Financial Analyst (6 Months Fixed Term) - Sales Compensation - Peterborough, UK

As a Financial Analyst (6 months FTC) in our Peterborough, UK office, you will play a key role supporting the FP&A Senior Manager in helping to create a methodical approach for optimizing operational business processes to enhance efficiency but also perform daily tasks according to pre-established guidelines to ensure the invoicing and billing reflects the correct transactions.

You will be responsible for:

• Calculating sales compensation commissions and hedging adjustments.
• Analyzing accounts and specialized reports, investigating discrepancies, validating calculations against compensation plan rules and providing decision-making insights
• Carrying out monthly accruals, reconciliations
• Participating in process improvement projects and ensuring effective accounting operations and compliance with internal controls, policies, and regulations
• Prepare reports and presentations - regularly prepare and generate reporting and presentations for ad hoc internal reviews
• Dashboard/ MI maintenance and management - wrangle and retrieve large data sets for consolidation
• Process development and approach - assist the Senior Manager to collaborate with other key stakeholders and develop standardized team processes to develop and define "how we work"

You should apply if you have:

• Strong analytical skills.
• 4-5 years of experience in accounting / FP&A.
• Advanced proficiency in MS Excel (including modeling, advanced formulas, pivot tables, macros etc.)
• Experience in working on sales compensation calculations and hedging adjustments would be an advantage.
• Good communication and consultation skills, both written and verbal in English.
• Familiarity with the accounting standards and a degree in Business Management/ Finance / Accounting or a related
• Change Management experience or experience of successfully being part of a changing environment.
• An advantage, if you have hands-on proficiency in one or more of the following business intelligence, visualization, and advanced analytics tools (e.g. CaptivateIQ, Power BI, Tableau, Alteryx, Snowflake, or other similar systems.)
• Experience in the EU/Global payments industry would be an advantage.
• Ability to work independently, rigorous, organized and disciplined
• Excels in team environment with the ability to collaborate and liaise with geographically distributed teams
• Self-starter with 'can-do' attitude, a service mindset, and proactive in responding to requests
• Professional, detail-oriented, and organized, with outstanding follow-up abilities
• Enthusiastic, with a strong desire to succeed

About Convera

Convera is the largest non-bank B2B cross-border payments company in the world. Formerly Western Union Business Solutions, we leverage decades of industry expertise and technology-led payment solutions to deliver smarter money movements to our customers - helping them capture more value with every transaction. Convera serves more than 30,000 customers ranging from small business owners to enterprise treasurers to educational institutions to financial institutions to law firms to NGOs.

Our teams care deeply about the value we bring to our customers, which makes Convera a rewarding place to work. This is an exciting time for our organization as we build our team with growth-minded, result-oriented people who are looking to move fast in an innovative environment.

As a truly global company with employees in over 20 countries, we are passionate about diversity; we seek and celebrate people from different backgrounds, lifestyles, and unique points of view. We want to work with the best people and ensure we foster a culture of inclusion and belonging.

We offer an abundance of competitive perks and benefits including:

• Market competitive monthly gross salary & the opportunity to earn an annual bonus
  • Great career growth and development opportunities in a global organization
  • A flexible approach to work / hybrid working
  • Generous insurance (health, disability, life) and retirement programs
  • Paid holidays, time-off and leave policies for life events (maternity, paternity, adoption)
  • Paid time off for volunteering (5 days / year)

There are plenty of amazing opportunities at Convera for talented, creative problem solvers who never settle for good enough and are looking to transform Business to Business payments.

Apply now!

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