FinOps Analyst

About Uphold

The Web3 economy will redefine how financial value is held and transacted - with much activity shifting towards blockchain networks and digital assets. Founded in 2013, Uphold is a Web3 financial platform that supports almost 300 digital assets and acts as a Regulated Gateway to the Web3 economy. Featuring integrations with 26 blockchain networks and a robust trading engine connected to 30 underlying venues, the platform allows users to trade ‘Anything-to-Anything’ while enjoying keen pricing and deep liquidity. Uphold has completed more than 120 million transactions worth $40 billion from 10 million customers in over 150 countries.Both people and companies need to access this exciting Web3 world, but it can be technically demanding and time-consuming.

Uphold strips away the complexity and lack of transparency to open up Web3 finance for everyone.To learn more about Uphold, please visit https://uphold.com

The opportunity:

As a FinOps Analyst, you will be integral to managing and optimizing financial operations for our card payment solutions. Your role will involve reconciliation, settlement processing, and financial reporting, as well as collaborating with cross-functional teams to enhance financial processes and ensure accuracy. You will focused on supporting Optimus UK, Limited, an Uphold company providing fast and seamless implementation of Visa and Mastercard®-backed card programs, payment solutions, and virtual accounts, operating as a white-label card solution provider.

What you'll be doing primarily:

• Oversee and execute main procedures to complete all daily, weekly and monthly financial close activities and reporting/monitoring models.

• Ensure timely response to customers' and cross-department inquiries, troubleshoot issues that arise from them.

• Work with data source providers and technology teams to ensure that key decision data is accurate and financial processes are adjusted accordingly.

• Reconcile big data-sets and aid in the booking and correcting procedures.

• Develop an understanding of how our business and tools work, how this is reflected in our data and work with the team to assess and improve its quality.

• Work closely with Engineering and Product to automate manual processes, and ensure compliance with international regulations (card schemes, safeguarding, banking frameworks).

• Learn, analyze and expand our repository of processes and standard operating procedures to optimize the team's efficiency.

• Research and propose new approaches to work, new tools, and new best practices.

Required qualifications:

• Solid understanding of accounting and financial reporting/principles.

• Problem-solving, improving processes with an action-driven approach.

• Strong communication, interpersonal and presentation skills both written and verbal.

• Strong work ethic, promoting empathy and accountability.

• Strong analytical and technical skills with proficiency in Microsoft Excel;

• 1-4 Years of relevant experience.

• Fluent written and oral English skills.

Bonus if you have:

• Experience in a finance role with an understanding of finance operations.

• In-depth knowledge of banking frameworks and payment methods.

• Familiarity with SQL, Python, JavaScript, or other coding languages is a plus.

• Prior experience at a fast-paced technology start-up/scale-up.

• Fluency in cryptocurrencies or other digital assets as they are core to our business.

What we have to offer you:

• A fun and collaborative work environment in a company that continues to grow, driven by extraordinary and passionate people that keep us innovating and challenging each day

• Competitive salary and benefits

• An international team in a cutting edge field

• A flexible and enthusiastic hybrid work environment

• Growth and career opportunities and the chance to be proactive and creative

• Open and transparent culture - we get together on a regular basis to share updates, strategic plans, and engage with each other informally over (virtual) drinks

• Interesting events that keep you connected with the team and celebrate our success

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