About the Role
Deloitte Operations is seeking a Payment Control Analyst to operate within the Payment Control Gateway (PCG). The role involves reviewing, validating, and controlling payments before release, ensuring accuracy and preventing erroneous payments through evidence-based verification and structured decision-making. All activities must comply with regulatory requirements, the Enterprise Wide Risk Management Framework, and internal policies.
Responsibilities
- Review and assess payments flagged by control rules prior to release.
- Validate payments against supporting evidence including trades, confirmations, and SSI.
- Make release, hold, or escalate decisions in line with defined procedures and limits of authority.
- Actively stop and escalate payments where risk or ambiguity is identified.
- Perform detailed root cause analysis on exceptions and near misses.
- Identify drivers of false positives and support ongoing refinement of control rules.
- Maintain an accurate audit trail and documentation of all decisions.
- Produce MI on volumes, outcomes, and key exception drivers.
- Collaborate with Operations, Technology, and Front Office stakeholders to resolve complex scenarios.
Requirements
- Experience in Global Markets Operations, payment processing, or post-trade activities.
- Strong understanding of payment flows, settlement processes, and trade lifecycle.
- Ability to analyze and validate financial transactions using multiple data sources.
- Experience handling exceptions and working within controlled operational frameworks.
- Strong attention to detail and ability to make risk-based decisions under time pressure.
- Experience in payment controls, transaction monitoring, or risk/control environments.
- Knowledge of FX, Derivatives, Collateral, or Financing products.
- Familiarity with SSI validation, confirmations, and settlement data.
- Experience working with rule-based or AI/ML driven control environments.
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
Skills
- Payment processing
- Post-trade activities
- Payment flows
- Settlement processes
- Trade lifecycle
- Financial transaction analysis
- Exception handling
- Risk-based decision making
- Payment controls
- Transaction monitoring
- Risk/control environments
- FX products
- Derivatives products
- Collateral products
- Financing products
- SSI validation
- Confirmations
- Settlement data
- Rule-based control environments
- AI/ML driven control environments
- Stakeholder management
- Communication skills
Location
- London
- Glasgow
- Northampton
Work Type
- Office based
- Remote
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Analyst
About the Company
- Deloitte Operations
