Senior Accountant - Banking

Yellow Card is the largest and first licensed stablecoin-based infrastructure provider, operating in 20 African countries and the emerging markets. Our mission is to empower businesses of all sizes, making it easier for them to make international payments, protect their financial assets, manage their treasury function, and access hard currency liquidity.

We are creating "financial infrastructure that works", disrupting the financial services industry by offering innovative solutions designed to meet the distinct needs of - and real-world challenges faced on a daily basis by - our customers. Leveraging the power of stablecoins pegged 1:1 to the U.S. dollar (e.g., USDC, USDT, and PYUSD), we deliver our innovative solutions through our commercial trading function, our B2B products (i.e., our Payments API and "widget"), and our retail and small business platform.

This role is significant because of the sensitivity of information being dealt with as well as the level of attention to detail required for this role. The reconciliation of Bank accounts and facilitation of payments is a part of the treasury function; and is one that is performed to ensure the company's financial health. This is done by ensuring the completion of fast and accurate payments for the Treasury and Commercial teams. The Treasury Accountant is responsible for providing efficient and effective high-quality banking and payment services, which requires you to carefully review each transaction to ensure that it meets all the company's requirements. This requires excellent attention to detail. It also requires continued communication with our partners as well as following up on outstanding, pending, or disputed transactions. This exciting and challenging position involves extensive collaboration with the Commercial and Finance teams as well as other key stakeholders in the business.

Duties include, but not limited to

• Download bank statements from various Group banking portals.
• Reconciliation of Bank statements.
• Uploading bank statements to ERP.
• Posting of all journals and inter-company journals on the ERP.
• Matching bank transactions to underlying bills, receivable and payable accounts in the accounting system.
• Responding to all queries relating to banks.
• Reconciling the payment partners accounts and GLs.
• Adding new bank and customer accounts to ERP.
• Continuous maintenance and improvement of templates and standard operating procedures.

• Big 4 audit or advisory experience is mandatory
• Must have worked with reporting assets held on behalf of clients.
• 3+ years of experience in payments review and processing, with good attention to detail.
• 3+ years of experience in basic accounting and allocation of GL codes.
• 3+ years of experience working with foreign currencies.
• Experience with Oracle's NetSuite (preferable).
• Understanding of processing payments in local and foreign currencies.
• Excellent working knowledge of Google Sheets and MS Excel.
• Excellent Excel and analysis skills.
• Basic knowledge and understanding of the workings of virtual assets.
• Preferably available immediately.

• Impactful and Purposeful Work: You will be helping to drive financial inclusion across Africa.
• Remote-First Flexibility: We embrace a fully remote work environment.
• Global & Diverse Team: You will have the opportunity to work with talented professionals from 25+ countries across the world, in a multicultural and collaborative environment.
• Learning & Development: Access to resources, support, and autonomy to grow professionally.
• Mental Health Support Services: Your mental well-being matters to us.
• Compensation & Benefits: We offer competitive compensation and meaningful health coverage, and all full-time employees are participants in our stock option plan.

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