Payments Operations Specialist

Payments Operations Specialist

Location: (Work from Home Eligible) Candidates in the Columbus, Ohio and Jacksonville, Florida area are preferred; remote employment is also possible for candidates in Michigan, Indiana, North Carolina, Texas, Tennessee, and Alabama.

Schedule: Rotating weekly shifts (8:00am 5:00pm and 10:00am 7:00pm)

Compensation Range: $24.23 26.80/hour, commensurate with experience and qualifications

We are seeking a detail-oriented Payments Operations Specialist to join our team. This role plays a critical part in ensuring the accurate, timely, and compliant processing for Corporate One's member payment activity. The ideal candidate brings hands-on payments experience, particularly with domestic and international wire transfers, ACH, checks, Real Time Payments (RTP), and OFAC compliance, and thrives working independently under tight deadlines.

This position offers the flexibility to work from home while supporting extended operating hours through a rotating weekly schedule.

What You'll Do:

• Monitor wire transfer and real-time payment (RTP) queues to ensure timely and accurate processing.
• Process domestic and international wire transfers in accordance with established procedures, regulatory requirements, and service level standards.
• Perform OFAC compliance on wire transactions, document decisions, and conduct due diligence on potential violations and matches. Escalate issues to the OFAC Lead, when appropriate. Assist in monitoring all relevant transactions for potential OFAC violations or suspicious activity.
• Process image handling of international checks for transmissions to payment providers. Handle paper check deposits for shipment to payment providers, ensuring credit is provided to the depositing credit union.
• Supports member credit unions by addressing processing inquiries.
• Perform end-of-day balancing and reconciliation to ensure payment accuracy and system integrity.
• Support additional payments-related tasks and projects as needed.

Desired Qualifications:

• High School Diploma
• Minimum of two years of related experience in banking or credit union operations preferred. Payments and wire transfer experience are strongly preferred.
• OFAC compliance experience, including reviewing alerts, documenting decisions, and performing due diligence
• Strong attention to detail, organized, accurate, analytical and ability to work accurately under deadlines
• Excellent communication skills and a service-oriented mindset when supporting member credit unions
• Ability to work independently in a remote environment while remaining responsive and accountable
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office Word, Excel, Access and Outlook. Familiarity with Internet, Fedline-web/FedAdvantage and domestic wire transfers. Demonstrated working knowledge of systems needed to access and process member transactions; specifically FedAdvantage and incoming and outgoing wire database and the Internet including US Treasury for OFAC compliance.

About Corporate One: Corporate One is a leading wholesale financial services provider to more than 700 credit unions nationwide. For over 70 years, we've delivered innovative investment, funding, and payment solutions to help credit unions and their communities thrive. Alongside our CUSOsLucro Commercial Solutions and Accolade Investment Advisorywe're committed to empowering our members' success.

Why Join Us?

• Organizational Strengths: One of the nation's largest and most progressive corporate credit unions with more than $7 billion in assets and an average staff tenure of 10+ years
• Competitive Compensation & Benefits: Generous 401(k) matching, quality health and ancillary benefits
• Work-Life Balance: 4 weeks of PTO starting year one, 11 paid holidays, and paid parental leave
• Learning and Development: Access to online training, mentoring, and business coaching
• Fun Perks: Tuition reimbursement, gym membership reimbursement, pet insurance, and year-round events

Ready to bring your payments expertise to a collaborative and mission-driven team? We'd love to hear from you!

Corporate One Federal Credit Union is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, age, or veteran status.