Merchant Helpdesk Associate

About the role :

The Merchant Helpdesk Associate is responsible for providing frontline support to merchants by handling inquiries, service requests, and issue resolution related to Point-of-Sale (POS) terminals, payment acceptance solutions, merchant onboarding, settlements, transactions, and digital acquiring services.

What you will be doing :

• Deliver exceptional customer service to merchants by addressing inquiries, service requests, and complaints promptly, professionally, and effectively, ensuring a positive customer experience. 
• Adhere to established Service Level Agreements (SLAs), quality standards, and operational procedures to ensure consistent and efficient service delivery. 
• Accurately document and maintain records of merchant interactions, service requests, complaints, and resolutions within designated systems and databases. 
• Identify, investigate, and escalate unresolved, high-priority, or complex issues to the relevant teams, ensuring timely follow-up and resolution until closure. 
• Ensure full compliance with Bank policies, regulatory requirements, card scheme regulations, risk management frameworks, and information security standards. 
• Support merchant onboarding, maintenance, and servicing activities while ensuring accuracy, completeness, and compliance with internal controls. 
• Contribute to process improvement initiatives and operational excellence programs aimed at enhancing merchant satisfaction, service quality, and overall operational efficiency. 
• Participate in business continuity, service recovery, and contingency planning activities to minimize customer impact during system outages or operational disruptions.  
• Collaborate effectively with internal departments, external vendors, payment partners, and support teams to facilitate seamless end-to-end service delivery. 
• Monitor service performance, identify recurring issues, and provide recommendations to improve processes, controls, and customer experience outcomes. 
• Maintain up-to-date knowledge of merchant acquiring products, payment solutions, banking procedures, and industry best practices to effectively support merchants and stakeholders.  
• Perform any additional duties assigned by management in support of departmental objectives and business requirements.
• Identifying customer needs and tailoring solutions to meet their specific requirements and managing trouble-shooting on an on-going basis. 
• To overcome objections, persuading and finding resolutions for customer issues 
• Interact with customers over the phone to understand their banking needs. 
• Provide personalized service by thoroughly and efficiently gathering customer information, assessing and fulfilling customer needs, and educating the customer where applicable. 
• Resolve problems over the telephone and when required appropriately escalate customer queries and complaints for resolution. 
• Coordinate with Acquiring Operations, IT, Digital, Vendors, Finance, Fraud Risk, and Product teams to resolve merchant-related issues. 
• Generate and maintain operational reports related to service requests, complaints, incident trends, and performance metrics. 

What we are looking for: 

Minimum Qualification: 

• Bachelor's degree in banking or related field. 

Minimum Experience: 

• At least 1-2 years’ working experience in similar field, Banking / Customer Service Experience is recommended. 
• Bilingual is preferred. 
• Very customer focused. 
• Computer literate with a strong writing skill. 
• Excellent communication skills.