Nucleus Financial
Banking Operations Analyst
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Job Description
Role can be based in Edinburgh or Glasgow
We're looking for a detail-oriented and proactive Banking Operations Analyst to join our team. This role is ideal for someone with banking operations experience who enjoys working in a fast-paced environment and has a passion for accuracy.
Working across a variety of banking platforms and systems, you'll play a key role in ensuring the smooth operation and control of reconciliations, reporting, and operational processes.
Key Responsibilities
- Controlling and maintaining bank ledgers.
- Reviewing and processing client money payments accurately and in line with established controls.
- Performing daily, weekly, and monthly bank reconciliations.
- Completing prefund reconciliations and investigating any discrepancies.
- Producing accurate cash reporting and supporting liquidity management activities.
- Managing and ensuring regular operational tasks are completed accurately, on time, and in accordance with internal policies and procedures.
- Monitoring and maintaining robust systems and controls to minimise operational risk.
- Investigating and resolving reconciliation breaks and exceptions.
- Supporting audit, compliance, and regulatory requirements.
- Working collaboratively across Finance teams to improve processes and controls.
- Contributing to a culture of continuous improvement, identifying opportunities to enhance efficiency and effectiveness.
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About You
Essential Skills & Experience
- Previous experience within Banking Operations, or a similar financial services environment.
- Experience performing bank reconciliations and managing financial controls.
- Advanced Microsoft Excel skills, including formulas, lookups, and data analysis.
- Excellent attention to detail and a high degree of accuracy.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and meet deadlines.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
Desirable
- Knowledge and experience across a range of banking platforms, payment systems, and financial applications.
- Experience with client money processes and regulatory requirements.
- Experience supporting process improvement initiatives and operational change.
A little about us
We’re the Nucleus Financial Platforms group and we help make retirement more rewarding. People come first - whether it’s our colleagues, or the advisers and customers we support, we know that working in partnership and collaboration leads to the best outcomes. Together, we’ve shaped the platform to how it is today. We work hard, and we celebrate hard too.
Our ambition is to create a platform with a difference, putting the customer centre stage meant tearing up the rule book and starting from scratch. We’ve come a long way since then, but our mission remains just as focused. That’s why our culture, values, and social responsibility are things we keep at the top of our agenda – because we know they matter and have a big impact.
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Our culture is one of the many things that sets us apart from the pack. We want to have an environment where our people feel that they can make a real difference, know they’ll be rewarded for their efforts and more importantly, enjoy themselves at work.
Inclusion and diversity at Nucleus
As with most things in life, who cares, wins. We really care about inclusion. For us it’s not a tick box exercise; inclusion and diversity are embedded in our culture and everything we do. It’s a commercial imperative. It isn’t about being PC. It’s about being future-relevant and durable. We owe it to ourselves and the industry to ensure we are playing our part in creating a fair, balanced and transparent financial services sector.
More diversity means broader experience, a wider set of perspectives and a better collective ability to problem-solve. And it means being more representative of customer groups, which supports areas such as product development.
At Nucleus, we offer a generous blend of benefits for the things that really matter to our people, including a non-contributory pension, bonus, enhanced parental leave, paid time off for emergencies, health and wellbeing initiatives and flexible working options.
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