Vallum Associates
Settlements Analyst
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Settlements Analyst
Location: London, UK (4 days onsite)
Type: Permanent
Role Overview
As a Financial Operations Analyst, you will be accountable for supporting the Head of Settlements in ensuring a timely, accurate, and complete end-to-end settlements process for all London Trading Desks within the Oil Group. You will support the team to ensure all settlement targets and KPI’s are met.
Key Responsibilities
- Completion of the day-to-day workload as prescribed by your manager.
- Ensuring resolution of any day-to-day operational issues and escalating where appropriate.
- Building relationships both internally and externally to create and support business information flow.
- Complete the end-to-end invoicing process, including:
- Physical Receivable Invoice Process: Create, check, and dispatch receivable invoices across physical trades and secondary costs.
- Physical Payable Invoice Process: Receive, validate, and process payable invoices across physical trades and secondary costs.
- Brokerage Payable Invoice Process: Receive, validate, and process broker statements.
- Errors and Invoice Amendment: Problem-solve invoice errors and amendments with support from other functions.
- Monitor receivables, including cash application and debt management.
- Monitor intercompany balances and invoicing processes.
- Liaise with internal desks/teams, particularly operations and risk management, on settlement disputes.
- Monitor and resolve queries from external parties, escalating where required.
- Resolve settlement issues to improve the balance sheet position and cash conversion cycle.
- Follow team processes to ensure all counterparty, billing, and settlement information is in line with company policy.
- Support and review regular updates of internal processes within the FinOps area.
- Proactively contribute to continuous improvement initiatives within Finance Operations.
- Meet KPI’s and performance targets allocated to your area.
- Provide review and commentary to the team on reporting and analytics, such as month-end open items reporting.
- Support the manager with periodic and ad hoc management reporting.
- Perform ad hoc duties as required.
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- Experience of working in settlements, ideally within a global commodities/energy company (essential).
- Knowledge of trading.
- Knowledge of physical commodities (essential).
- Knowledge of straight-through processing from trading to accounting (desirable).
- Focus on operational improvement.
- Ability to work well under pressure.
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