Lead, Reconciliation Team at Crowd Force

Job Purpose

• As the Lead of the Reconciliation Team, you will lead a small team of Reconciliation Officers responsible for helping our fintech team reconcile transactions across the general ledger and sub-ledgers to ensure the accounting system reflects the correct transactions.

Responsibilities

• Act as the functional lead of day-to-day operations for the reconciliation team.
• Ensure complete, accurate and timely deliverables in accordance with procedures, policy guidance and applicable regulations.
• Investigate complex account transactions and reconcile to identify and minimize risk.
• Analyse financial data and trace discrepancies.
• Process, verify, and reconcile high volume transactions of complex nature.
• Execute and review the reconciliation of balance sheet and bank accounts ensuring that cash amounts in a company's accounting ledgers agree with bank balances.
• Responsible for reconciling payments to ensure the accounting system reflects the correct transactions.
• Resolve financial dispute and settlement complaints raised by the customers and sales team.
• Manage general ledger reconciliations.
• Manage account reconciliations such as bank, inventory control, clearing, billings etc.
• Issue receipts to customers on receipt of payments.
• Perform daily financial transactions such as verifying, calculating and posting accounts receivable data.
• Ensure wrong postings of transactions are reversed.

Requirements 

• Should have a B.Sc in Accounting, Economics, Statistics or relevant field.
• Must have previous experience leading a team of Reconciliation Specialists.
• Minimum 4 years’ previous experience as a Reconciliation Specialist in a Financial Organizations.
• Previous experience in the Fintech Industry is a strong advantage.
• Understanding of Excel with respect to data manipulation, Vlookup, Text to column, Use of String and Concatenate, advance Filters is a must.
• Must have strong numerical skills.
• Must be Computer proficient, especially in the use of MS Excel.