Are you looking to join a dynamic and innovative team as an Payments and Screening Systems Technical Specialist? We are currently seeking a highly skilled and experienced professional to fill this crucial role in our Core Banking and Payment Systems department. 

Your role:

The Payments and Screening Systems specialist plays a crucial role in supporting the company’s payment and screening systems (Transaction and Customer) offerings, ensuring seamless execution of end-to-end payment processes and timely compliance with regulatory requirements. This position requires a deep understanding of the payments value chain, related information architectures, and ICT solutions. The role involves high complexity due to the intersection of technology, compliance, and business development. The Payments Specialist must navigate intricate regulatory environments, evolving payment technologies, and customer-centric innovation while collaborating across departments and external stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop and optimize end-to-end payment processes including Instant Payments, SEPA Payments, TARGET2, SWIFT, ISO20022.
• Ensure operational excellence in payment processing, including adherence to cut-off times, error resolution, and reconciliation.
• Oversee and enhance the use of cloud-based services such as SWIFT Service Bureaus.
• Contribute to the development and enhancement of payment products and services tailored to customer needs.
• Collaborate with product teams to design innovative payment solutions and support go-to-market strategies.
• Design and implement payment-related information architectures, ensuring alignment with core banking systems.
• Support the integration of ICT solutions for payment processing, cash, and liquidity management.
• Evaluate and recommend cloud-based technologies to enhance payment processes.
• Act as an expert business consultant, advising internal teams on core banking, payments, and cash and liquidity management.
• Provide insights on business processes and information system architectures, ensuring seamless data flow and interoperability.
• Ensure payment processes comply with European and international regulations.
• Mitigate operational risks by maintaining robust controls and audit trails.
• Collaborate with internal teams, including IT, Finance, and Legal, to align payment strategies.
• Engage with external partners, such as banks, payment service providers, and regulatory bodies.
• Project Management skills

Who are we looking for?

A colleague open-minded, very curious by nature and passionate about your job. You are not afraid to handle various tasks at the same time and meet tight deadlines. You are thinking proactively and always a step ahead, finding solutions with both internal and external stakeholders. You are a cooperating person who listens and invests in the work & persons to achieve common goals. You must naturally think out of the box and navigate in a fast changing and complex environment by questioning the how & the why.

Skills/Qualifications:

• In-depth knowledge of Instant Payments, SEPA, TARGET2, SWIFT and ISO20022 and payments related regulations such as PSD2.
• Strong understanding of the SWIFT network, including cloud-based solutions like SWIFT Service Bureau.
• Expertise in core banking systems and their integration with payment and screening processes.
• Familiarity with MS Azure and Integration Services
• Ability to understand and design complex payment flows with integration to all internal and external systems
• Expertise in the implementation of Transaction and Customer Screening systems.
• Experience with API technologies

Education:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Finance, Business, Information Technology, or a related field.
  
• 5+ years of experience in payments, banking, or financial technology preferably in financial sector or banks more specifically
• Relevant certifications are a plus

What we offer.

• Becoming part of a dynamic team in an international working environment.
• 30 vacation days.
• 13th Month.
• 8% holiday payment
• Laptop and Mobile phone.
• Annual extra appreciation payment.
• Pension Plan - Defined contribution scheme
• Collective Health Insurance – discount on additional health insurance.
• Educational budget and access to Coursera trainings

Our organization:

Work at Garanti BBVA International
Garanti BBVA International (“GBI”) is a mid-sized European bank established in Amsterdam, the Netherlands since 1990 and serves to corporate and institutional and retail clientele. GBI is a wholly owned subsidiary of Turkiye Garanti Bankasi A.S. (Garanti) and has presence in Germany, Switzerland and Turkey. Our ultimate parent is BBVA. Aa dynamic “global boutique” bank, Garanti BBVA International offers fast, accurate, innovative, tailor-made and country-specific financial solutions in selected business lines though highly skilled and diverse talent management. We embrace creativity, are centered towards teamwork and oriented to create multicultural environment as we believe this to be a crucial element. Our vision is future-oriented and as a one big team GBI strives for corporate excellence and goal achievement. By joining our organization, you will find yourself constantly challenged and must be prone to apply out-of-the box thinking.

Life at Garanti BBVA International

GBI is a place for people who dream big and make their dream their goal. We look for people who will challenge the status quo in order to grow. We stand as one team, one family and together we are empowered to create our unique path, be agile, be curious and innovative. Strong partnerships ensure our success. Strong teams hold our foundation. We believe that diversity drives innovation and fosters personal development. We aim to create a working environment where employees are able to learn through support and coaching while contributing visibly to the success of bank.

Our Core Values

GBI is part of BBVA, an integrated and innovative financial institution that looks to the future, created with the mission of financing people’s dreams. That spirit continues to inspire us today and encourages us to transform people’s lives by helping them make the best decisions to fulfil their dreams. This mission is underpinned by our Purpose: “To bring the age of opportunity to everyone”. We live these values, which make us strong and allow us to achieve our purpose so we can keep creating opportunities.

Customer Comes First
We see our work from the customer's perspective, as we incorporate their point of view in every decision we make and always put their interests first. We meet our customer's needs in an agile way, overcoming any difficulties that arise.

Think Big
We want to amaze our customers with the best solutions to generate unique experiences. To achieve this, we set ambitious and inspirational challenges for ourselves, while questioning everything we do and posing new ways of doing things.

One Team
We are committed both to our individual role and the company's objectives as our own. We work as one team, trust our colleagues and break silos between units and hierarchical barriers.

Application:

If you are ready to join our team and contribute to the success of company, we encourage you to apply by submitting your resume and a cover letter. You have two options to apply:

 Click on the link below to access our online application portal and submit your application.

We appreciate your interest in our organization and look forward to reviewing your application. Should you have any questions or require further information, please don't hesitate to reach out.

Please note that we do not appreciate any acquisition efforts for this vacancy by recruitment agencies.