Finance / Transactional Data Analyst
Role Overview:
As a key member of our team, you will analyse transactional and treasury data to support our Operational, Safeguarding, and Finance teams. Working closely with stakeholders and cross-functional teams, you will translate business requirements into scalable, efficient solutions that drive impact.
Key Responsibilities:
• Process Documentation & Controls: Map, document, and implement controls for all banking and card data flows.
• Transactional Analysis & Reporting: Extract and analyse banking and card transactions, creating daily reports and tracking timing discrepancies between platform transactions and banking statements. Identify process inefficiencies and recommend improvements.
• Data Reporting & Maintenance: Develop and maintain reports to support Finance, Treasury, and Safeguarding functions.
• Data Cleaning & Validation: Process and validate large data sets to ensure accuracy and consistency.
• Data Management: Gather, manage, and analyse large data sets within the Railsr platform. Work closely with Banking and Cards Tech teams to ensure data completeness.
• Fraud & Anomaly Detection: Analyse banking and card transactions to identify unusual trends and anomalies, presenting insights through comprehensive reports and dashboards.
Key Skills
• Eye for forensic financial investigations and reconciliations.
• Advanced Excel, and/or data visualization tools.
• Hands-on experience tracking the movement of funds, from start to finish.
• Familiarity with financial processes like settlement cycles, safeguarding, and reconciliation for major payment networks.
• Knowledge of UK payment systems and real-time transactional data streams.
• Bonus: SQL or Python
