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Payment Reconciliation Agent

Reconciles end-of-day payment flows against clearing and nostro, clearing breaks.

Squares the day's payment activity against what the clearing systems and nostro agents moved. Catches the duplicate, the dropped message, and the settled-but-unbooked entry, then clears the break or hands it on with the trail intact so the funded cash position is accurate.

Authority

Act within policy

Team role

Completes a defined task

Handoffs

Named collaborators

The role

What it owns and where its authority ends

Desk

Payments Operations

Desk workflow

Payment intake, then validation/screening, then STP or repair, then execution, then investigations/recalls. STP handles the clean ones; the repair queue (bad BIC, missing reference, formatting) is where the exception work sits: above-threshold repairs and recalls route through an oversight-agent re-derivation check to the accountable payments officer.

Collaboration

Calls several specialists in parallel

Decision boundary

Acts only within an explicit policy, permission and escalation boundary.

Systems and capabilities involved

  • Reconciliation engine

  • Clearing / RTGS confirmations

  • Payment engine

  • Nostro break agent

    hand off cash-side breaks

Handoffs

What this role gives and receives

Capabilities offered

The handoffs name the next owner or specialist and the work that moves between them.

Handoff to

Receives from

Context

What the role needs to do the work

Current work
The payment record, the clearing/nostro counter-entry, the match lean.
Prior interactions
Recurring timing patterns per clearing channel.
Policies and reference
Clearing-cycle timing, settlement finality rules, duplicate signatures.
Working method
Not specified for this role.

Checks and boundaries

What must be tested or reviewed

  1. 01Duplicate-payment detection is a hard guardrail; suspected duplicates escalate immediately.
  2. 02Tolerance band on auto-clear; out-of-band mismatches route to an oversight agent.
  3. 03Daily reconciled-vs-unreconciled position re-derived by a judge agent as a check and attested by the accountable payments officer before funding decisions.

Human authority

Acts only within an explicit policy, permission and escalation boundary.

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Payment Repair AgentRepairs payments that fall out of STP and pushes them back onto the rails.Payment Investigations AgentHandles payment investigations, recalls and SWIFT gpi tracing through resolution.