Reconciliation Specialist

JOB DESCRIPTION

Location: Hybrid | Mississauga

Duration: 4 months 

Our client, a leading financial institution in Mississauga, is looking for a Reconciliation Specialist to be responsible for the preparation of reconciliations and attestations per prescribed Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) while applying solid knowledge of the operations, its procedures and systems to the reconciliations. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to work with one of the Top 5 Banks in Canada.

Typical Day in role:

  • Ensure true breaks are identified, investigated/reported, and items that represent a potential loss are escalated immediately
  • Support all questions about in-house reconciliations and support investigations for outages for outsourced reconciliations
  • Use in-house and online tools to do first-level investigation on outages to speed up resolution
  • Display good judgment and decision-making skills in dealing with breaks and reporting
  • Work with various stakeholders relating to various reconciliation functions
  • Do peer reviews on other reconciliations prepared by the team
  • Lead the charge on designing new reconciliations and amending existing reconciliations where needed
  • Use 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
  • Create monthly and ad hoc statistical reporting
  • Posting journal entries where necessary
  • Demonstrate flexibility to assume ad hoc work outside of the general reconciliation process

Must-Have Skills:

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

Nice-To-Have Skills:

  • Knowledge of how to use Tableau
  • Knowledge of Insurance products/operations, familiar with insurance accounting, together with willingness and interest to develop that knowledge 

Soft Skills Required:

  • Willingness to collaborate and build strong relationships across business functions
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills. Able to collaborate and build strong relationships with multiple stakeholders
  • Eagerness to investigate and learn. Must be able to take initiative and challenge the status quo

Education:

  • Graduate or post-graduate or professional designations such as. MBA, CA, CFA.

Finance professional is committed to creating an inclusive environment where all team members and clients feel like they belong. We seek applicants with a wide range of abilities and we provide an accessible candidate experience. We advocate for you and welcome anyone regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, physical or mental disability, or age.