Payment & Settlement Officer Job at OPay Nigeria

Job Title: Payment & Settlement Officer
Location: Ikeja, Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time

Job Summary

• The Ideal professional ensures that all assigned reports are accurately and timely reconciled to show a true and fair view of processed transactions with partner organizations including banks, payment processing networks, and service providers.
• Facilitate complete and accurate processing of settlement figures for all transactions / products by ensuring that required due diligence is performed.
• Operate and monitor the critical backend payment processes that allow the organization to deliver an industry-leading payments experience to merchants, Banks, and 3rd party partners.

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Key Responsibilities

• Perform reconciliation for the Products and Partner settlement and provide a report to Lead, reconciliation, and settlement
• Identify and resolve settlement discrepancies and outstanding.
• Identify and recoup funds from Technical Payment glitches
• Attend to all queries from clients on payments and ensure they are resolved promptly
• Liaise with the Bank Settlement team to ensure reconciled funds are transferred to the account
• Contribute to and maintain system standards within Opay’s payment service
• Carry out income/fees reconciliation with Settlement banks, Acquirer processors Payment service providers, NIBSS, and other clients and ensure value is transferred to the Opays account promptly
• Perform daily/weekly analysis of bill payment data: Trends, failure rates, etc and extract Business Intelligence from payment data
• Ensure daily reconciliation of and correct postings into Recons template of Opay Products and other electronic channels transactions
• Verify the incoming and outgoing payment reports
• Processing Settlement to Merchants
• Resolution of Customer issues
• Daily management of our dispute management process on behalf of our merchants and acquirers across the continent
• Provide email and phone support to acquirers and merchants for any dispute-related issues
• Manage the refunds process end-to-end and ensure all refunds are initiated and completed in a timely manner
• Provide email and phone support to merchants for any refund-related issues
• Proactively spot glitches or bugs observed with Opay’s internal disputes or refunds tool and work with relevant product/Engineering teams to ensure they are resolved as quickly and possible
• Daily reconciliation of debits that arise from the chargebacks process and escalation to acquirers where discrepancies arise
• Regularly compile and share insights and trends gleaned during the dispute management and refunds process
• Any other functions as assigned by Management/Supervisor

Requirements

• Candidates should possess minimum of a B.Sc Degree in Accounting or related courses.
• Minimum of 3 years working experience in cards/mobile/payment finance, fully integrated into all aspects of settlement and daily reconciliation process
• Detailed understanding of the operational aspects of payment cards, mobile payments, and the banking industry.
• Previous experience within a Reconciliation, Settlement, or Middle Office environment.

Application Closing Date
20th July, 2023.

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