About the Role
Lead and direct service delivery for Payments and Cross-border Remittances operations for JPY, understanding transaction lifecycles through systems like Zengin, BOJnet, and SWIFT. Ensure high-quality, error-free services while complying with regulations, managing operational costs, and mitigating risks. Build relationships with internal/external parties and support system enhancements.
Responsibilities
- Daily operation checking and performance monitoring for Domestic and Cross-border Cross Currency payments.
- Ongoing interaction with major business functions to drive business performance and achieve strategic objectives.
- Provide business leadership, technical subject matter expertise, commercial influence, guidance, and recommendations.
- Structure and implement solutions for end clients across various industrial sectors and geographies.
- Interface with the regulator, ensuring compliance with cross-border remittance regulations.
- Drive design and implementation of new technology for payment mechanisms in Japan.
- Engage in relevant Internal/external audit and inspection.
- Report incidents and crisis, and escalate issues timely.
- Drive Process Excellence and leverage technology to achieve best-in-class status.
- Manage operational cost through process re-engineering, migration, and automation.
- Implement adequate controls to mitigate operational risks.
- Ensure highest levels of customer satisfaction.
- Ensure highest level of engagement with multiple stakeholders.
- Lead and manage the Operations team and performance of business partners.
- Identify and manage operational risk.
- Mitigate compliance and reputational risk to the Bank.
Requirements
- 7-12 years of overall Banking exposure.
- 3-7 years of specialized experience in managing payments.
- Understanding of the life cycle of all transactions through Zengin, BOJnet, SWIFT etc.
- Ability to provide business work-around solutions for system failures.
- Ability to lead onshore and offshore teams.
- Ability to comply with both onshore and offshore regulations.
- Ability to build good relationships with internal/external counterparties.
- Knowledge related to system logics and life cycles of all transaction types for UAT testing.
- Ability to manage staff, develop potential, and raise skillsets.
- Ability to proactively manage operation cost.
- Ability to safeguard the bank from potential loss.
- Ability to manage multiple stakeholders both internal and external (e.g. regulators).
Skills
- People and Stakeholder Management
- Strong Communication
- Decision making ability
- Thinking and Problem solving skills
- Customer Drive
- Ability to prioritise own work
- Ability to maintain good control in a changing environment
- Strong sense of initiative
- Pro-activeness
- Self-driven
- Customer service oriented
- Ability to think creatively and out of the box
- Inter-personal skills
- Business level of English
- Business level of Japanese (listening, speaking and writing)
Experience Level
- 7-12 years of overall Banking exposure
- 3-7 years of specialized experience in managing payments
