Senior Analyst, Global Reconciliation job at Tala (formerly InVenture)
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Vacancy title:
Senior Analyst, Global Reconciliation

[ Type: FULL TIME , Industry: Business Management and Administration , Category: Data Science / Research ]

Jobs at:

Tala (formerly InVenture)

Deadline of this Job:
31 December 2022  

Duty Station:
Within Kenya , Nairobi , East Africa

Summary
Date Posted: Monday, December 19, 2022 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

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JOB DETAILS:
• We are looking for a Senior Analyst Global Reconciliation to join the Global Accounting Team of Tala. This person will support the Global Reconciliation Program across all regions, ensuring the reliability of Tala’s data through reconciliation with third party records. The candidate will drive efforts in determining discrepancies, and coordinate with the respective 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. The candidate should feel comfortable working with both technical and non-technical stakeholders and be comfortable working with high volumes of data and reports, participating actively in the definition of corrective actions in the spirit of resolving the identified discrepancies.

What you’ll do:
• Collaborate with Data, Product and Engineering to build a sustainable reconciliation program, with a goal to produce reliable exception reports that can be used to enable timely adjustments.
• Coordinate and provide support for market team partners to investigate and resolve exceptions determined.
• 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.
• Maintain external data files (Rails transaction statements) and input values into various reports in an efficient manner.
• Support the Finance team in monthly revenue recognition preparation and diving into inquiries on retro data changes in Accounting reports

Who you are:
• Loves data – will dig deep to understand the intricacies of a data set
• Can manage discovery and reporting projects from end to end
• Have a strong curiosity around what makes a business tick
• Know how to translate questions into a set of metrics, requirements, and/or reporting

What you’ll need:
• 3- 4 years of relevant experience Financial analytics, Reconciliations
• Bachelor’s Degree in Finance, Mathematics, Computer Science, Information Management, Statistics or related fields
• Strong proficiency in Excel required, Knowledge of and experience with reporting and data visualization packages (Lookr, Tableau, Amplitude), databases (SQL etc), programming (SQL, XML, Javascript, or ETL frameworks)
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to collect, organize, analyze, and disseminate significant amounts of information with attention to detail and accuracy
• Adept at queries, report writing and presenting findings
• Statistics and experience using statistical packages for analyzing datasets (Excel, SPSS, SAS, R, etc.) a plus but not required
• Strong communication skills with the ability to influence in a dynamic, cross-functional environment; customer-focused, with strong history of driving results, managing complexity and dealing with ambiguity Basic understanding of core accounting concepts (balance sheet, profit and loss account, impact of cash transactions on accounts receivable)

Work Hours: 8


Experience in Months: 36

Level of Education:
Bachelor Degree

Job application procedure
• Interested and qualified? Go to Tala (formerly InVenture) on jobs.lever.co to apply

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Job Info
Job Category: Data, Monitoring, and Research jobs in Kenya
Job Type: Full-time
Deadline of this Job: 31 December 2022
Duty Station: Nairobi
Posted: 19-12-2022
No of Jobs: 1
Start Publishing: 19-12-2022
Stop Publishing (Put date of 2030): 19-12-2065
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