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:

• Reconciliation and Reporting: Reconcile transactions between Mastercard®, Visa, banks, credit unions, and Optimus. Prepare daily, weekly, and monthly financial reports, ensuring accuracy and compliance with financial processes.

• Settlement and Payments: Manage settlement processing within the card payments system and oversee payments and liquidity management for daily settlements.

• Data Management: Work with data source providers and technology teams to ensure data accuracy. Maintain and verify databases, and support automation of manual processes.

• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Collaborate with Compliance, Accounting, Business, and Product teams to support customer needs and ensure adherence to international regulations. Advise development teams on financial impacts related to platform changes.

• Financial Risk and Documentation: Oversee financial risk assessment processes and create internal documentation on FinOps procedures. Research and propose new approaches, tools, and best practices.

• Support and Confidentiality: Support the team via on-call schedule rotation and maintain confidentiality of financial information.

• Support month-end close activities: including preparing journal entries and reconciling various balance sheet and income statement accounts, as well as handling other accounting ad hoc requests.

Required qualifications:

• Master’s or Bachelor’s degree in relevant fields.

• 1-3 years of experience in economic, management, accounting, or administrative roles, 3-5 years would be preferable;

• Strong analytical and technical skills with proficiency in Microsoft Excel/GoogleSheets; familiarity with SQL, Python, JavaScript, or other coding languages is a plus.

• Fluent in English; additional language skills are advantageous.

• Availability for hybrid work regime and willingness to travel (once every quarter, to London UK, for in-person meetings with the rest of the team).

Bonus if you have:

• Prior experience working at a startup in FinTech/Crypto

• Card Payments experience

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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