Senior Financial Services Analyst

Business Unit:

Cubic Transportation Systems

Company Details:

Responsible for all back-end settlement transactions and the reconciliation and reporting associated with these tasks. Responsible for analyzing the needs of the most complex and critical areas within the Financial Settlement team. Acts as a liaison between the services team and the product team ensuring that the solution requirements are clearly documented, communicated, and validated. Works closely with the product technical team and/or outside vendor to design, develop, document and test a solution that meets the business requirements. This position typically works under general supervision and direction. Incumbents of this position will regularly exercise discretionary and substantial decision-making authority.

Job Details:

Essential Job Duties and Responsibilities:

• Perform pay/collect, reconciliation and settlement activities as allocated, ensuring timeliness and quality of deliverables and compliance with internal policies and procedures, and oversee and coordinate daily activities
• Manage reconciliation issues until resolved, and monitor defect tickets. Escalate and resolve problems with external and internal payment systems. Work closely with merchant acquirers and banks.
• Prepare monthly, quarterly, and yearly reporting, with variance analysis, aging and commentary for management review and for client submission. Comply with local tax regulations as required.
• Perform daily reviews of reconciliations and approvals as necessary.
• Answer queries timely from internal departments, external customers, auditors, and third parties. Follow up issues for resolution.
• Ensure general ledger balances and settlements comply with any relevant business rules, KPI, delivery timelines or conforming balances requirements. Ensure tasks adhere with all legal, regulatory, policy and business requirements.
• Provide support to functional and user acceptance testing for enhancements and new products.
• Create databases, macros, and other automation tasks to streamline department processes. Work with cross-functional groups to resolve issues, develop processes, and identify efficiency improvements where possible.
• Identify system process improvement and assist with development and testing of automation of reports where relevant. Work with senior lead to develop and improve business solutions, help plan and implement improvements, draft report specifications, ensuring workarounds and processes are documented and comply with control requirements.
• Provides support and training for analysts and new hires.

Other General Duties and Responsibilities:

• Comply with Cubic's Quality Management System
• Comply with Cubic Occupational Health, Safety and Environment policies and procedures
• Comply with security in accordance with established policies and procedures of the organizations
• Comply with Cubic Human Resources Procedures
• Other duties as requested

Minimum Job Requirements:

Desirable:

• Knowledge of electronic funds movement or payment industry
• Demonstrated experience building databases or other automation activities such as Power BI, Python, or robotics

Essential:

• Four-year college degree in accounting, finance, or similar
• 4 years accounting and reconciliation experience or as a Business Analyst or Data Analyst
• Advanced Excel skills
• Demonstrated ability to reconcile large volumes of data
• Demonstrated experience in deep-dive variance investigation and analysis

Personal Qualities:

• Self-starter with ability to monitor and implement projects and provide support to analysts
• High levels of customer support and service delivery
• Able to work well within a team and in a fast-paced environment
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, both written and verbal
• Excellent organizational and follow-up skills
• Excellent time management skills to meet required deadlines and key performance indicators
• Eye for detail, with the ability to read, analyze, and interpret financial reports and translate to other departments

The description provided above is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all job duties, responsibilities and requirements. Duties, responsibilities and requirements may change over time and according to business need.

Worker Type:

Employee