VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT
Balkan Finance Investment Group, BALFIN Group, is one of the most significant and successful investment groups in the Western Balkans region. Geographically, BALFIN Group is present in Austria, Albania, Kosovo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Switzerland, Croatia, the Netherlands, and USA, employing approximately 5,000 people. The activities of BALFIN Group comprise real estate, wholesale and retail, banking, asset management, media, education, and logistics. BALFIN Group is growing steadily, having a positive impact on the communities through economic development, employment opportunities, innovation, and social investment.
Tirana Bank is the first privately-owned bank in Albania. It was founded in 1996 and since then there has been a great development, spreading its branches throughout Albania. Today, Tirana Bank is well-positioned in the market, offering a wide range of products and services that respond well to the demands of its customers. Tirana Bank has 35 branches in most major cities, and industrial zones and has a large ATM network throughout Albania. Tirana Bank continues to grow and expand while rigorously retaining its philosophy of providing quality products and services by being the frontrunner in innovative banking solutions in Albania.
We are seeking to welcome a qualified Senior Swift Payments & Compliance Officer (Band 4T) reporting directly to the Head of Open Banking processes & Integration Unit.
Overall Job Definition
The Senior Swift Payments & Compliance Specialist analyzes supports and maintains the operational assurance systems that support Bank’s operations by using the possibilities provided.
Main Responsibilities:
- Dedicated, focused and specialised on the payment products and related business processes and respective flow
- Responsible for the processing of all type of payments and related flow as per the payment products, channels, Payment management and assure compliance verification on all steps.
- Cover smoothly not only the system upgrades and new releases, but also adopt gradually the transformation of the waterfall methodology to an agile one for new projects
- Analyzes Payment processes and exploits issues arising from the Branch Network, Swift and Local Clearing.
- Analyzes the specifications and operating requirements for new and existing Payment services.
- Proposes improvements concerning the operation of IT Systems related to his area of responsibility.
- Analyzes requirements for the management of customer details with respect to the products under his area of responsibilities in Bank customer-oriented systems.
- Supervise the setup of business analysis of the Bank’s products and services related to the area of responsibility.
- Supports in coordination with the Delivery Manager to guarantee the project schedule to be on time, mitigating the risk generated projects inter-dependency
- Supports the Head of Open Banking Processes and Integration Unit on the requirements analysis with respect to Core systems and Operational issues
- Implement Parameters changes for his area of responsibility
- Implements systems functional testing and supports user acceptance testing (UAT).
- Help personnel adjust to the related process during times of change.
- Support the business to identify customer needs and make prioritizations for his area of responsibility
- Support the managing of requirements regarding timelines and priorities
- Resolves operational problems.
- Provides support to TB employees for issues related to his area of responsibilities
- Any other duty that is delegated to the employee by the supervisor
Competencies / Skills:
- Owns a High School Diploma in Economics, Business Administration, Technical or similar discipline. Master’s Degree is preferable
- At least 3 years’ experience in a Bank Organization or Operations Department, preferably in intrabank payments flow & products
- Excellent English Knowledge
- Good analytical thinking
- Very good organizational skills
- Very good orientation to Quality
- Problem Solving skills
- Orientation to Improvement & Development
- Very good collaboration and Team Spirit
The interested candidates can send their CV until September 20th, 2024 at link
Please note that only applicants, who fulfil the above-mentioned criteria, will be contacted.
Your personal data, which are sent voluntary as a response to this job vacancy announcement, are collected and processed, manually and/or electronically, by Tirana Bank SA, in order to evaluate your compatibility with this job vacancy, are accessed only by authorized persons of the Bank and will be stored until the finalization of the candidate selection process. The subjects of personal data can exercise their rights as provided by Law No. 9887, dated on 10/03/2008 “For the Personal Data Protection”, amended, at Tirana Bank SA, as well as at the Commissioner for the Right of Information and Protection of Personal Data.
