Cash Reconciliation Specialist (Fintech)

Location: London, England, United Kingdom; hybrid work with a mix of remote and office work from Monday to Friday. Occasional attendance at the Farringdon office is expected.

Company

hirify.global is a growing fintech bank focused on helping customers manage their financial future while operating with integrity, transparency, and a positive environmental impact.

What you will do

• Perform daily reconciliations across internal cash ledgers, external bank statements, payment schemes, settlement accounts, and control accounts.
• Investigate and resolve cash breaks, including unmatched items, timing differences, failed payments, posting errors, and settlement variances.
• Work with Finance, Payment Operations, Financial Control, Treasury, banks, payment partners, and scheme providers to resolve exceptions and escalate high-risk or high-value items.
• Support month-end close by completing reconciliations, preparing evidence, and maintaining audit-ready documentation.
• Improve reconciliation processes, templates, standard operating procedures, controls, and review checklists.
• Support automated reconciliation capabilities through data mapping, exception reporting, root-cause analysis, and transaction-level analysis.

Requirements

• Experience performing cash reconciliations in a bank, fintech, payments firm, or regulated financial services environment.
• Strong understanding of reconciliation, cash control, ledger postings, settlement flows, payment control accounts, and multiple data sources.
• Advanced Excel skills, including pivot tables, lookups, structured templates, and exception reporting.
• Ability to investigate root causes, manage high-volume transaction data, prioritise by risk, value, and ageing, and escalate appropriately.
• Ability to maintain clear documentation, audit trails, control checklists, and supporting evidence.
• Degree-level education in Accounting, Finance, Economics, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.

Nice to have

• Experience with reconciliation tooling or financial systems, especially automated or exception-based reconciliation solutions.
• Progress toward an accounting qualification or relevant professional development.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid working with flexibility around use of the London office and remote work.
• 25 days of annual leave, 8 bank holidays, an additional hirify.global bank holiday, a birthday day off, and 3 personal days.
• Workplace pension with a 5% employee contribution and 3% employer top-up.
• Healthcare for employees and their immediate family, plus mental health support through Spill.
• MacBook, home-office setup support, enhanced parental leave, Cycle to Work and Electric Car schemes.
• Employer-sponsored volunteering time and opportunities for growth in a high-growth startup.

Hiring process

• 30-minute people screen with a talent acquisition specialist.
• 1-hour technical interview.
• 45-minute final interview.