Manager, Switching Operations at Flutterwave

Our mission is to power a new wave of prosperity across Africa. By enabling global digital payments on a continent that’s been largely cut off from the digital economy, we’re creating the infrastructure to power Africa’s growth in the 21st Century. Founded in 2016 by a team of ex-bankers, entrepreneurs and engineers, we provide the underlying technology platform that allows businesses to make and accept payments anywhere in Africa. Our HQ is in San Francisco with offices in Lagos, Nairobi, Accra, and Johannesburg

The Role: 

• As a Manager, Switching Operations your primary responsibility is to ensure that all transactions through our different products get to their destination through the best available route, selecting from the variety of providers available.
• Simply put, when our customers initiate payments, we ensure the transaction gets to the provider and update the provide response on our system.
• Also ensure our systems are up, to always serve this purpose.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Support Payout/Funds transfer processing in a timely manner.
• Monitor transactions and ensure all rails are functioning optimally.
• Monitors transactions and for signs of fraudulent activity, promptly escalates potential issues to the fraud team for investigation and resolution.
• Collaborate with cross functional teams to resolve customer related issues.
• Handles escalations to the team lead or relevant stakeholders and ensures resolution in line with relevant SLA.
• Working with the CX and TAM team in investigating and resolving complaints relating to payout through assigned resolution channels.
• Assists with process improvement tasks such as creating processes, tracking progress and updating stakeholders.
• Transaction Reconciliation.
• Proactively think of strategic methods to improve processes.
• Any other duties assigned Process Improvement
• Work with all sub-teams to identify various touchpoints and design processes to optimize same
• Continuous evaluation of current processes vis-à-vis best industry practice

Required competency and skillset to be a waver

• Bachelor’s degree in business or relevant field required.
• Minimum 7 years of proven experience in switching operations, preferably in the financial technology or payments industry.
• Understanding of the payment industry.
• Open-Mindedness and Result Oriented
• Ability to work with Microsoft suite.
• Ability to work in a cross-functional team.
• Excellent interpersonal, presentation skills and communication skills.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Ability to identify errors.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and meet set deadlines.
• Work goal-oriented based on minimum supervision
• High sense of responsibility, accountability, integrity, and ethical standard

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