Tala – Reconciliation Analyst at Tala
About Tala
At Tala, we’re applying advanced technology and human creativity to solve what legacy institutions can’t or won’t. We are a global financial infrastructure company on a mission to unleash the economic power of the global majority, recognizing that today’s financial infrastructure doesn’t work for most of the world’s population.
Given the global nature of our team, we operate on a remote-first approach with office hubs in Santa Monica, CA (HQ); Nairobi, Kenya; Mexico City, Mexico; Manila, the Philippines; and Bangalore, India.
Most Talazens join us because they connect with our mission. If you are energized by the impact you can make at Tala, we’d love to hear from you!
The Role
We are looking for an Analyst within our Finance Global Reconciliation Team at Tala. This person will support the Reconciliation Program specific to our Philippines market, ensuring the reliability of Tala’s data through reconciliation with third party records. The candidate will drive efforts in determining discrepancies, and coordinate with market partners to investigate and resolve, with the collaboration of all relevant stakeholders.
The Global Reconciliation Program is an essential part of our day to day business operations as it ensures that all of our transactional data recorded in our systems are accurate and complete and matches properly the third party statements together with Tala’s internal accounting system.
What You’ll Do
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Collaborate with Data, Product and Engineering to implement a sustainable reconciliation program, with production of reliable exception reports that can be used to enable timely adjustments.
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Coordinate and provide support for market team partners to investigate and resolve exceptions determined. While working long hours won’t be required, there may be some flexibility required on selected working hours to allow for sufficient overlap with our teams in our markets (Philippines, Kenya, and Mexico)
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Prepare, produce, and validate daily, weekly, and monthly transaction-level reconciliations and reports to ensure real-time detection of data anomalies and other risk event issues reports.
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Maintain external data files (Rails transaction statements) and input values into various reports in an efficient manner
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Prepare regular reporting to Sr Analyst in Kenya, along with reporting to stakeholders to communicate any significant resolution adjustments as well as accumulated discrepancies yet to be resolved.
What You’ll Need
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1-2 years of relevant experience Financial analytics, Reconciliations
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Bachelor’s Degree in Finance, Mathematics, Computer Science, Information Management, Statistics or related fields
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Strong proficiency in Excel required, Knowledge of and experience with reporting and data visualization packages (Lookr, Tableau, Amplitude), databases (SQL etc)
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Strong analytical skills with the ability to collect, organize, analyze, and disseminate significant amounts of information with attention to detail and accuracy
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Adept at queries, report writing and presenting findings
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Statistics and experience using statistical packages for analyzing datasets (Excel, SPSS, SAS, R, etc.) a plus but not required
