Reconciliation Specialist (GTP) Job at MFS Africa

MFS Africa is the leading digital payments platform in Africa, enabling low-cost payments across the continent. The company works in close partnership with mobile network operators and financial institutions to bring simple and relevant payment services to African consumers and businesses. MFS Africa connects over 320 million mobile money users across Africa through its platform, which enables cross-border payment for mobile money networks, banks, money transfer operators, and large corporates.

As a fintech company, we strive towards elegance and simplicity in everything we do. Our mission is to make borders matter less, and our values are to simplify, care, and be revolutionary. We pride ourselves on world-class operations and a distributed team. Our offices include Abidjan, Accra, Johannesburg, Kampala, Lagos, London, Nairobi, and Port-Louis, and many employees work remotely from locations where we do not have offices. We are regulated by the FSC in Mauritius, BoG in Ghana, BoT in Tanzania, and FCA in the UK.

The MFS Africa team has doubled in the past year and continues to grow rapidly. Our people are talented, curious, and the reason our company does exceptional things. Excellence in nurturing our people and their passions is foundational to our success as a business.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Position: Reconciliation Specialist (GTP)

Job Location: Lagos, Nigeria
Employment Type: Permanent
Department: OPS Recons & Settlement

The role

• This role resides within the Global Technology Partners (GTP) business unit, which is based in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
• Applicants from any other location are welcome to apply, with the understanding that operations happen within the CST / GMT-6 time zone.

Role Duties and Responsibilities

• Perform duties as assigned by management in addition to, but not limited to the following duties.
• Prepare bank reconciliation reports each day for assigned banks.
• Retrieve Visa settlement reports, and save to appropriate bank folder.
• Reconcile assigned banks. Provide Tier I team any cardholder adjustments for processing.
• Reconcile Base II reports for assigned banks.
• Research any out of balances found in reconciliation process. Determine if card adjustment is needed,
  or if it is cutover item.
• Extract VSS Reports and print for Tier I team members.
• Save GTP generated reports to appropriate bank folder.
• Reconcile Daily Activity Reports for assigned banks.
• Transfer completed reconciliation reports, Visa reports, and GTP generated reports to banks.
• Send completed bank reconciliation reports to management for review.
• Assist with daily Visa Fee data entry.
• Update negative card reports as required by management.
• General housekeeping and other duties to maintain a secure, safe and professional work environment.

Skills and Education / Qualifications

• Minimum of High School Diploma or completion of General Education Development
• Bachelor's Degree in Finance / Accounting / Commerce preferable.
• Advanced Excel skills are a priority for this role
• SQL skills would be preferable for the role. 

Experience:

• 1 - 3 years of experience in finance, financial operations, or banking industry

Why Work For Us

• We are the cutting edge of fintech in Africa
• Ranked by Fast Company as the Second Most Innovative Company in Africa
• We operate a flexible remote-working and unlimited leave policy
• Attractive package including flexible benefits and competitive remuneration
• Diverse, inclusive, gender-balanced company culture representing >28 nationalities and speaking >20 languages
• Massive growth potential
• We solve relevant problems for Africa and the world to create access for the millions of users who also believe in what we do