Finance Transaction Analyst
LendInvest Glasgow City, Scotland, United Kingdom
Financial Services · 51-200 employees
About the role
The role involves processing day-to-day financial transactions via various payment systems and ensuring accurate postings to the general ledger. You will also support reconciliation analysts with cash at bank investigations and assist the financial reporting team with statutory tasks.
What they look for
Requirements
Candidates should have strong Excel skills and excellent attention to detail, with the ability to work in a high-pressure environment. A finance-related degree and awareness of double-entry accounting are considered desirable qualifications.
Benefits
Full description
• LendInvest is the UK’s leading FinTech platform for property finance. Over the past 18 years, we have grown from just our two founders to a team of over 200 working to make property finance simple for everyone.
A workplace culture built around trying new things, getting things done, and having fun while we do it has helped us lend more than £9 billion of mortgages, put thousands of new or improved homes into the UK housing market, and successfully launch on the London Stock Exchange. We have big plans to continue growing the business, our products, our technology, and our people.
We operate a hybrid working policy across our business to ensure we offer flexibility that is balanced with in-person collaboration. Our teams spend three days per week in the office and two days working remotely.
Please note we are unable to provide sponsorship for this role.
About your work
Finance Operations sits at the heart of the LendInvest business, dealing with both loan originators and funding providers. It provides information, analysis, planning and support on cash flow, risk management and performance reporting for the various funding mechanisms in place. As a newly established function it is growing quickly and delivering real value to the wider business. Processes are evolving and technology is being sourced and implemented to drive operational efficiencies.
This role will be part of the Finance Transactions Team under our Finance Operations function, where you will play a key role in the processing day-to-day transactions via several different payment systems and creating the corresponding postings to the general ledger.
Key Responsibilities
- Timely and accurate processing of financial transactions in accordance with SLAs, which may include high volume and large values
- Ensuring adherence with company policies, regulatory requirements, including the prevention of Financial Crime and Fraud
- Supporting Reconciliation Analysts with their investigations of cash at bank breaks
- Ad hoc support to the rest of the finance operations team as required, including project activity
- Support to the financial reporting team with ad-hoc reporting tasks and statutory work (non-technical)
About you
- Excellent attention to detail
- Strong Excel skills (pivot tables, range of formulae including lookups, sumifs and IF)
- Comfortable working in a high pressure and a challenging environment
Desirable:
- Background in a transaction, execution or settlement department within financial services
- Experience working with processing transactions through an ERP system (such as Oracle NetSuite) and directly in the bank where ad hoc payments and transfers are sometimes required.
- Finance related degree
- Awareness of double-entry accounting
- Experience working in a fast-paced environment
Benefits & perks
- 💰 Competitive salary + company bonus scheme
- 🏠 Hybrid working policy
- 🏖️ 25 days holiday (increasing with the length of service)
- 🏥 Private healthcare
- 🍼 Enhanced parental leave
- 💸 Matched pension contributions up to 4%
- 🏥 Critical illness cover
- 🧠 Employee Assistance Programme & Mental Health support
- 🛟 Life assurance
- 📈 Regular performance reviews to promote a culture of growth and development
- 🏆 Leadership training for managers
- 🤝 Give as you earn scheme for charitable donations
- 🎓 Support for attending conferences and professional learning & development
- 🤑 Discounts via Perkbox
- 🚲 Cycle to work scheme
- 🍼 YellowNest Childcare
- 🔌 Electric car loan scheme
- 🥳 Monthly socials & annual offsite
Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging at LendInvest
At LI we believe in bringing your whole selves to work, we are committed to a culture of belonging where individuals can form a genuine community. We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer and are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives and skills.
We are happy to discuss and implement reasonable adjustments to support candidates throughout the recruitment process.