Treasury Payments Executive / Assistant Manager

About the role

This role is responsible for the accurate, controlled and timely execution of treasury payment activities across multiple ofi entities, business units, currencies, bank accounts and geographies. It is based in Marina One, Singapore, with a 5-day-in-office arrangement. The incumbent oversees payment operations, resolves exceptions, maintains banking access and supports payment connectivity and system-change initiatives, while ensuring compliance with internal controls, sanctions requirements, anti-money laundering standards and bank cut-off times.

Key responsibilities

• Manage end-to-end payment processing for assigned ofi entities and oversee the Shared Services Payments Team to ensure compliance with approved standard operating procedures and control requirements.
• Execute and monitor outward remittances, foreign-exchange settlements and related banking transactions through OpenText / ECM, SAP host-to-host channels, bank portals and other approved platforms.
• Ensure payment batches are created, verified, approved, transmitted and accepted within banking cut-off times, and escalate delays or rejected files promptly.
• Investigate inward and outward remittance exceptions, rejected or delayed payments, missing payment visibility, bank queries and settlement issues, coordinating with internal stakeholders and banking partners.
• Respond to queries from business units, shared services, banks, Treasury, Compliance and IT, giving clear status updates and agreed follow-up actions.
• Act as subject-matter expert for bank and corporate-card portals, including navigation, user administration, access maintenance and periodic access reviews in line with segregation of duties.
• Ensure payment activities comply with internal policies, documented procedures and regulatory requirements, and support indexing and verification controls and the maintenance of restricted or blacklisted-name records.
• Keep up to date with sanctions-screening and anti-money laundering requirements and escalate potential concerns through approved compliance channels.
• Coordinate host-to-host transmission issues and support multi-bank connectivity implementation, testing and stabilisation.
• Take part in user acceptance testing, defect resolution and deployment support for system upgrades or migrations, including SAP S/4HANA, SAP Treasury and Risk Management, OpenText / ECM cloud migration and other treasury platforms.
• Support the Cash Manager in funding daily cash needs via approved interbank and intercompany transfers, and prepare periodic reports on payment volumes, exceptions, root causes and technical incidents.
• Recommend automation, process simplification and control enhancements, and support bank confirmations, audits and other projects assigned by the supervisor.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in Banking, Finance, Accounting or a related discipline.
• Minimum of five years of relevant experience in corporate treasury payments, payment operations or a shared service environment.
• Sound understanding of payment controls, beneficiary and payment verification, bank cut-off management, sanctions screening, anti-money laundering requirements and segregation of duties.
• Ability to manage high transaction volumes and competing priorities in a fast-paced, cut-off driven environment.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with clear written and verbal communication and a proactive, service-oriented approach to stakeholder management.
• Demonstrated ownership, attention to detail, reliability and sound judgement; adaptable to system changes, automation and new ways of working.

Required skills

• Hands-on experience with SAP, SAP Treasury and Risk Management, OpenText / ECM, host-to-host payment connectivity and bank portals is preferred.
• Strong Excel spreadsheet skills, including working on SAP data dumps and using AI tools to boost productivity.