Zepz Group is the group powering leading global remittance brands: WorldRemit and Sendwave. Zepz Group has been disrupting an industry previously dominated by offline legacy players by reducing the barriers to finance and increasing safety and convenience for users. Every day, Zepz Group and its brands work towards unlocking the prosperity of cross-border communities through finance and technology - driven by the vision of a world that celebrates migrants’ impact on prosperity, at home and abroad. Zepz served over 9+ million users through its presence in over 4,600 corridors with over 40 send countries and 90 receive countries
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Our Commitments:
- We act like owners - We are relentlessly delivering for our users and spending money thoughtfully.
- We embrace embarrassing honesty - We function best when we're open and honest with one another — especially about our challenges and doubts.
- We have a bias to action - We get to first outcomes quickly, iterate and learn.
- We strive to be better - We may make mistakes, but always learn from them.
- We are inclusive - to better reflect and serve our users.
About the role:
This role sits within WorldRemit’s financial operations team (FinOps), as a Reconciliation Analyst, assisting in the review and coordination of the month and year-end reconciliations process. Responsible for performing reconciliations, investigating items with internal and external parties, and identifying opportunities for streamlining/automation.
What you will own:
Reporting to the Assistant Finance Manager, you will:
- Perform both daily and monthly complex settlement asset and liability reconciliations in line with the timetable, process, and controls in place, using a reconciliation tool to match our data with statements received from the acquirer and banks.
- Support teammates in issue resolution of daily reconciliation when the need arises
- Where required, format statement templates for new partners and update Statement templates when needed for old ones to match with reconciliation tool requirements.
- Liaise with FinOps colleagues, and internal teams (e.g. Network, Operations, Treasury, IT, Cash Rec Team, and Refunds Team) in addition to contacting partners to investigate, resolve reconciling items, and gather statements to be imported into the reconciliation tool.
- Raise and post journals to the finance system for any adjustments that may be required from the investigation of the reconciling items
- Attend and actively participate in review meetings, giving accurate status updates on your deliverables and raising any queries or issues.
- Flag if any improvements could make the process or reporting more efficient or improve controls.
- Prepare or update detailed process documentation for assigned accounts
- Support your Manager and colleagues with any internal or external audit requests.
- Participate in any ad hoc tasks as required e.g. reporting or projects
- What you bring to the table:
- Finance based degree with 3 to 5 years experience in any one of the following areas: Reconciliations, Audit/Accounts preparation, working in a shared service centre, forensic accounting.
- Experienced reconciliation analyst accustomed to working with large balance sheet reconciliations using a reconciliation tool.
- Attention to detail and a methodical approach to completion of your deliverables
- Team player with well developed communication skills both verbal and written.
- The ability to prioritize and meet deadlines efficiently in a fast-paced environment.
- A flexible individual who enjoys working in a changing environment, with an enjoyment of problem-solving and a strong analytical mindset.
- Strong Excel skills and understanding of bookkeeping
- Experience in finance transformation projects and /or system implementations is advantageous.
- Previous experience of using Blackline is advantageous.
Bonus points if you have:
- Blackline
- Systems implementation experience
- Finance Transformation experience
What you’ll get from us
Please note that the benefits below will apply to permanent roles.
We have five core benefits for our talent in the US, UK, Philippines, Poland, and South Africa. specifically:
- Unlimited Annual Leave: Feel free to make the most of your time off and maintain a healthy work-life balance!
- Private Medical Cover: You can opt-in to a Private Medical Insurance scheme. This provides you with access to thorough medical coverage, so you can feel confident in your health and well-being.
- Retirement: We offer pension schemes to help you plan for and secure your future.
- Life Assurance: Life assurance is available to give you peace of mind and protect your loved ones in case of the unexpected.
- Parental Leave: We offer competitive parental leave schemes to ensure you are spending as much quality time with your new bundle of joy as possible.
We are also remote-first as an organisation, offering flexibility for you to work where you need to be most productive. In addition to the above, you will discover that we have a range of secondary perks (such as the cycle-to-work scheme and employee discounts) depending on your location, to help you thrive at Zepz!
Why choose Zepz?
- Our team of over 1,000 employees is fully distributed across the world. We are working from coffee shops, homes, and co-working spaces — making us one of the larger fully distributed growth-stage startups in the world but we also offer workspace in our talent cluster locations - spaces we can meet, collaborate and connect.
- We are proud parents, community organizers, farmers, band members, yoga teachers, YouTube influencers, former Olympians, and serial entrepreneurs.
- We collectively speak over twenty languages, including Akuapem, Amharic, Bengali, Ewe, Fante, Ga, Igbo, Kalenjin, Luganda, Oromo, Somali, Swahili, Wolof, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Irish, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish and Swedish.
- At Zepz, embodying our commitments binds us together. We are collectively passionate about striving to achieve our vision and purpose - to continue to provide the best service to our users.
Ready to Apply?
Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis. If interested, please submit your resume along with a cover letter (optional), highlighting why your experience demonstrates you meet the requirements of the role. Please also indicate the countries in which you have work authorization.
Confidence can sometimes hold us back from applying for a job. But we'll let you in on a secret: there's no such thing as a 'perfect' candidate. Zepz is a place where everyone can thrive.
So however you identify and whatever background you bring with you, and if at all you might need any form of support to make the process as comfortable as possible, please let us know and give us a shot by applying. We want you to be excited to wake up to make an impact every day.
What We Do
Zepz is powering two leading global payments brands: WorldRemit and Sendwave. We represent brands that disrupted an industry previously dominated by offline legacy players by taking international money transfers online - making global digital payments fairer, faster, and more flexible. Our brands currently send from 50 to 130 countries, operate in more than 5,000 money transfer corridors worldwide and employ over 1,400 people globally. Zepz is a remote-first employer, with team members located across six continents.
On the sending side our brands are 100% digital (cashless), increasing convenience and enhancing security. For those receiving money, our brands offer a wide range of options including bank deposit, cash collection, mobile airtime top-up and mobile money.
www.zepzpay.com
