Intermediate Representative Reconciliations

Job Title: Intermediate Representative (Reconciliations)

Location: Manchester (Piccadilly Gardens) 3 days office based, 2 days working from home

Salary: £12.84 per hour, PAYE

Contract Length: 12-month initial contract

Working hours: Monday - Friday, 9am - 5pm, but can vary. Operating hours between 8am - 6pm

Our high-profile banking client is looking for a Banking Reconciliations Analyst to reconcile a range of investment portfolios, on both a daily & monthly basis. This entails reconciling positions, prices, income, and transactions between the records of our client and Investment Managers of the bank's clients. The Banking Reconciliations Analyst will play an active team playing role sharing the collective responsibility to ensure all team deadlines are completed accurately and within deadlines.

This is a fantastic opportunity to learn on the job and progress a career with a huge financial client based in Manchester. The successful candidate will join the Global Institutional Accounting Reconciliations. This team's primary focus is to work in partnership with our stakeholders and be responsible for the production of daily & monthly reconciliations, in accordance with service agreements, internal policies and legal / regulatory requirements.

Responsibilities:

• Complete all relevant daily, weekly & monthly assigned tasks to ensure that all client SLA's are achieved in-line with agreed deadlines and expected standards
• Provide frequent and consistent communication updates, ensuring that any potential internal or external service level breaches are escalated.
• Identify and develop improved working practices to increase efficiency and mitigate risk with a key focus on root cause analysis to reduce operational queries
• Assist to maintain a high level of morale within the team and department by displaying a positive, productive, and professional work ethic.
• Ensure business practices and controls are understood for all clients including those that deviate from the standard service offering.
• Develop own knowledge, to include the financial products used by our clients, operational procedures within the department and those of our internal stakeholders and current market developments.

Skills and Experience:

• Financial industry knowledge preferred but not essential.
• Experience with reconciliations is desired
• Attention to detail, good organizational skills, and the ability to prioritise in order to meet stringent demands.
• Effective written and oral communication skills
• Excellent numerical skills
• Experience of using Microsoft Office products, in particular manipulating Excel spreadsheets.
• Quick to develop new skills and a pro-active approach to learning and training
• Have a flexible attitude responding to the varying demands experienced in a financial services environment.

Please be advised if you haven't heard from us within 48 hours then unfortunately your application has not been successful on this occasion, we may however keep your details on file for any suitable future vacancies and contact you accordingly.

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