The Bank for International Settlements, BIS is hiring a Back Office Officer in the Banking – Back Office department of the Representative Office for the Americas in Mexico City.

Our Representative Offices in Mexico and Hong Kong serve as centres for BIS activities in their respective regions, strengthening relations and promoting cooperation between the BIS and regional central banks and supervisory authorities. To that end, the two offices foster the exchange of information and data, facilitate the organisation of meetings and seminars, contribute to the Bank's financial and economic research on the Americas and Asia and the Pacific and provide the full suite of BIS’s banking services for regional central banks.

Please note that we offer relocation support for the successful candidate and their immediate family members.

This job is available as three years fixed term.

The deadline for application is on Wednesday 4 February 2026 end of the day.

Purpose of the job:

Our mission is to support central banks' pursuit of monetary and financial stability through international cooperation, and to act as a bank for central banks.

You will contribute to this mission by:

  • Working on transactional Back Office tasks, as well as contributing to various stages of projects or continuous improvement initiatives.
  • Working on various processes and protocols, ensuring conformity with best market practices and compliance rules.

By joining the Back Office Operations team, you will:

  • Become familiar with a broad range of products, processes, and systems in the operations environment.
  • Be part of a team with high impact responsibilities in processing, confirming, validating transactions and payments.
  • Benefit from working in an international environment that offers flexible working with a blend of onsite work and home office.

Principal Accountabilities:

  • Validation and confirmation of trades, ensuring the accuracy and timeliness of confirmations, settlements, and payments.
  • Resolve exceptions for all non-standard and complex operations for bonds, money market, FX and derivatives instruments.
  • Create, check and maintain instrument definitions in the trading system.
  • Investigate and resolve issues together with front office, custodians, and customers.
  • Involvement in settlement instructions maintenance process.

Qualifications, skills, and experience:

  • Proven Banking Back Office experience and good knowledge of Banking instruments, market practice and new initiatives in the banking / financial industry.
  • Experience in Swift messaging formats, including payments and confirmations messages. 
  • Knowledge of Bloomberg information systems.
  • Flexible, collaborative and excellent team player.
  • Good organizational skills with the ability to work to deadlines.
  • Customer-focused with good communication skills.
  • Proficiency in English. Knowledge of German, Italian or French desirable.

Who we are:

Internationalism is at the core of our identity and the best representation of this is our workforce. With employees from over 66 countries and offices in nine locations, the BIS is a global organisation with a truly international workforce. By joining us, you will work in a unique, highly rewarding, and international work environment. We are committed to equal opportunities at the BIS and aim to build a workforce that reflects our global membership. We strive to attract the best talent and foster an inclusive environment. We welcome applications from all qualified candidates, including those with a breadth of professional experience. You can discover more about our inclusive working environment here.

What the BIS offers:

We want your time at BIS to be a rewarding and career-enriching experience. We offer an agile and flexible working environment with hybrid working opportunities including home office and working from abroad days. To support our international applicants, we offer relocation support that extends to your dependent family members. In addition, we offer a competitive compensation and benefits package, including support for working families including childcare and education allowances (where applicable). Finally, we offer a genuinely unique international working environment, which will give you exposure to the global financial system and the opportunity to collaborate with passionate experts from all over the world.

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