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AML Analyst

Key Responsibilities:

• The primary responsibility will be supporting the AML Team with the day to day AML requirements relating to prepaid card programmes.
• Generate reporting and undertake in-depth transactional and behavioural reviews on customers and programmes for PFS.
• Respond to Police and Regulatory third party information requests including Police requests and productions orders
• Respond to corresponding banking queries relating to AML/CTF queries
• Monitoring transactions and payments across all PFS programmes and card holders including SEPA, Faster payments, cash/voucher loading and ATM spend.
• Submitting SAR’s to the relevant authorities on behalf of PFS.
• Make informed and Prompt decisions on customer behaviour and transactional assessments to mitigate potential risk to PFS.
• Ensuring the AML inbox is managed and all AML queries are actioned within the agreed SLA.
• Review SOF/SOW documents received from customers.

Essential skills:

• Our ideal candidate should hold a university qualification and along with the relevant AML experience within the Financial Services sector.
• You will be motivated and enthusiastic with a high degree of integrity and can demonstrate excellent organisational skills.
• Strong data and information analysis through system and report utilisation.
• The ability to communicate risks in a simplified and concise manner.
• The ability to lease with senior management in relation to complex issues.
• Accuracy and attention to detail.

Salary: Negotiable depending on experience.

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Duties / Key Responsibilities - Required:

• Advanced skills/knowledge in O365 \ Azure Security Controls, Policies and Alert Management
• Manage on-going PCI DSS certification, vulnerability resolution, evidence compliance
• Responsible for both the internal and external Vulnerability Scanning programme
• Technical lead of Forensic security related incidents/investigations
• Endpoint Security Management
• Management of the Cyber Threat Intelligence platform and incident investigations
• Develop and establish positive working relationships with both IT and key business users
• Raise, monitor, action Security Incidents, Service & Change Requests via the Jira change application
• Assist with IT Security Programme, including User Analytics/Machine learning AI, Advanced Remote Access, Mobile Device Management, Endpoint Threat Detection management, MS Exchange advanced threat Protection, O365/Azure Security tools/policies/Alerts
• Manage the end to end Penetration Testing schedule and risks
• Ad-hoc report writing, Security Bulletins, Management Information, Security Updates, Security documentation & procedures
• Assist with ISO/27001:2013 certification programme, ISMS & Cyber Essentials certification

Support:

• Assist and help co-ordinate both Internal and External audit activities / IT Security Questionnaires and support of Bids/RFI’s/Tenders/Due Diligence.
• Update and maintain Application Logical Access Reviews for identified PFS applications in an auditable and timely manner following existing procedures
• On-going support of the IT Security Staff Education/Training Awareness Programme
• Support the development, revision and implementation of IT governance policies, procedures, standards and controls and ensure that these are fully embedded in the activities of all IT teams and associated IT suppliers.
• Recognise any gaps in the effectiveness of the implemented IT controls and identify and act upon opportunities for enhancements.
• Support activities necessary to successfully undertake any FCA, Banking, ISAE, ISO or ICO reporting and standards reviews. 
• Provide strong central oversight to deliver consistency and quality in compliance work across the IT organisation.

IT Security Knowledge/Skills/Experience:

• Has a ‘passion’ for IT Security / Degree Educated / Min 3 years+ in a similar IT Security role
• Extensive experience of PCI DSS certification controls and processes, plus working knowledge of environments where compliance meets ISO27001:2005:2013 / NIST standards / PCI DSS certifications
• Ability to work with staff at all levels, stakeholder management
• Experienced in writing and reviewing IT policies and process documents

• Excellent English grammer, written and verbal communication skills.
• Work well under pressure both independently and within a team
• Extensive O365 MS Office / Azure / Security Centre / Policy experience
• Good understanding of network security architecture, protocols and principles
• Security Firewalls reviews/remediation of issues identified and compliance
• Internal/External Vulnerability Scanning Management
• Security Forensic investigations
• Application & Network Security/Architecture
• Deep understanding of Encryption
• Web Application Firewalls
• Mobile Apps / API’s
• MS BI Query experience

Industry recognised qualification/certifications such as:

• CISSP
• CISM
• CISA
• PCI DSS
• ITIL

Experience with implementing and ongoing IT Security Company Certifications, e.g.

• ISO/27001:2013
• PCI DSS
• Cyber Essentials / Plus
• ISMS / Frameworks

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IT Security Knowledge/Skills/Experience:

• Has a ‘passion’ for IT Security / Degree Educated / Min 3 years+ in a similar IT Security role
• Extensive experience of PCI DSS certification controls and processes, plus working knowledge of environments where compliance meets ISO27001:2005:2013 / NIST standards / PCI DSS certifications
• Ability to work with staff at all levels, stakeholder management
• Experienced in writing and reviewing IT policies and process documents

Work well under pressure both independently and within a team

• Extensive O365 MS Office / Azure / Security Centre / Policy & Alerts experience
• Understanding of encryption (Application / Data etc)
• Excellent English grammar, written and oral communication skills
• Good understanding of network security and application architecture, protocols and principles
• Internal/External Vulnerability Scanning Management
• Security Forensic investigations
• IT Security Audit actions / management
• Penetration testing investigation/remediation
• Mobile Apps / API’s
• MS BI Query

Industry recognised qualification/certifications such as:

• CISSP
• CISM
• CISA
• PCI DSS
• ITIL

Experience with implementing and ongoing IT Security Company Certifications, e.g.

• ISO/27001:2013
• PCI DSS
• Cyber Essentials / Plus
• ISMS/ Frameworks

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Senior Financial Accountant

This Senior Finance role is responsible for the management of the finance team and reporting to senior management.

Due to the size of the organisation, the multiple touch points within this role and the scale of responsibilities, the successful candidate must be highly skilled at multi-tasking, flexible, adaptable and have a 'can-do' and 'will-do' mentality. This role requires a high level of initiative and organization to function at expected levels of performance and to deliver set goals.

Duties will include:

• Prepare timely and accurate month end reporting packs
• Provide variance analysis, commentary and insight on financial results and present these results as required
• Ensure Balance Sheet is maintained and all control accounts reconciled on a monthly basis
• Ensure inter-company reconciliations are completed and reviewed at month end
• Produce the monthly/bi-monthly PAYE/PRSI, VAT, CSO Returns for the business
• Review all prepayments and accruals at month end
• Posting of the monthly payroll journal and reconciliation of the payroll control accounts
• Manage and review direct reports on a day-to-day basis through the Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable functions
• Motivate and coach direct reports to achieve their performance objectives and where necessary actively manage any underperformance
• Manage the annual audit requirements
• Review the financial expenditure within the company and identify ways to reduce costs
• Assist with ad-hoc projects and tasks as they arise

The successful candidate will have:

• Accounting Qualification desirable
• 5+ years PQE desirable
• Strong staff management experience
• Card Payment Industry experience a distinct advantage
• Broad based experience of Finance, operations and other control functions would be a distinct advantage
• Experience in managing monthly forecasting processes and in monthly accruals processes
• Experience of working with Senior Management to support decision making
• Excellent communications, presentation and interpersonal skills
• Project oriented with the ability to multi-task and perform effectively under pressure
• Ability to work with all levels of management, clients and support groups
• Strong computer and analytical skills. – Experience using Sage and Sun Accounting Systems

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Product Owner  / Project Manager– Back Office Portal

PFS are now looking to appoint a Product Owner/Project Manager – back Office portal who will report to our CTO.

The Role:

This role will be involved with strategy, roadmap and defining features as well as the following responsibilities:

• Working with various teams in the business to define the product roadmap
• Full ownership and management of the product from inceptions, requirements gathering through to deployment
• Working with a designer, you will project manage the development of a next generation Back Office Portal
• Liaising with all workstream leaders understand their daily activities and processes, taking feedback of how the current system hinders them in their daily activities.
• Liaising with Account Managers to tap into client feedback and complaints about our current MACP interface.
• As well as catering for current functionality, improving it and making it more user friendly, you will be asked to add additional functionality to reflect the ever growing  suite of products PFS offer.
• Introduce intuitive and useful dashboards
• Working with developers and architects to ensure all necessary functions, tools, reports, interfaces are redeveloped on the new platform while redundant / unnecessary code is not.
• Working with developers to ensure that the new platform employs new database and technical methodologies and techniques – Redis, Elasticsearch, RabbitMQ ,etc.
• Ensuring that the new system meets PSD2 and MFA requirements.
• Ensuring the system meets ISO 27001 requirements
• Ensuring the system caters for accessible to a wider range of people with disabilities, including blindness and low vision, deafness and hearing loss with the deployment of Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1
• Implementing Single Signon Functionality(Allowing 3^rd parties log in seamlessly through their own interfaces)
• Developing detailed BRDs which can be handed over to a team of developers to evaluate and draft technical specifications before development
• Developing User stories and a test plan for the new system
• Developing Training manuals for the platform to be used internally and externally at different levels

Skills and Experience

• Previous experience in a similar Product role
• Any experience within banking, Payments Fintech is desirable
• Track record of exceeding targets based on performance of products
• Strong communicator with the ability to deal with stakeholders both internally and externally at different levels

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Head of FX/Liquidity/Treasury Management

As Head of FX/Liquidity/Treasury Management, you will be responsible for managing all our cross-currency trades, managing our third-party FX providers and ensuring that we maximise our return on FX Services.  

As Head of FX/Liquidity/Treasury Management, you will also be responsible for the following:

Group Treasury Function:

• Analyse daily cash and liquidity positions
• Manage Company cash needs and produce weekly MI reports
• Manage the Company’s FX exposures
• Draft and review treasury policies
• Settlement and confirmation processing and control
• Oversee the input and processing of FX transactions into the main accounting system
• Manage settlement of FX activity
• Liaison and relationship management with key partners and banks
• Maintain, review and implement business risk controls
• Responsible for all FX management reporting, including monthly FX Reports for senior management
• Negotiate FX deals on best execution basis
• Keeping abreast of regulatory requirements

Key Role Requirements:

• Minimum of 5 years relevant experience in FX in European markets
• Ability to lead and influence change and realise a best in class FX function for our European markets
• Excellent analytical, reporting and excel skills and thorough knowledge and skill in analysing, interpreting financial reports, technical procedures, government regulations
• Ability to work within fixed and short timeframes, especially for dealing and settlement
• A proven team player with excellent communication skills
• Relevant degree – Finance/Business/Maths
• Professional qualifications e.g. association of corporate treasurers
• Good experience in cash management, FX dealing

Benefits:

• Move into the Fintech Space working for a cutting-edge payments company at the forefront of change in Europe
• A competitive salary packages
• Participation in company share allocation scheme after 12 months satisfactory service.
• Located in Navan so easy commute outside of the Dublin area for Meath locals
• Work for a highly regarded and rapidly expanding payments provider
• Be a pivotal part of the expansion of PFS throughout Europe and around the world

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Head of Risk & Compliance:

This is a unique opportunity and exciting time to join an award-winning Global Fintech. We have embarked on an implementation of a next generation payments platform. PFS has been at the forefront of the Fintech sector with market leading technology solutions for governments and corporates and now have ambitious plans to expand our business internationally.

The Role of Head of Risk and Compliance is a diverse role , encompassing elements such as the company risk appetite, risk governance framework, risk registers, Mastercard rules, data protection, business conduct regulations for provision of payment services and issuance of e-money

This position will closely coordinate with the leadership of other departments such as IT, Product and Customer Service. An important aspect of this role will be the design and maintenance of the processes that supports all risk activity.

The Head of Risk and Compliance will be responsible for creating a positive work environment in the organization. Critical deliverables will be management reporting, maintenance of a strong control and security environment and implementation of appropriate and improved policies, procedures, productivity measures and quality measures. Additionally, special projects and investigative studies should be conducted to continuously improve the expertise, approach and organization

It will be essential for the successful applicant to develop an understanding of the technology platforms deployed by the business to ensure the compliance and risk management framework and product deployment reflects the relevant systems’ capabilities.

The successful candidate will already have experience in a regulatory compliance and risk control environment, will thrive in a dynamic work environment, be solutions oriented, possess a keen commercial acumen and have significant drive and enthusiasm to implement risk based, commercially appropriate and regulatory compliant processes.

Competencies and Key Role Requirements

• Ability to build relationships quickly as well as a structured approach to tracking, managing and remediating performance.
• Good interpersonal skills and relationship management are essential for dealing with people at all levels.
• Able to demonstrate excellent enthusiasm and leadership and a strong work ethic necessary to succeed in a dynamic, fast-moving and results orientated environment.
• Able to work in a time pressured and dynamic environment with a high degree of accuracy whilst maintaining focus and concentration.
• Become a trusted regulatory solutions provider for the business teams to ensure regulatory risk and compliance are embedded into sales and product development processes from the outset and develop, implement and maintain processes and procedures for business teams to follow for achievement of this requirement.
• Ownership and development of European regulatory compliance and risk management framework for the European business streams.
• Keeping abreast of relevant European and local regulatory developments from a compliance and risk perspective.
• Point of contact for all Regulator Supervisory reviews, audits or escalations
• Recommend enhancements in regulatory compliance and risk processes and assist other business units where required with analysis, providing oversight, expertise and problem solving
• Travel will be required.

Qualifications & Experience

• Professional risk or compliance related qualification an advantage.
• Minimum of 5-6 years’ work experience as a Leader in a financial services environment in the Regulatory/Compliance Operations /Risk area and payment services experience with the payment card schemes and/or e-money issuance is highly desired.
• Implementation of risk and compliance management programmes in a commercially driven manner.
• Understanding of risk from a regulatory and commercial perspective.
• Excel proficiency a minimum requirement.

Benefits:

• A competitive salary package
• Participation in company share allocation scheme.
• Work for a highly regarded and rapidly expanding payments provider.
• Be a pivotal part of the expansion of PFS throughout Europe and around the world.

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L2 Support Specialist

Thanks to our incredible growth we are looking for one L2 Support Specialist to join our company.

We are looking for a team player that wants to be part of a technology driven team. If you’re used to showing technical leadership in a collaborative environment and you like to experiment with and implement new tools and technologies, this could be the job for you.

The Role

• Previous experience in a Support position eesential
• Data extraction analysis including strong SQL query writing
• A passion for problem solving
• Excellence in customer service
• Experience of the following would be beneficial: C#, Jira.
• Excellent attention to detail
• Be able to work in a fast-paced work environment
• Analytical with a questioning mind and keen interest in technology
• Creative thinker and ability to think out of the box
• Pragmatic and results driven
• st be a team player and be able to work within a local team and teams across multiple geography’s
• Be able to adhere to company policies and procedures at all time
• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills are required
• Possess a proven ability to work in cross-site and cross-functional teams and to multitask in an interrupt driven environment.

Technical Ability

• Capability of understanding and contributing to technical solutions and managing paths to resolution
• Escalation management
• Managing and delivery of multiple issues simultaneously
• Supporting the development and delivery of the overall business strategy
• Working as part of a key business critical team across multiple geography’s
• Take responsibility for ensuring that issues are identified and dealt with to a predefined SLA
• Identify opportunities for continuous IT improvement
• Driving all team members to deliver on time
• Proven experience of delivering support in a structured environment
• Comfortable with working with a limited supervision and taking the initiative
• Position will include some software development/scripting of related enhancements, supplemental systems, and/or support and manipulation of monitoring tools

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Testing/QA Specialists

Leading Financial Technology Company looking for dynamic, skilful and enthusiastic people to join our Testing/QA team in Dublin and Meath. The ideal candidates will be dependable team-players who will own and drive the Testing process for our cutting-edge technology products.  You will be able to understand Functional and Technical specifications and translate these into Test Scenarios, Cases and Scripts.

The Role:

• This role involves the testing of functionality, which is delivered through a combination of applications and services.
• The successful candidate will own the test pack and associated documents, and be expected to continually refine and improve it to make it as efficient as possible.
• Contributing to all aspects of the QA process for new and existing functionality, through a mix of automated and manual testing.
• Support the development team in identifying and documenting issues, as well as to identify test requirements.
• Execute test cases and provide clear results and metrics to the Project Manager/Lead Architect. Raise bug reports where necessary.
• Manage the Test and Staging environments and associated Test Data.
• Work to accurately evaluate risk and provide estimates for tasks

Qualifications / Experience:

• A relevant Third level degree in IT or equivalent Testing Qualification (ISEB, ISQTB)
• Proven professional experience as a Tester/QA Analyst or equivalent experience in a Technical Support Environment.
• Experience with Automated Test Tools (Selenium, Ranorex, Cucumber etc.)
• A Team player with excellent communication skills (both written and verbal), particularly the ability to get your ideas across effectively.
• Strong SQL knowledge.
• Technically proficient, familiar with the major development platforms and languages (C#, Java etc.) and RESTful webservices.
• Experience with Jira would be beneficial.
• Experience working within the whole software development lifecycle.
• Willingness to learn and be challenged in a fast-paced environment.
• Understanding of financial services, banking and payment transactions processing would be beneficial but not a pre-requisite.

Experience working within PCI-DSS requirements would be beneficial.

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Software Developers:

We are looking for dynamic, skilful and enthusiastic people to join our Software Development team. The ideal candidates will be dependable team-players who will own and drive the Testing process for our cutting-edge technology products.

The Role:

• Develop cutting edge web and mobile applications for use by our Customers and Internal users
• Produce clean and maintainable code using C#, ASP.Net and Xamarin
• Create and Update SQL Server Tables, Queries and Stored Procedures
• Work with the Innovation Manager and Architect to plan new features and applications
• Work within and enhance our software development expectations, processes, and quality initiatives in a fast-paced environment
• Work to accurately evaluate risk and estimate software development tasks
• Strive to continually improve technical and development skills

Qualifications / Experience:

• Development experience working with ASP.Net, C#, Web API/Web Services and MVC. Experience configuring and working with IIS and Windows Server would be a distinct advantage.
• Experience using jQuery, Bootstrap, Angular or other JS frameworks.
• Strong SQL Server skills including database design and Stored Procedures.
• Experience with Message Queues would be beneficial
• Experience with any Source control tools (Git or Bitbucket experience preferred)
• Experience working within the whole software development lifecycle

If you have a github account and would like to show us what you can do, then please include a link.

Experience working against PCI-DSS requirement would be beneficial. Any payments experience would be beneficial.

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Dev Ops:

Thanks to our incredible growth we are looking for several DevOps engineers to join our company.

We are looking for a team player that wants to be part of a technology driven team. If you’re used to showing technical leadership in a collaborative environment and you like to experiment with and implement new tools and technologies, this could be the job for you.

The Role:

• Manage and monitor the operation of a brand-new cutting-edge Integration with a major payments infrastructure
• Manage accurate operations of key infrastructure and help to drive improvements to ensure scalability and high availability
• Collaborate with multiple teams to design and implement new features
• Network maintenance and troubleshooting issues
• Assist others in the maintenance of systems
• Research new tools and technologies and assist with the automation of deployments and monitoring tools

Qualifications / Experience:

• A minimum of 4 years’ experience in a similar role
• Strong experience in Windows and Linux server administration skills
• Experience in at least one modern software language (Java, C# etc)
• Strong SQL Server/MySQL/MongoDB skills
• Excellent networking skills (firewalls, routing and switching)

Experience working against PCI-DSS requirement would be beneficial. Any payments experience would be beneficial.

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