Reconciliation and Settlement Officer at VANSO

POSITION SUMMARY

Reporting to the Reconciliation and Settlement Manager, the position will be responsible for the reconciliation activities for Bill Payments with partner organizations including banks, payment processing networks, and service providers.

The Reconciliation and Settlement officer will be charged but not limited with the following responsibilities:

    Perform reconciliation for banks and provide report to Manager, reconciliation and settlement
    Support each bank E-business team in resolving settlement and recompilation issues
    Attend to all queries from clients on payments and ensure they are resolved promptly
    Correctly log all incidents, monitor the incident cycles and document solutions after resolutions
    Monitor the bills payment platform through transaction porter, bank proxies and VANSO Bill payment platform
    Liaise with Bank reconciliation team to ensure reconciled funds are transferred to VANSO account
    Contribute to and maintain system standards within the MBPP payment service
    Carry out income/fees reconciliation with Settlement bank and Interswitch and ensuring value is transferred to VANSO’s account promptly
    Perform daily/weekly analysis of bill payment data: Trends, failure rates etc and extract Business Intelligence from payment data
    Perform any other task as might be assigned by the department

REQUIREMENTS

    Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or other social sciences
    Excellent use of MS Office Applications such as Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Access
    Good verbal and written communication skills
    Ability to remain calm under pressure, Logical and Analytical, Integrity, Organized, Accurate and pays attention to detail
    One (1) - Two (2) years working experience in Reconciliation and Settlement
    Ability to work well within a team, towards a shared goal
    Ability to work under pressure, grappling with multiple tasks.
    Creative in looking for and suggesting improvements
    Ability to convey factual information clearly and accurately
    Self-motivated
    Customer service oriented
    A general knowledge of the accounting principles

COMPENSATION

Compensation and benefits for the role is highly attractive and competitive. 

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

We make it a point to review all application received and contact those we want to speak to further within 10 calendar days. With that in mind, if we are interested in a further discussion, you will hear from us again within 10 calendar days from the date of your application submission.