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Cobre is Latin America's leading B2B instant payments platform, building advanced financial infrastructure that enables enterprises to move funds faster, securely, and efficiently. The company serves fintechs, payment service providers, banks, and financial teams across the region with real-time payments, automated treasury, and a unified interface for both banked and unbanked beneficiaries.
The Operations Analyst – Foreign Exchange role is responsible for executing, controlling, and reconciling the company's foreign currency buy/sell operations and fund channeling activities, ensuring full compliance with Colombian foreign exchange regulations and accurate reporting to regulatory authorities.
Key responsibilities include:
**Operation & Processing:** Process and verify foreign currency buy/sell operations and income/expense channeling operations (both mandatory and voluntary). Validate supporting documentation including exchange declarations, exchange numerals, import/export records, external debt, investments, and service documentation. Assign and validate exchange numerals and verify proper completion of exchange declarations. Manage settlement and fulfillment of operations in local currency and foreign currency with correspondent banks and counterparties.
**Control, Reconciliation & Reporting:** Perform daily reconciliation of positions, compensation accounts, correspondent accounts, and accounting balances. Identify, investigate, and resolve pending items, discrepancies, and operational exceptions. Prepare and transmit foreign exchange reports required by Banco de la República, DIAN, and Superintendencia Financiera de Colombia within established deadlines. Support generation of proprietary position reports and other applicable regulatory reports.
**Compliance & Risk Management:** Apply current foreign exchange regulations (Resolución Externa 1 of 2018 and related norms). Implement SARLAFT controls in daily operations including counterparty validation, alerts, unusual operations, and timely reporting to Compliance. Identify and escalate operational risks, errors, and risk events; participate in improvement plan implementation. Address requirements from internal audit, external audit, and supervisory authorities.
**Internal Coordination:** Address operational inquiries from clients and commercial teams regarding foreign exchange procedures and required documentation. Coordinate with Treasury, Accounting, Compliance, Technology, and Commercial teams to ensure proper operation flow. Document processes and propose efficiency and automation improvements.
**Requirements:**
- Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Economics, Finance, Public Accounting, Industrial Engineering, or related fields
- Minimum 1–3 years of experience in treasury operations, money desk, back office, or foreign currency channeling
- Proven experience at entities regulated by Colombia's Superintendencia Financiera (banks, brokerage firms, financing companies, foreign exchange intermediation societies, regulated fintechs, etc.)
- Essential technical knowledge: Colombian foreign exchange regime (exchange operations, exchange numerals, exchange declarations, mandatory and voluntary channeling, compensation accounts); IMC operations and reporting obligations to Banco de la República, DIAN, and SFC; SARLAFT and operational risk management (SARO); foreign trade and international payment products and operations (remittances, transfers)
- Desirable: experience with treasury transaction systems and cross-border payment platforms; intermediate English (document reading and correspondent communication); SQL, Power BI, or automation tools knowledge
