Treasury Operations Consultant at Discovery Limited

Job Purpose

Reporting to the Head of Treasury Operations and Technology, the Treasury Consultant will be responsible for the day-to-day activities of Discovery Bank’s Treasury Operations area. They are responsible for providing a full range of Treasury Support Services (Back office, Middle Office, and Systems Testing) to the Bank’s Treasury department.

Areas of responsibility may include but are not limited to

• Provide daily end-to-end Treasury support including trade and payment verification, confirmation, settlements, General Ledger posting and payment reconciliation
• Provide system testing support (UAT) on bug fixes, system enhancements and new treasury products
• Reconcile and validate trade capture and day trading activity in timely and accurate manner.
• Assist in resolving trade discrepancies caused from trade failures, breaks, etc.
• Ensure that Treasury related internal bank accounts are reconciled by clearing all exceptions
• Perform daily financial reconciliation between front office systems, payments systems, risk systems & Finance’s GL to ensure data in all systems matches
• Perform variance analysis between Front Office P&L and Finance GL to ensure variances are analysed & explained

Personal Attributes And Skills

• Written and verbal business communication skills
• Intermediate excel skills an advantage.
• Analytical capability and Problem solver
• Self-starter and independent thinker
• Proven track record of working with bank-critical applications, projects, and operations strategies.
• Proven ability to plan, navigate and implement initiatives across multiple areas/platforms/business & functional units
• Experience in managing vendor relationships

Education And Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree in a relevant field
• Banking / Payments related qualifications (ACI/PASA) an advantage
• Minimum five years’ experience in a Bank Payments or Treasury support environment
• Experience in performing system and trade reconciliations
• Good understanding of the processing of financial markets instruments in the following asset classes; Foreign Exchange (FX), Money Markets and Fixed Income
• Systems experience: Calypso and SAP preferred
• Knowledge of Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication pa(SWIFT) is preferred