Senior Reconciliations Planning and Strategy

Role Overview: At Tide, we are seeking a skilled individual to lead and own key reconciliation initiatives in our business management platform. As a part of our team, you will be responsible for designing scalable processes, driving automation, and ensuring our systems meet regulatory and safeguarding standards. Your focus will be on building for the future by solving complex reconciliation challenges, embedding risk mitigation strategies, and supporting new product launches and infrastructure enhancements across different markets. Key Responsibilities: - Design and enhance strategic reconciliation processes to support new and existing products, ensuring alignment with regulatory and safeguarding requirements in the UK, EU, and India. - Drive reconciliation transformation initiatives, from gap assessments and root cause analysis to full implementation of new workflows, system improvements, and automation strategies. - Identify and mitigate reconciliation risks by proactively assessing new product flows, transaction types, and operational changes. - Implement sustainable solutions to known reconciliation issues, embedding improvements that increase accuracy, efficiency, and control. - Lead strategic investigations into recurring or complex breaks, proposing and executing long-term resolutions to reduce operational overhead. - Create clear documentation, dashboards, and materials to support stakeholder visibility, audit readiness, and cross-team understanding. - Partner with Product, Engineering, Operations, and Compliance teams to embed reconciliation requirements into end-to-end journeys and upcoming launches. - Champion best practices in reconciliation design, defining excellence in process integrity, automation, and exception handling. Qualifications Required: - 7-10 years of experience in Reconciliation, Risk, or Control roles within a FinTech or financial services environment. - Proven experience in designing reconciliation processes aligned with regulatory frameworks, including safeguarding and e-money regulations. - Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to translate complex issues into actionable plans. - Demonstrated success in process improvement, automation, or system implementation within the reconciliation space. - Familiarity with reconciliation tools such as AutoRek and experience working with APIs, data structures, or custom integrations. - Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the confidence to influence stakeholders and document key processes. - Highly organized, detail-oriented, and capable of managing strategic projects independently in a fast-paced environment. - Comfortable working across teams and functions with minimal oversight, proactive, curious, and execution-focused. - Track record of successful process redesign, automation, system change management, and stakeholder enablement through tools or training. (Note: The additional details of the company provided in the job description have been omitted in this summary),