Payments & Cash Management — Operations Business Liaison

Yadimen Consulting Limited; Lisboa; On-site; EUR 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Yadimen Consulting Limited, based in Lisbon area, is building a shortlist of senior payments-operations professionals who can sit between the payment engine and the business — ensuring real-time payments stay clean under pressure.

The role focuses on SEPA, SCT Inst, TARGET2 and cross-border rails, with responsibilities spanning investigations, Nostro reconciliation, sanctions checks, and the ISO20022 transition; fluency in German and English is essential.

Qualifications

• Operational liaison between payment processing and the business to keep communications accurate under pressure.
• Experience with payment investigations and exception management across SEPA / SCT Inst, TARGET2 and cross-border rails.
• Nostro reconciliation and end-to-end tracking with modern payment-traceability capability.
• Experience with sanctions/transaction-screening interfaces affecting client experience and controls.
• Real-time exception handling and verification-of-payee on live instant rails and ISO20022 transition.

Responsibilities

• Own the operational point of contact between payment processing and the business.
• Lead payment investigations and exception management across SEPA / SCT Inst, TARGET2 and cross-border rails.
• Manage Nostro reconciliation and end-to-end tracking.
• Oversee sanctions/transaction-screening interfaces.
• Handle real-time exception and verification-of-payee on live rails during ISO20022 transition.

Skills

Fluent German and English

Corporate payments operations

SWIFT & ISO 20022 knowledge

Real-time payment operations

Tools

ISO 20022 MX tooling

Job description

Payments & Cash Management — Operations Business Liaison

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Job Description

Instant payments went live across the euro area. ISO20022 replaced the old messaging. Every corporate bank now needsGerman-speaking people who can keep real-time payments clean under pressure —that's you.

We represent a range of corporate and institutionaltransaction-banking employers building out their payments operations right now,driven by the EU Instant Payments mandate and the market-wide move to ISO20022. We're building a shortlist of senior payment-operations professionalswho can sit between the payment engine and the business — and we place themacross onshore DACH, UK operations hubs, and the nearshore centres (Poland,Portugal) where these banks run their payments operations.

Requirements

What you'd own....

• The operational point ofcontact between payment processing and the business — relationshipmanagers, product, and corporate clients — keeping communication accurateand calm when a high-value payment stalls.
  
• Payment investigationsand exception management across SEPA / SCT Inst, TARGET2 andcross-border rails, driven to resolution.
  
• Nostro reconciliationand end-to-end tracking with modern payment-traceability capability.
  
• The sanctions /transaction-screening interface, so control and client experience movetogether.
  
• Real-time exception and Verification-of-Payee handling on live instant rails, and the operational side of the ISO20022 (MX) transition.
  

What makes you a fit....

• Fluent German andEnglish — used daily across German-speaking clients and colleagues.
  
• Corporate or wholesale paymentoperations grounding in a bank or transaction-banking function.
  
• Practical fluency across SEPA, TARGET2 and SWIFT in both MT and MX (ISO 20022).
  
• A control mindset withgenuine client-facing confidence.
  

Nice to have — Eurozone clearing / instant-paymentinfrastructure exposure; corporate connectivity channels (e.g. EBICS); paymentinvestigations / case-management tooling.

Why talk to us (not just one employer)

• We work with severalbanks and delivery partners in this space — one confidentialconversation, multiple environments, onshore or nearshore.
  
• The demand is datedand real (instant-payments and ISO 20022 deadlines), so moves happenfast.
  

Yadimen is an equal-opportunities recruiter. Applicationswelcome from all backgrounds.