Client Banking Specialist

GOEBEL FIXTURE COMPANY; El Segundo (CA); On-site; USD 70,000 - 76,000; Full time

Job summary

GOEBEL FIXTURE COMPANY is seeking an exempt, full-time Banking Operations Specialist in El Segundo, CA. You will coordinate client bank accounts, collect documentation, and ensure compliance with KYC, CIP, and sanctions rules.

You will process outgoing wires via approved channels, verify instructions through dual-control, and maintain audit-ready records for all activities. Three or more years in banking operations or related roles are preferred; a 4-year degree is required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, business or related field and strong accounting knowledge.
• Experience in banking operations, treasury, or control-intensive roles is preferred.
• Familiarity with KYC, CIP, and sanctions screening processes.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate opening, maintenance, and closing of client bank accounts following procedures.
• Collect and verify required account-opening information and documentation.
• Ensure proper compliance including due-diligence, and sanctions checks.
• Process outgoing wire requests with validated source, beneficiary, and banking details.
• Verify wire instructions using dual-control and approved channels.
• Maintain separation of initiation, approval, release, and reconciliation duties.
• Identify incomplete or conflicting information and escalate as needed.
• Keep audit-ready records and documentation for all accounts and wires.
• Protect confidential information and use secure systems per policy.
• Coordinate with Relationship Managers, Finance, and banking partners.

Skills

Dual control

KYC

CIP

Fraud prevention

Banking operations

Wire processing

Data security

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, business

Tools

Microsoft 365

Google Workspace

Spreadsheets/Excel

Job description

• Base Pay $70,304.00 - $76,000.00 / Year
• Employee Type Exempt FT
• Required Degree 4 Year Degree
• Manage Others No

Description

• Coordinate the opening, maintenance, and closing of client bank accounts using approved Verita and financial-institution procedures.
• Collect and review required account-opening information, including evidence of authority, authorized signers, tax documentation, organizational or court records, contact information, and completed bank forms.
• Confirm that required customer-identification, due-diligence, beneficial-ownership, sanctions-screening, and bank-specific documentation has been completed or routed to the authorized reviewer, as applicable.
• Receive and prepare outgoing wire requests only through approved channels and confirm the source account, beneficiary, receiving bank, routing or SWIFT information, account number, amount, currency, requested date, business purpose, and supporting documentation.
• Independently verify new or changed wire instructions using trusted contact information and approved callback or secondary-verification procedures; do not rely solely on instructions contained in an email.
• Apply the approved authorization matrix, transaction limits, dual-control requirements, and segregation of duties before any wire is released.
• Ensure that initiation, approval, release, and reconciliation responsibilities remain appropriately separated and that final release is completed only by an authorized approver.
• Identify and elevate incomplete documentation, conflicting instructions, unusual urgency, account changes, fraud indicators, sanctions concerns, or requests that fall outside established authority.
• Maintain complete checklists, status logs, approval records, verification evidence, bank confirmations, transaction references, and audit-ready documentation for every account and wire.
• Reconcile completed activity to approved requests and promptly investigate rejected, returned, delayed, duplicated, or incorrectly processed transactions.
• Protect confidential banking and personal information, use approved secure systems, and follow access-control, data-retention, and incident-reporting requirements.
• Maintain current standard operating procedures, job aids, templates, and control documentation, and support periodic access reviews, control testing, audits, and process improvements.
• Coordinate professionally with clients, Relationship Managers, Finance or Treasury approvers, banking partners, operations, and other authorized stakeholders.
• Use approved AI and automation tools only for low-risk administrative support, such as checklist preparation, status summaries, and procedure maintenance; never use AI to approve, authenticate, or release a wire.

Requirements

• Experience with bank-account administration, treasury operations, payment operations, wire processing, cash management, financial services, or another control-intensive environment.
• Strong understanding of dual control, segregation of duties, authorization limits, independent verification, fraud prevention, and audit evidence.
• Ability to gather and validate detailed banking instructions accurately while managing time-sensitive requests and competing priorities.
• Sound judgment and the confidence to pause or elevate a transaction when information, authority, or verification is incomplete.
• Clear and professional written and verbal communication with clients, financial institutions, and internal approvers.
• High discretion when handling confidential financial, personal, and account information.
• Excellent organization, documentation, reconciliation, and follow-through skills.
• Comfort using bank portals, spreadsheets, workflow or ticketing systems, document repositories, Microsoft 365, and Google Workspace.
• Ability to follow established procedures precisely while identifying practical opportunities to improve efficiency and control quality.
• At least three years of relevant experience in banking operations, treasury, cash management, account administration, payments, fiduciary operations, or a comparable financial-control role is preferred.
• Hands-on experience opening business, fiduciary, trust, estate, bankruptcy, or other complex accounts is strongly preferred.
• Hands-on experience preparing or processing domestic and international wires under dual-control procedures is strongly preferred.
• Knowledge of KYC, CIP, beneficial-ownership, sanctions-screening, fraud-prevention, and information-security concepts is preferred.
• Experience in bankruptcy, trustee administration, fiduciary services, legal services, or another regulated environment is preferred.
• Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, business, or a related field, or equivalent relevant professional experience, is preferred.
• Employment is subject to required background, access, and security reviews.