Customer Relations Specialist

Trust Bank Singapore; Singapore; On-site; SGD 40,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Trust Bank Singapore is seeking a Customer Relations Specialist to service our customer base and deliver high-quality experiences. You will resolve complaints efficiently, maintain records, and collaborate across teams to prevent recurrence and improve processes.

The role emphasizes regulatory compliance, SLAs, and stakeholder coordination in a fast-paced banking environment. The ideal candidate brings experience in customer complaints handling within financial institutions, strong root cause

Qualifications

• Experience in handling customer complaints at scale in financial services.
• Ability to perform root cause analysis and drive process improvements.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.

Responsibilities

• Manage end-to-end handling of customer complaints, ensuring timely and fair resolution.
• Oversee high-volume complaint management operations with adherence to SLAs and policies.
• Review complex or escalated complaints and determine appropriate resolutions.
• Maintain comprehensive complaint records and investigation notes.
• Identify root causes and route cases to risk, onboarding, or operations as needed.
• Ensure compliance with banking regulations and governance standards.
• Promote risk-aware culture and support effective risk and compliance practices.

Skills

Complaints Handling

Root Cause Analysis

Stakeholder Management

Banking Knowledge

Governance & Compliance

Education

Graduate degree

Job description

Trust is the first of a new breed of banks in Singapore – digitally native and focused on delivering a delightful customer experience. You will work in a fast-paced and collaborative environment to solve new and interesting challenges each day. Together with our Trust team, you will help shape the future of our bank.

As a Customer Relations Specialist, you will be able to work on and help service our customer base, learn new ways of working, and build delightful high-quality experiences for our customers. Be responsible for providing an effective and timely resolution of customer complaints across the bank. The role oversees high-volume complaint handling operations, ensuring fair customer outcomes, regulatory compliance, and adherence to service standards.

In addition, the incumbent will identify systemic issues through root cause analysis, drive corrective and preventive actions, and collaborate with stakeholders across the organization to improve processes, controls, and customer experience while preventing complaint recurrence.

Reporting to the Customer Relations lead, the role holder will be responsible for the following:

The Role Responsibility:

• Manage the end-to-end handling of customer complaints, ensuring timely, fair, and consistent resolution in accordance with regulatory requirements and internal policies.
• Manage daily complaint management operations, including timely case creation, acknowledgement, investigation, escalation, and closure of high-volume complaint cases in a seamless and frictionless manner according to the relevant policies and procedures.
• Ensure complaints are handled fairly, consistently, and within established service level agreements (SLAs).
• Review complex or escalated complaints and recommend appropriate resolutions.
• Maintain accurate and comprehensive complaint records, investigation notes, and correspondence.
• Identify the root cause and route cases to relevant parties (e.g. risk, fraud, onboarding, ops) to resolve the issue feedback/complaint.
• Ensure complaint handling practices comply with applicable banking regulations, consumer protection requirements, governance policy, portfolio management standards, system delivery framework and internal governance standards.
• Act as the bank’s defence, and promote a risk-aware culture, ensure efficient and effective risk and compliance management practices by adhering to require standards and processes.

Role Specific Technical Competencies:

Skill

Target proficiency level

Written and communication skills

Advanced

Complaints handling in a high-volume environment

Core

Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)

• Complaint resolution within agreed turnaround times.
• Quality and accuracy of complaint investigations.
• Regulatory and policy compliance.
• Reduction in recurring complaints.
• Timely completion of corrective action plans.
• Customer satisfaction and fair outcome measures.
• Quality of root cause analysis and reporting.

Our Ideal Candidate:

• Graduate with extensive years of experience in Customer Complaints Handling, ideally in financial institutions or high growth start-ups.
• Experience in root cause analysis, process improvement, and stakeholder management.
• Experience in complaints handling in a high-volume environment
• Good understanding of Banking and Financial products, Bank’s control framework, Governance structure, conduct risk, and consumer protection requirements preferred.

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Trust is an equal opportunity employer. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind.

We are committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees and to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment.All employment decisions at Trust are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to age, gender, physical ability, race, religion or belief, family or parental status, sexuality, or any other status protected by laws or regulations. We will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics. We encourage applicants of all ages.