️ Reconciliations Assistant
Remote
Finance
Full Time, 6 Month Initial Contract
Do you enjoy working with numbers, investigating discrepancies, and ensuring financial records are accurate and up to date? Are you passionate about maintaining high standards of quality and compliance, collaborating with colleagues across the business, and supporting critical financial processes? If you thrive in a fast-paced environment and enjoy problem-solving in a growing fintech, we'd love to hear from you.
The Financial Control Reconciliations Assistants will carry out the daily reconciliations of all the credit card suspense accounts ensuring that all rejects are investigated and actioned. The main reconciliation tool used will be Intelli-match. This is a 6-month fixed-term contract with the opportunity to become a permanent position, subject to business needs and performance.
Who we are
Jaja is a UK‑based consumer finance business with a simple mission: to empower customers to buy, borrow and build using smart tech, strong data, and clear design. We launched our digital credit card in 2018 and we’re continuing to grow, with new products and experiences in the pipeline. Our goal is to strip out unnecessary complexity and give people more control over their money — or as we put it, Make Simple. Our values guide how we work: Care Deeply. Adapt & Thrive. Challenge Everything. Go For It. Own It. Make It Simple. We’re scaling quickly, and there’s a lot of exciting change happening across the business.
What’s the opportunity?
You will work in a dynamic fast paced environment, delivering a significant change agenda for a business that is shaking up the Consumer Finance industry. Working with a passionate set of colleagues who excel at delivery you will have a varied and interesting portfolio of activity that is not constrained by the status quo.
Experience within a credit card environment is preferred, although not required.
Key Accountabilities
- Daily reconciliation of all payments, settlements and rejects accounts.
- Ageing of outstanding items, escalating any exceptional items to your line manager
- Investigating all reconciling differences in accordance with SLA’s
- Liaising with the Payment Services & other Jaja teams on a daily basis.
- Raise and post journals to the finance system for any adjustments that may be necessary from the investigation of the reconciling items
- Ensuring all tasks are operated to the highest levels of quality & compliance in line with defined standards and procedures.
- Assisting the reconciliations team leader with updates to reconciliation procedures as necessary.
Essential skills and Experience
- Be highly numerate with focus on accuracy and attention to detail
- Be an accomplished user of Microsoft Office
- Good oral and written communication skills.
- Be able to work to strict deadlines and within a team environment
What's in it for you?
- The chance to make a real impact in a growing business on a mission to change the face of the consumer finance industry forever
- Competitive salary
- Pension contributions, including Salary Exchange facility
- Annual bonus potential
- Private medical cover provided by Vitality (optional benefit)
- 25 days annual leave (FTE) plus UK bank holidays (with an additional day added for each full calendar year worked, up to a maximum of 30 days).
- Your birthday off each year as an additional day's holiday
- 4x life insurance cover
- Access to our confidential Employee assistance programme
