Job Description:

Reconciliation and Reporting Analyst

London/Hybrid

Contract to March 2027

Day rate from £350 via Umbrella Company DOE

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My client is one of the largest financial institutions headquartered in Japan, with an established presence across all consumer and corporate banking businesses. Through its subsidiaries and affiliates, they offer a diverse range of financial services, including commercial banking, leasing, securities, credit card, consumer finance and other services.

They are seeking a Reconciliation and Reporting Analyst to join the team on a contract to the end of the March 2027. The role is hybrid working being in the office 2-3 days a week with the remainder of time working from home. It would be expected that you would be fully office based for the first couple of weeks as you learn the role. Standard office hours Monday to Friday with the occasional out of hours requirement in line with business needs.

Based in the Limit Control side of the EDLC team you will ensure all limits across the bank are maintained and updated along with any excesses that occur on a daily basis. This will be Derivative limits and also helping to maintain their Trade Finance limits on the GGS system and working closely with other Operations Administration Departments to ensure all systems are correct and as per Credit Approvals.

Purpose of Job

• Proactively provide support to Front Office departments for efficient execution of limit transactions across all bank systems. These are several different limits including Derivative, Money Market and Loan products.
• Responsibility for the accurate reporting of limit excesses across all EMEA Front Office Departments, ensuring excesses are escalated and followed through to resolution.
• Provide accurate reconciliations across a multitude of systems to ensure limits and transactions adhere to credit approved applications and credit approved conditions.
• Input limits to booking systems in relation to Foreign Exchange, Money Market and Overdraft products.
• Regularly review and maintain internal procedures
• Ability to multi-task and change priorities at short notice whilst continuing to supply quality service.
• Promote a control culture to ensure the Section accurately captures all transactions in the Banks core processing systems
• Constructively challenge and influence change to enhance business performance for the Section and Department
• Undertakes the role to support the collection and registration of covenant information in the Deal Document Tracking (DDT) system as defined in facility documentation, to include Compliance/Margin Certificates, Financial Statements, Forecasts, and Budgets.
• Manage and circulate overdue reporting to front office and team heads.
• Reconciliation between all systems to ensure Credit Approvals are replicated in each system
• Ensure all daily excesses are investigated and escalated in a timely manner
• Prepare and Distribute reports relating to limit set up and usage
• Support project work where required, including necessary system testing.

About you

• Candidate must be an excellent team player with great communication skills to be able to liaise with all members of EDLC and wider departments.
• They must be well organised and self-motivated with strong interpersonal skills.
• Ability to bring a solution-based approach to issues, working with the team to move transactions forward.
• Demonstrate a proactive attitude and take the initiative to provide high quality levels of service to both our internal and external customers
• Eager to learn and be able to operate in a team that covers a wide variety of tasks where each area can be busy at different times.
• The ability to multi task and prioritise workloads efficiently to ensure SLA's are met and all required work is completed to a high standard.

Experience & Skills

• A Level educated (or equivalent), with some exposure or interest in finance, banking, or business operations.
• Strong willingness to learn and quickly develop knowledge across banking products, including derivatives, FX, and trade finance.
• Highly organised with the ability to prioritise workloads and manage multiple tasks effectively, particularly during busy reporting periods.
• Demonstrates a proactive, "can-do" attitude with a strong work ethic and willingness to take initiative in a fast-paced environment.
• Comfortable performing high volumes of reconciliations, data checks, and reporting tasks with strong attention to detail and accuracy.
• Good analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to identify discrepancies, investigate issues, and support timely resolution.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively across teams and build relationships with stakeholders.
• Confident using Excel and ideally exposure to Power BI or similar reporting tools.

Candidates must show evidence of the above in their CV to be considered.

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