Block
Senior Reconciliation & Reporting Analyst
Bay Area, CA, United States of America · Senior
Sponsorship not specified$135k-$203kDetected 23 hours ago
PythonSwiftRailsSQLBigQuerySnowflakeData AnalysisData EngineeringData VisualizationComplianceFinancial AnalysisAccountingExcelCommunicationMentoringFinancial ReportingInternal Audit
About the role
- Reconciliation and financial reporting are essential to running a payments business, and given our transaction volume, this role has direct, measurable impact on financial accuracy and trust.
- Our mantra: all funds in the right place, at the right time, for the right purpose.
- Serve as the subject matter expert on settlement, funding, and money-movement flows; field questions on transaction lifecycles, data models, and the reconciliation tech stack from stakeholders and leadership.
Responsibilities
- The blocks that form our foundational teams - People, Finance, Counsel, Hardware, Information Security, Platform Infrastructure Engineering, and more - provide support and guidance at the corporate level.
- They work across business groups and around the globe, spanning time zones and disciplines to develop inclusive People policies, forecast finances, give legal counsel, safeguard systems, nurture new initiatives, and more.
- Every challenge creates possibilities, and we need different perspectives to see them all.
- As a Senior Analyst on the team, you will independently own reconciliation and reporting workstreams end to end.
- You will translate ambiguous reconciliation and reporting needs into concrete metrics, controls, and automated solutions, drive discrepancies to root cause and resolution, and directly influence the team's roadmap and the priorities of our finance, accounting, and engineering partners.
- Independently prioritize, design, develop, and deploy end-to-end reconciliation and reporting solutions: matching logic, break dashboards, exception queues, settlement summaries, and standardized journals that feed downstream accounting, audit, and regulatory processes.
- empowering you to do the best work of your career while building the life you want.
- Block, Inc. (NYSE: XYZ) builds technology to increase access to the global economy.
Requirements
- 5+ years of related experience in reconciliation, settlement, payment operations, accounting, or finance analytics with a Bachelor's degree (Finance, Accounting, Economics, a quantitative field, or similar)
- or 3+ years with a Master's degree
- Strong knowledge of accounting principles, double-entry concepts, and the mechanics of money movement, with the judgment to question the correctness and completeness of financial data.
- Advanced Excel proficiency (complex formulas, pivot tables) and experience with reconciliation tooling and banking portals.
- Experience with cloud data warehouses (e.g., Snowflake, BigQuery) and BI platforms (e.g., Looker, Tableau), including building governed reporting layers with SLAs.
Skills
- Track record of proactively identifying and delivering process improvements and automation in a deadline-driven, high-accuracy environment.
- Strong familiarity with funds-transfer processes and rails (ACH, wire,
- Preferred Experience
- Scripting skills (Python or similar) for data analysis and process automation.
- Exposure to interchange and fee/cost reconciliation, revenue-leakage detection, and tax or regulatory reporting regimes.
- Experience supporting audits, internal controls, or SOX-adjacent processes, and mentoring junior analysts.
- Curiosity about payments products and financial markets.
Compensation
- $135,200 - $202,800 USD
- $125,800 - $188,600 USD
- $119,000 - $178,400 USD
- $108,200 - $162,200 USD
Benefits
- Check out our other benefits at Block.
- Remote work, medical insurance, flexible time off, retirement savings plans, and modern family planning are just some of our offering.
Company info
- the platform responsible for reconciling money, tracing the end-to-end flow of funds, and meeting our tax and regulatory reporting obligations to merchants, customers, and authorities worldwide.
Visa & Work Authorization
- You will be the subject matter expert who ensures the numbers tie out: reconciling card-network settlement and report files (Visa, Mastercard, and equivalents), along with data from acquirers, processors, and banks, against our internal pay
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