Working within the Financial Operations team, the key responsibility of the Finance Officer’s role is around safeguarding our customer funds by maintaining up to date reconciliations.    

Reporting to the Financial Partner's Treasury Lead, the candidate will have the opportunity to evolve in a dynamic environment, taking initiative on day-to-day operations and support the client’s very ambitious growth objectives.

Responsibilities

Daily book-keeping duties including maintaining of the general ledgers                                                   

Settlements reconciliations and settlement processing                                                                  

Investigate and address in a timely manner any financial queries and issues related to our Operational Finance function coming from merchants, business partners and International Card Schemes                                                        

Where needed, challenge and work towards improvement of the Company’s operational internal accounting procedures, policies, operations, management controls and reporting

Monthly liaison with Line manager to keep him/her appraised of status/progress/issues, etc                        

Assisting with yearly external audit; preparation of reconciliation statements                                     

Assisting the Corporate team with preparation of monthly client funds bank entries and month-end journals        

Other financial reports as requested on an ad-hoc basis                                                                 

Act as an escalation point for the Reconciliation Officers reconciliation issues                                     

Requirements

In possession of a qualification in Business and Computing, Accounting, Finance, or equivalent                    

Previous experience in a similar role within finance and payments will be considered an asset                      

Conversant with a strong interest in both IT and Finance                                                               

Previous experience with databases and SQL is an asset                                                                 

Results orientated, proactive and can-do attitude                                      

Good stakeholder management experience                                                 

Outstanding analytical and quantitative aptitude combined with attention to detail

Advanced excel skills

Excellent communication skills in English

Ability to work with minimal supervision and be highly organised