Reconcilliations Accountant

Reconciliations Accountant | 6 Months | Retail Banking | Up to £400 p/d outside IR35 or £90k pro rata | Hybrid

My client, a growing retail challenger bank, are looking to hire an experienced reconciliations accountant to assist with a general ledger reconciliations project, in preparation for an ERP implemantion.

Key Tasks

• Reconciliations - Investigating and clearing historic issues.
• Reconciling to known data sources - reconciling data sources for deposits, overdrafts, credit cards.
• Two-way reconciliations where appropriate
• Documenting instructions for reconciliation and controls
• Deep dive into incoming/outgoing cash against the cash files, dealing with other departments for resolution of any issues that might arise.
• Mastercard, BACS, Control accounts, Suspense accounts, Faster Payments Scheme
• Detailed understanding of extract and processing of daily files from the card processing system on a daily basis.
• MasterCard daily settlement advisement reconciling to movements on the aggregate cardholder balance.
• Investigating cardholder adjustments file to Sage financial ledgers and resolving any errors / incorrect fee codes.
• Reconciliation of debtor's cash posted by distributor reconciliation template and Sage accordingly.
• Reviewing and reconciling MasterCard settlements processed.

Background:

• Qualified Accountant with over three years PQE
• Extensive background in reconciliations in retail banking is a must
• Have previously worked in a project/transformation type role
• Working with Netsuit/Sage is desirable

There is no sponsorship available for this position so applicants must already have a right to work in the UK.