Operations Analyst (Banking)

About Wahed:

We have a passion to reduce financial inequality and exclusion by building world leading financial products and services aimed at giving access to all. We are a New York headquartered Financial Technology (FinTech) company focused on serving values-based (shariah compliant) digital financial services to retail clients globally, starting with wealth management. We have an impressive global team aligned with this purpose and are looking for trail blazers in their fields that will take our customer delivery to new levels. We can promise you a digital first and truly international culture, as well as a fascinating immersion into the world of FinTech and Islamic finance.

• Reconciliation of books of accounts of investments and custodian banks.
• Managing bank/cash reconciliations on daily basis and resolve discrepancy, if any.
• Reporting discrepancies and cash balances.
• Analysing & record-keeping of the bank transactions on a daily basis.
• Execution of banking transactions and matching of bank deposits.
• Working on position reconciliation as per SLA.
• Preparation of budgets, deliver end-of-day P&L and pricing statements to management.
• Monitoring and analysing the Cash Flow and conducting due diligence.
• Identify and facilitate issue resolutions in a timely manner and escalate where applicable.
• Liaise with internal teams, custodian, banks, locally and globally, to address bank transaction and trade related enquiries and issues.
• Reconcile, monitor and post corporate actions.
• Prepare weekly and month-end reports.
• Analysing & auditing of bank accounts.
• Assisting and reviewing of draft financial statements.
• Assisting with Audit queries.
• Maintain integrity and confidentiality of all bank/trade related data.
• Trade accounting with custodians of international markets (US, LSE & Luxembourg markets).

• Minimum 3 years’ experience in banking/middle office.

• Knowledge of Accounting entries & various treatment.
• Exceptional attention to detail and strong organizational skills.
• Proficiency in MS Office Excel, Word, PowerPoint.
• Ability to be flexible and organized.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Team player with the ability to work with multiple departments.