Reconciliations Specialist - 160605

Are you looking to gain experience within a top 5 bank? Do you have strong Reconciliation experience? If so, this is a great opportunity for you!

Our client, a top 5 bank, is looking for a Reconciliations Specialist for a 7 months contract in Mississauga. This position is working onsite 3 days a week and 2 days a week from home.

Possibility (not guaranteed) of extension and conversion.

Pay rate : $22.70 - $27.51 / Hour

Working Hours : Monday Friday 37.5 hours / week

Advantages

• Gain experience within a top 5 bank
• Hybrid remote work
• Start date is ASAP
• Long term contract
• Competitive pay rate

Responsibilities

• Preparing reconciliations and attestations per prescribed Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs)
• Ensuring true breaks are identified, investigated / reported and items that represent a potential loss are escalated immediately
• Supporting all questions pertaining to in house reconciliations and support investigations for outages for outsourced reconciliations
• Using in-house and online tools to do first level investigate on outages in order to speed up resolution
• Displaying good judgment and decision-making skills in dealing with breaks and reporting
• Working with various stakeholders relating to various reconciliation functions
• Doing peer reviews on other reconciliations prepared by the team
• Leading the charge on designing new reconciliations and amending existing reconciliations where needed
• Using new and existing tools to automate and recommend solutions for data ingestion, analytics and visualization to create efficiencies in the reconciliation preparation process to reduce lead time
• Demonstrating flexibility to assume project work outside of the general reconciliation process
• Creating monthly and ad hoc statistic reporting
• Posting journal entries where necessary

Qualifications

• Finance degree
• Reconciliation experience
• 5+ years of experience with an accounting or similar role
• Willingness to collaborate and build strong relationships across business functions
• Advanced working knowledge of Excel / Microsoft Office suite of products
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills. Able to collaborate and build strong relationships with multiple stakeholders

Nice-to-have

• Data visualization experience (preference in Tableau and / or Power BI)
• Experience navigating datasets using Structured Query Language (SQL) for analytical purposes or experience with programming languages
• Knowledge of Insurance products / operations, familiar with insurance accounting, together with willingness and interest to develop that knowledge

Summary

Interested in the Reconciliations Specialist role in Mississauga? Apply online today!

Candidates moving towards the next step of the recruitment process will be contacted.

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