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Payment Controls Specialist

Apolis

Whippany, NJ

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JOB DETAILS
SALARY
$32–$37 Per Hour
SKILLS
Analysis Skills, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Coaching, Data Quality, Loan Collateral, Operational Control, Operational Improvement, Operations Management, Payment Processing, Problem Solving Skills, Procedure Implementation, Process Improvement, Production Control, Risk, Risk Analysis, Risk Management, Root Cause Analysis, SSI, Team Lead/Manager, Technical Operations, Transaction Processing/Management, Trend Analysis
LOCATION
Whippany, NJ
POSTED
4 days ago
Job Title: Payment Controls Specialist
Location:  Whippany NJ office 4 days per week
Contract: 4+ Months
Overall Purpose of Role
Execute and provide senior support in the payment control activities within the Payment Control Gateway
(PCG), ensuring effective review, validation and risk-based decisioning on payments prior to release, while
maintaining strong control discipline and operational oversight.
Main Duties and Responsibilities
- Provide support to BA4 and run daily payment control processing activities
- Review and challenge decisions on payment release, hold or escalation
- Ensure payments are validated against trade data, confirmations and SSI
- Act as first point of escalation for high-risk or complex payment scenarios
- Ensure adherence to control procedures, limits of authority and audit requirements
- Drive root cause analysis on exceptions, breaches and near misses
- Identify themes and trends in false positives and control gaps
- Partner with Technology and SMEs to refine rules and improve detection accuracy
- Oversee production of MI on volumes, outcomes and control performance
- Coach and develop analysts to ensure consistent quality and decisioning
- Collaborate with Operations, Technology and Front Office stakeholders to resolve complex scenarios, verifying if
they can independently – but if there’s any doubt/queries they should relentlessly interrogate the data and get
direct answers from the services as to the rationale/process for the payment
Basic Qualifications:
- 5+ years experience in Global Markets Operations or payments processing environment
- Good understanding of payment flows, settlement lifecycle and control points
- Experience managing or supervising operational teams
- Ability to assess transaction risk and make structured decisions
- Strong analytical and problem-solving capability
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience in payment controls, transaction monitoring or risk/control environments
- Knowledge of FX, Derivatives, Collateral or Financing products
- Experience working with rule-based or AI-driven detection models
- Strong stakeholder management with Operations and Technology
- Experience driving process improvement and operational optimisation

About the Company

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Apolis

Since 1996, RJT has provided successful SAP, Oracle, and IT consulting solutions and staffing services to clients around the world. The new Apolis brings you the same personalized service fortified with a greater array of IT solutions, global expertise, and cost-management strategies.

We are a global IT consultancy that seamlessly integrates experts and leading-edge solutions into your organization so you can focus on what really matters.

COMPANY SIZE
500 to 999 employees
INDUSTRY
Computer/IT Services
EMPLOYEE BENEFITS
Paid Sick Days, Employee Referral Program, Employee Events, Retirement / Pension Plans
WEBSITE
https://www.apolisrises.com/

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