This is a one year Industrial Placement starting on 7th September 2026. To be eligible for this programme you must be currently studying at University and undertaking a one year industrial placement as part of your course. You must be returning to University in September 2027.
Application Process
We aim to make our application process as simple and as straight forward as possible, but also want to ensure candidates have the appropriate skills for the roles that they are applying for. Registration is simple and, if eligible for the programme, you will be sent a 30-45 minute online assessment as part of the application process. If you are successful at the assessment we will be in touch shortly after to arrange the two stage interview process.
Applications for this programme will be open until we receive enough applications. When that happens, we’ll close the programme to new candidates. Please complete your application as soon as possible to avoid missing out.
Job purpose
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This is an integral role in providing first class service to clients by ensuring the Payment and Treasury team becomes the bank wide centre of excellence for all client, investment and treasury payments.
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Where applicable, to place the interests of customers at the centre of all activities, act in a way that is consistent with achieving good outcomes for consumers; and
- to comply with the FCA and PRA's Conduct Rules.
Key Responsibilities:
This role is responsible for ensuring that all payments and treasury operations are fulfilled in line with procedures, service level agreements and with a high first time yield and provide support to the Senior Assistants and Team Leader, by way of, but not limited to:
- Procedure maintenance
- Assisting with adhoc projects
Client Service
- Keying all payments for Arbuthnot Latham clients and interbank including but not limited to CHAPS, Faster Payments, SWIFT, SEPA and treasury payments.
- Investigate queries relating to all transactions
- Monitor work items to ensure that SLA’s are met with a view to exceeding them
- Monitor the payment repair and exception queues
- Client advices are generated and issued within SLA’s
Operational Excellence/ Risk
- Efficient and accurate input of payments
- Ensure all operational guidelines are followed and maintained
- Sanction checking inward and outward payments
- Observe and adhere to internal policies and procedures
People
- Support team work within the direct Payments and Treasury Team and wider Banking Operations Teams
Finance
- Reconcile all relevant suspense accounts and actively chase outstanding entries
Key Interfaces
- Work closely with other Payment & Treasury Operations team members.