Financial Operations Analyst

About Blenheim Chalcot
Blenheim Chalcot is one of the leading venture builders in the world. We have been building exciting and disruptive businesses for over 26 years across sectors including FinTech, EdTech, GovTech, Media, Sport, Charity and more. These companies are all GenAI enabled and are some of the most innovative companies in the UK and increasingly around the world.

The BC team in India has been instrumental to the growth and success of Blenheim Chalcot. Established in 2014, Blenheim Chalcot India serves as a pivotal launchpad for those aiming to make a difference in the realm of innovation and entrepreneurship.

Blenheim Chalcot India is driven by a mission to empower visionaries to lead, innovate, and build disruptive solutions. We support our diverse portfolio of ventures and create impactful solutions that shape global trends. We provide a range of services to help new business get off the ground, including technology, growth (marketing and sales), talent, HR, finance, legal and tax, plus so much more!

One of our FinTech venture, Salary Finance, is scaling fast and we’re looking to hire high energy, motivated and curious talent to support them on that journey!

About Salary Finance

Salary Finance is one of the UK’s fastest growing free employee benefits.

Who we are:

Salary Finance has grown from an idea in 2015 to a breakthrough FinTech platform and movement today. We support a community of 4M employees across 575 clients (inc 20% of the FTSE 100) in the UK and US, and provide a suite of financial employee benefits, to help employees improve their financial health and happiness. Our platform provides salary-linked savings, loans, pay advances, insurance and financial education. We are a company with 200 brilliant and passionate colleagues in 3 countries and to have the backing of great investors (Blenheim Chalcot, Legal & General, Experian, Goldman Sachs, Royal London) with £100M in equity and £500M in debt funding raised to-date.

Our social mission is deeply intertwined with our expertise in financial technology. All of the benefits we offer—simple savings, early access to earned pay, affordable loans, and insurance—are fully accessible via our custom-built digital platform. This allows us to deliver the simplest, quickest, and most secure customer journeys possible.

We have received 70+ recognitions for our products and societal contributions. Among them, we are particularly proud to have been recognized as ‘Responsible Business of the Year’ by The Prince’s Responsible Business Network (BITC), in addition to being awarded ‘Best Financial Wellbeing Provider’, ‘Ethical Financial Services Provider of the Year’ and ‘Consumer Champion of the Year’ in 2020 alone.

The Role

We're looking for a Financial Operations Analyst with analytical and problem solving skills to join our Business Operations Team. You'll be responsible for key financial operations processes end-to-end, supporting our payment processes end-to-end, ensuring that all queries are resolved within agreed timeframes and completing weekly and monthly reconciliations and control checks.

We're looking for a quick learner who can rapidly build an understanding of our product and platform inside out. This role will also provide the chance to work with our Product Engineering team to drive enhancements to our payment products. This role is an excellent opportunity to further develop your career in an exciting FinTech scaleup.

Key Responsibilities:

• Ownership of key operational processes, including but not limited to financial reconciliations and control checks.
• Responsible for calculating KPI metrics and assisting the team in achieving these KPIs to enable the business to track performance and make data driven decisions to what we innovate next.
• Creating reports to monitor and drive our financial operations performance.
• Monitoring and controlling how processes perform and communicating results to applicable stakeholders.
• Working with teams across the business to ensure that our financial operations are delivering the best possible outcome for all stakeholders.
• Investigating and communicating effectively any problems with the platforms or processes to applicable team members to ensure business continuity.
• Thinking of ways to constantly improve our back-end operations and working with different teams to reach improvement objectives.
• Contributing to the success of the Operations team by not only executing your core duties, but by using your experience to impact how our products perform.

About you

The ideal candidate will have a track-record in delivering results in a fast-moving business and hence be comfortable with change and uncertainty. Excellent stakeholder management experience is essential to being successful in this role.

Required Skills:

• You have previous experience in Financial Operations and end-to-end payment processes. A strong foundation in financial reconciliation is a plus.
• You are comfortable working within an Operations team, troubleshooting and resolving operational issues identified or raised by customers, clients and other departments.
• You have strong interpersonal skills with the ability to work collaboratively with diverse teams and functions.
• You have excellent time management skills with a track record of successfully and accurately producing reports from large data sets
• You have foundational knowledge of financial regulations and compliance. Good knowledge of FCA is a plus.
• You have excellent analytical and problem-solving skills as well as the ability to identify trends using data.
• You are a great communicator, both verbal and written. Experience working with remote teams is a plus.

Preferred Skills:

• You have 2-3 years’ experience in the finance industry.

Education Qualification:

• High School Diploma and Above

What we can offer you  

• Be part of the World’s Leading Digital Venture Builder  
• Have the opportunity to be a part of and learn from the incredible diverse talent in BC  
• Be exposed to the right mix of challenges, within a culture that promotes continuous learning and development and opportunity to work with Gen AI  
• A fun and open, if a little cricket obsessed, atmosphere – we own the Rajasthan Royals IPL team!
• 24 days of annual leave, 4 public holiday days, maternity and paternity leaves.  
• Private medical for you and your immediate family.

Important

At Blenheim Chalcot, we strive to create an environment where differences are not only accepted but greatly valued; where everyone can make the most of their capabilities and potential. We promote meritocracy, competence and the sharing of ideas and opinions. We are driven by data and believe the diversity, agility, generosity, and curiosity of our people is what sets us apart as an organization. Our strong commitment to a culture of inclusion is evident through our constant focus on recruiting, developing and advancing individuals based on their skills and talent.