Sr.Analyst-Payments Automation & Analytics
- Toronto, ON, Canada
$43.48 to $56.52 CAD / hour · Contract
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Original job description
Working with one of our top financial clients, this role calls for a Sr.Analyst-Payments Automation & Analytics to support payment transformation and modernization initiatives within a specialized portfolio. This 12-month contract offers the opportunity to improve operational efficiency through automation, intelligent reconciliation, test automation, data analytics, and AI-enabled solutions while collaborating with technology, operations, product, risk, compliance, QA, and vendor stakeholders.
Pay rate range (CAD): $43.48/hr – $56.52/hr
Responsibilities
- Design and optimize automated workflows for payment operations, reconciliation, exception management, and operational controls.
- Identify opportunities to reduce manual processing through scripting, AI-enabled workflows, and low-code or no-code tools.
- Develop and maintain automated test cases and regression frameworks for payment systems and operational platforms.
- Support system integration testing, user acceptance testing, regression testing, and reconciliation validation.
- Investigate payment exceptions, operational variances, and control issues to identify root causes and recommend remediation.
- Support reconciliation and balancing activities across real-time payments, wire transfers, electronic payments, card payments, ISO messaging, and settlement processes.
- Develop automated controls, monitoring solutions, dashboards, reports, and operational metrics to identify anomalies and track performance.
- Analyze payment and operational data to identify trends, inefficiencies, control gaps, and opportunities for continuous improvement.
- Support the implementation of AI and machine learning solutions for anomaly detection, workflow optimization, operational intelligence, and predictive analytics.
- Translate business requirements into scalable automation, reconciliation, and reporting solutions.
- Partner with technology, operations, product, risk, compliance, QA, and external vendor teams throughout the delivery lifecycle.
- Communicate technical, operational, and analytical concepts clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Three to seven years of experience in payments operations, reconciliation, exception management, settlement processes, business analysis, automation, QA/testing, or operational transformation.
- Strong understanding of payment ecosystems, payment flows, settlement, reconciliation, and payment lifecycle management.
- Experience with electronic payments, ACH, wire payments, card and debit transactions, real-time payments, and ISO 20022 messaging.
- Strong process automation experience using Python, SQL, Power Automate, Alteryx, UiPath, or similar tools.
- Experience developing and executing automated testing, including system integration testing, user acceptance testing, and regression testing.
- Strong data analytics, reporting, dashboard development, and operational metrics experience.
- Experience supporting AI-enabled solutions and intelligent automation initiatives.
- Knowledge of operational processes, system integrations, data flows, APIs, and payment processing environments.
- Proven ability to collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders and deliver scalable solutions.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, critical-thinking, written, and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to identify operational inefficiencies, investigate complex issues, and recommend solutions that improve performance and reduce risk.
- Passion for automation, operational excellence, AI-driven transformation, and continuous improvement within financial services and payments environments.
- Experience contributing to large-scale transformation programmes.
- Experience working within a leading banking environment.
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Responsibilities
Design and improve automated payment workflows, reconciliation, operational controls, testing frameworks, dashboards, and analytics. Investigate payment exceptions and operational issues, support AI-enabled solutions, and collaborate with technology, operations, product, risk, compliance, QA, and vendor teams to deliver scalable improvements.
Requirements
Requires three to seven years of relevant experience and strong knowledge of payment flows, settlement, reconciliation, and payment lifecycle management. Candidates should have experience with automation tools, payment testing, analytics and reporting, AI-enabled initiatives, system integrations, and cross-functional delivery.
Skills
- Payments Operations
- Payment Reconciliation
- Exception Management
- Process Automation
- Python
- SQL
- Power Automate
- Alteryx
- UiPath
- Automated Testing
- Data Analytics
- Dashboard Development
- Artificial Intelligence
- Machine Learning
- ISO 20022
- Stakeholder Collaboration
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Categories
- Finance & Accounting
- Data & Analytics
- Technology
- Software
- Consulting
Keywords
- Payments Operations
- Payment Transformation
- Payment Modernization
- Reconciliation
- Exception Management
- Settlement
- Operational Controls
- Workflow Automation
- Python
- SQL
- Power Automate
- Alteryx
- UiPath
- Automated Testing
- System Integration Testing
- User Acceptance Testing
- Regression Testing
- Data Analytics
- Dashboards
- Operational Metrics
- Artificial Intelligence
- Machine Learning
- Anomaly Detection
- Predictive Analytics
- Electronic Payments
- ACH
- Wire Transfers
- Card Payments
- Real-Time Payments
- ISO 20022