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About the team:

We are looking for someone who is curious, motivated, passionate about numbers with finance / accounting experience to join us. Our team is responsible for the reconciliation of merchant payments, card scheme settlements and Worldpay cash accounts.

We are looking for a newly qualified accountant to join our team. This is a senior role in the team so you will support the team with more complex reconciliation work, prepare journal entries and month-end tasks.

What you will be doing:

You will be responsible for supporting completion of daily reconciliations, completion of journal postings, investigations and resolving aged breaks. You will support the wider team to meet daily cash reconciliations deadlines.

You will also support with compliance and audit work and take ownership of small projects and process improvements.

Key Responsibilities:

• Daily completion of all data uploads and identify process improvement through automation.
• Journal validation and approval of simple journals, preparation of complex journals for approval by manager.
• Root cause analysis of more complex reconciliation differences, MI reporting and distribution
• Complex aged item investigation, resolution and stakeholder engagement
• Daily/Weekly/Monthly reconciliation sign off and QA sampling in accordance with SOX compliance.
• Monthly aged break reviews and reporting.
• Month-end tasks including balance sheet reconciliations on ARCS
• Ensure audit tasks and queries are fully resolved and owned.
• Point of contact for query escalations and support team on incident management
• Acquire specialist knowledge to provide accurate advice and information to both internal and external sources in a timely and professional manner, taking full ownership through to resolution.
• Prioritise workload effectively throughout the day to ensure all SLAs are adhered to
• Work as part of the team to ensure daily objectives are met.
• Continually look for ways of improving processes, providing potential solutions and following through to implementation to deliver efficiencies, develop and update SOPs. Lead various small projects.

What you bring:

• Proven track record of large-scale reconciliations
• Considerable accounting-based systems experience and proficient in MS Office, especially Excel
• Experience managing and reporting on large volumes of data
• High level of analytical skills
• Passion for attention to detail and getting it right first time
• Able to prioritise and deliver to deadlines, adaptable to changing priorities
• Able to manage multiple queries at one time, determined and able to persist through problems and resolve queries
• Highly motivated, able to work in a fast moving, challenging environment
• Comfortably and confidently engage with other team members and stakeholders

Added bonus if you have:

• Fully or partially qualified - ACCA or CIMA
• Payments, acquiring or finance industry experience

Working hours are 8-4 or 9-5. This is a hybrid role working 2 days in the office and 3 days working from home.

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