global projects.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor’s degree.
- Systems savvy and proficiency in Microsoft Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.
- Willingness to learn and develop technical expertise on various global payment rails.
- Exemplify GS culture of partnership, client service, integrity, and excellence.
- High energy & motivated, especially in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.
- Effective verbal/written communication in English; navigate diverse and broad stakeholders.
- Strong analytic and organizational skills.
- Clear thinker, problem solver and the ability to work in cross-functional projects and identify process improvements.
- Ability to create and deliver business presentations and communicate effectively.
- Intellectually curious and good listening skills.
- Critical attention to detail.
- Strong team player.
- Receptive to being challenged and think outside the box.
- Comfortable with ambiguity.
- Ability to simultaneously handle multiple demands and priorities.
- Ability to multi-task and perform with a high degree of accuracy and a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
- Interest in programming language, low-code automation and data science & management
DESIRED CHARACTERISTICS
- Knowledge of various payment systems or rails e.g. ACH, checks, Fedwire, RTP, SEPA, CHAPS, BACS, etc.
- Knowledge of payment network operating rules & regulations e.g. FRB, Nacha, ECCHO, CHIPS.
- Knowledge of payment formats e.g. ACH, ISO 20022, SWIFT.
- Exposure to FRB, Nacha, TCH, SWIFT, third-party banks.
- Payment certification: AAP, APRP, NCP, FPP
- Candidate must be proactive, enthusiastic and team oriented.
- Ability to remain composed under pressure.
- Ability to prioritize and make decisions in a fast-paced environment.
- Strong client service orientation.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Adapt to changes and new challenges.
- Flexibility in working hours as needed by business.
ABOUT GOLDMAN SACHS
At Goldman Sachs, we commit our people, capital and ideas to help our clients, shareholders and the communities we serve to grow. Founded in 1869, we are a leading global investment banking, securities and investment management firm. Headquartered in New York, we maintain offices around the world.
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