Description
You will join the Recon and Reporting team at Block, which owns post-transaction systems responsible for reconciling money, tracing fund flows, and meeting tax and regulatory reporting obligations.
As a Senior Analyst, you will independently own reconciliation and reporting workstreams end to end. You will be the subject matter expert ensuring numbers tie out, reconciling card-network settlement and report files, and translating ambiguous reconciliation and reporting needs into concrete metrics, controls, and automated solutions.
Responsibilities:
- Independently prioritize, design, develop, and deploy end-to-end reconciliation and reporting solutions
- Own time-sensitive daily, weekly, and monthly reconciliations across card networks, banking partners, processors, and internal transaction and ledger data
- Translate ambiguous business, finance, and regulatory needs into concrete measurement systems
- Serve as the subject matter expert on settlement, funding, and money-movement flows
- Own the design, development, and documentation of automated SQL-based reporting
- Work independently or partner with data engineering to design, build, validate, troubleshoot, and maintain datasets and pipelines
- Proactively identify control gaps, revenue leakage, manual toil, and upstream data-quality issues
- Own relationships with technical and non-technical stakeholders across Engineering, Product, Accounting, Treasury, Tax, and Compliance
- Lead month-end close support for the domain
- Define business requirements and test plans for system changes
- Help onboard and mentor other analysts
- Apply an AI-first mindset to improve analytical work
Requirements:
- 5+ years of related experience in reconciliation, settlement, payment operations, accounting, or finance analytics
- Expert-level SQL
- Demonstrated experience independently owning reconciliation, settlement, or financial reporting workstreams end to end
- Strong knowledge of accounting principles, double-entry concepts, and money movement mechanics
- Experience partnering with data engineering or working independently to design, build, validate, and maintain data pipelines
- Advanced Excel proficiency and experience with reconciliation tooling and banking portals
- Excellent communication skills
- Track record of proactively identifying and delivering process improvements and automation
Preferred Experience:
- Deep experience with card-network reconciliation and settlement
- Strong familiarity with funds-transfer processes and rails
- Scripting skills (Python or similar)
- Experience with cloud data warehouses and BI platforms
- Exposure to interchange and fee/cost reconciliation, revenue-leakage detection, and tax or regulatory reporting regimes
- Experience supporting audits, internal controls, or SOX-adjacent processes
- Curiosity about payments products and financial markets