Operations Analyst
COMPANY OVERVIEW
The Prairie Payments Joint Venture (PPJV) is a joint venture owned by three Prairie centrals created to digitally transform and modernize payment services for credit unions in the Prairies. PPJV’s goal is to ensure prairie credit unions are competitive in payments and have access to efficient, modernized payments processing infrastructure.
ROLE SUMMARY:
Prairie Payments Joint Venture (PPJV) is undergoing a payments modernization initiative and knows that sensible processes are at the heart of a successful workflow. This role is responsible for the processing high volumes and large dollar value transactions for customers, with stringent deadlines for the delivery and settlement of its products and services. The role is responsible for multiple aspects of payment processing of transactions and administration and providing customer support related to these duties.
The Operations Analyst helps us streamline daily operations to ensure efficiency and adherence to budget across all departments. The operations analyst must be comfortable communicating with people throughout the organization, able to solve problems and improvise as needed, and adept at estimating and managing time for a variety of tasks ensuring quality is not compromised.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Provide first level support by monitoring emails
- Troubleshoot, resolve and document customer enquiries
- Perform Business Operation functions for reconciliation, tracing, settlement and exception processing
- Processing of provincial and national adjustments to credit union and or centrals
- Report verification, identify potential fraud items and communicate to credit unions
- Identify and escalate issues where appropriate
- Support risk management by following established policies, procedures and controls, both corporately and within area of responsibility, and escalate discrepancies to management
- Taking appropriate course of action based on processes or your analysis
- Contacting customers to discuss suspicious activity
- Maintain records of outstanding and closed customer queries and produce operational metrics and reports
- Perform analytics to look for system issues or trends
- Participate and contribute to support cross training and cross functionality of the team
- Participate and mange incidents
- Research and implement best practices to ensure continuous improvement
- All other duties as assigned
KEY SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS
- Grade 12, some post-secondary education, and a minimum of 2 years related experience
- Able to apply strong analytical skills to make effective decisions
- Knowledge of payment processing transactions is an asset
- Proficiency level of Microsoft Office Suite. Other software as required
- Maintain high standards of customer service
- Able to handle varying and large volumes of customer inquiries with speed and a high degree of accuracy
- Must be bondable
THE ENVIRONMENT
PPJV is a fast paced and focused environment where employees and contractors share the mission to deliver efficient, cost effective, modernized payments processing to prairie credit unions.
Interested candidates are asked to submit a resume & cover letter via this link by 11:59 PM on April 16, 2025. We thank all candidates for their interest; however, only those candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.