Join a team shaping the future of digital payments and drive your professional growth. Become a pivotal leader at the forefront of revolutionizing payment operations, where your expertise will help drive efficiency across our financial systems.
As a Payment Lifecycle Associate II within Payments Operations, you will play a critical role in ensuring the firm's largest and most time-sensitive payment positions are accurately managed, controlled, and communicated. This is a unique opportunity to operate at the intersection of Treasury, Payments, and Risk, where your insights directly influence decision-making and financial outcomes across the organization. Within the Cash Asset Management Utility, a firmwide function spanning 160+ professionals across seven global locations, you will contribute to delivering resilient, scalable cash management solutions that enable the firm to safely manage its balance sheet.
Job responsibilities
- Own and oversee large-value currency positions, ensuring precision, timeliness, and data integrity
- Identify and investigate discrepancies proactively manage risk through escalation and resolution
- Operate with a strong control mindset ensure issues are owned and resolved end-to-end
- Support supervisory processes aligned with regulatory expectations (e.g., Series 99)
- Communicate clearly and credibly with stakeholders at all levels
- Collaborate with service leads, operations, and change teams to improve outcomes and enhance service delivery
- Lead/contribute to initiatives that reduce manual exceptions, enhance data quality, and increase operational resilience
- Identify opportunities to simplify workflows and strengthen the end-to-end process
- Contribute to team coverage in a dynamic, global operating model
- Support a collaborative and inclusive culture by sharing best practices and ideas
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Strong analytical mindset attention to detail ability to perform under pressure
- Proven ability to manage multiple priorities in a time-critical environment
- Confidence to challenge, escalate, and influence decision-making
- Solid understanding of risk and controls in an operational setting
- Strong communication skills ability to engage and influence stakeholders
- Strong Excel skills, including ability to build/manage UT Macros
- Ownership-driven mindset (accountability and follow-through to resolution)
- Continuous-improvement mindset (actively seeks efficiency/simplification)
- Collaborative mindset (builds partnerships across teams and functions)
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Experience in payments, cash management, or financial operations
