Settlements Operations Program Manager

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Ascendion is a full-service digital engineering solutions company. We make and manage software platforms and products that power growth and deliver captivating experiences to consumers and employees. Our engineering, cloud, data, experience design, and talent solution capabilities accelerate transformation and impact for enterprise clients. Headquartered in New Jersey, our workforce of 6,000+ Ascenders delivers solutions from around the globe. Ascendion is built differently to engineer the next.

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About the Role

Job Title: Settlements Operations Program Manager

Position Overview

• We are seeking a detail-oriented Settlements Operations Program Manager to support critical settlement and payment operations within a highly regulated financial services environment.
• This role involves managing high-risk operational processes, ensuring transaction accuracy, maintaining compliance with regulatory requirements, and supporting daily banking operations.

Key Responsibilities

• Support daily settlements and payment operations activities.
• Process, review, and approve Fedwire transactions accurately and within established timelines.
• Perform reconciliations, balancing, and DCI balancing activities to ensure operational accuracy.
• Manage miscellaneous credits and payment-related transactions.
• Process and monitor liens, levies, garnishments, and court-ordered account holds.
• Support check processing, invoicing, remittance, and related operational functions.
• Generate, review, and analyze operational reports to identify discrepancies and ensure data integrity.
• Execute high-risk manual processes with a strong focus on accuracy, compliance, and risk mitigation.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to resolve operational issues and improve process efficiency.
• Maintain adherence to regulatory requirements, internal controls, and company policies.

Required Qualifications

• Experience in Payments, Settlements, Banking Operations, or a related financial services environment.
• Working knowledge of Fedwire processing and settlement operations.
• Experience handling garnishments, liens, levies, or similar legal account restrictions is preferred.
• Proficiency in MS Excel and/or G Sheets.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
• Exceptional attention to detail with a commitment to accuracy and quality.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced, highly regulated environment.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting regulated financial operations.
• Familiarity with reconciliation, balancing, and payment processing workflows.
• Understanding of banking compliance, operational risk, and internal controls.

Location: Columbus, Ohio – Hybrid Onsite role

Salary and Other Compensation: The annual [salary/hourly rate] for this position is between [$90,000– 95,000 annually]/[$50.00- $54.00 per hour]. Factors which may affect pay within this range may include geography/market, skills, education, experience and other qualifications of the successful candidate.

Benefits: The Company offers the following benefits for this position, subject to applicable eligibility requirements: [medical insurance] [dental insurance] [vision insurance] [401(k) retirement plan] [long-term disability insurance] [short-term disability insurance] [5 personal days accrued each calendar year. The Paid time off benefits meet the paid sick and safe time laws that pertains to the City/ State] [10-15 days of paid vacation time] [6 paid holidays and 1 floating holiday per calendar year]

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Preferred Skills

Strong experience in Settlements and Payment Operations and including Fedwire processing and banking transaction management.

• Hands-on experience managing Garnishments and Liens and other compliance-driven banking operations
• Expertise in Reconciliation and Balancing and Operational Risk Controls within a highly regulated financial services environment

Job details

Job ID

332328

Settlements Operations Program Manager

Location

Columbus, Ohio, US

Recruiter

Aayush

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About Ascendion

Our engineering, cloud, data, experience design, and talent solution capabilities accelerate transformation and impact for enterprise clients. Headquartered in New Jersey, our workforce of 6,000+ Ascenders delivers solutions from around the globe. Ascendion is built differently to engineer the next.