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Your New Job Title: Banking Operations Officer, Mandarin speaking

The Skills You'll Need: Mandarin, SWIFT, Payments, Settlements, Transactions, Treasury

Your New Salary: Competitive

Office based.

Permanent

Start - ASAP

Working hours - 9-5 with flexibility when necessary.

To be successful in this role our client has said it is essential that candidates:

• are fluent in both written and spoken Mandarin Chinese
• have experience in banking with SWIFT, Payments/Settlement/Trade Finance/Treasury Operations, etc.

If that means this job isn’t a match for you please view our other vacancies for one that may be a better fit.

What You'll be Doing:

• Take ownership of processing daily trades and completing each transaction accurately and efficiently
• Recognise and manage operational risks involved with each type of transaction. Resolve discrepancies and mismatches in regard to transaction materials and confirm with the Bank’s counterparties as soon as possible; report and escalate in a timely manner as and when required;
• CDD/KYC collating the CDD documents for Financial Institutions (e.g. Nostro, Vostro Bank) and screening new customers using systems;
• Treasury products processing and settlement - mainly (inter-bank) loan/deposit, Foreign Exchange / FX Swap, Bond settlement, Repo / Reverse Repo, Interest & Cross-currency swaps. Follow through mismatched trading information and take ownership of the investigation process to ensure issues or concerns have been dealt with promptly;
• Correspondent banking/GBP clearing - process payments in an accurate and timely manner; take the initiative in conducting investigations as and when required.
• Provide backup for tasks such as loan administration for syndicated and bilateral loans, trade finance transaction, etc;
• General Account Management - populate the core banking system with new account and/or customer data; process incoming third-party payments and populate the core banking system with remittance data to facilitate the creation of SWIFT payment messages.
• Additional ad hoc tasks as required by the manager.

The Skills You'll Need to Succeed:

• Experience in banking operations, e.g. Payments, Settlement, Trade Finance and Treasury Operations.
• SWIFT handling experience (MT103 / 202) is essential - additional experience preferred, e.g. MT300/ 320/ 541/ 543/700/707/799/ etc.
• Ideally understand and be familiar with UCP600, URDG, ISBP etc.
• Ideally Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent in Economics/Finance/Accounting.

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We would be grateful if you could send your CV as a Word document. If your application is successful, you will be contacted within 7 days. We regret that due to the high volume of applications we receive we cannot provide feedback on individual CVs. Please note that we can only consider candidates who are eligible to work in the UK and are able to provide relevant supporting documentation.

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