Financial Settlement Manager

At U.S. Bank, we’re on a journey to do our best. Helping the customers and businesses we serve to make better and smarter financial decisions, enabling the communities we support to grow and succeed in the right ways, all more confidently and more often—that’s what we call the courage to thrive.   We believe it takes all of us to bring our shared ambition to life, and each person is unique in their potential. A career with U.S. Bank gives you a wide, ever-growing range of opportunities to discover what makes you thrive. Try new things, learn new skills and discover what you excel at—all from Day One. 

As a wholly owned subsidiary of U.S. Bank, Elavon is committed to building the platforms and ecosystems that help over 1.5 million customers around the world to achieve their financial goals—no matter what they need. From transaction processing to customer service, to driving innovation and launching new products, we’re building a range of tailored payment solutions powered by the latest technology. As part of our team, you can explore what motivates and energizes your career goals: partnering with our customers, our communities, and each other. 

Job Description

Responsibilities include:

• Lead a Settlement team in a global function whose primary role is to record all merchant acquiring transaction activity timely and accurately in financial systems daily.

• Supports the team & wider business function with month end & quarterly close activities.

• Oversees the balance sheet & income statement activities of the acquiring business.

• Develops and implements strategies for financial goals of the organisation

• Builds strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders.

• Responds to inquiries regarding accounting policies, procedures, and issues from management, external auditors, and regulatory authorities.

• Ensure all processes are documented and all procedures are updated periodically.

• Maintain a culture of high performance, teamwork and continuous improvement.

• Coordinate cross-functional activities, ensuring alignment with business objectives and integration of new processes.

• Monitor team member performance by reviewing quality of work, adherence to protocols, timeliness of deliverables. Provide coaching and feedback as needed. Schedule and lead annual performance reviews in accordance with defined process.

• Other duties as assigned.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree, or equivalent work experience

• Minimum 5 years of finance experience, preferable in the payments or banking sector.

Key Skills

• Experience managing & mentoring a multi-location team of finance professionals

• Strong analytical skills to help guide strategic decision-making processes.

• Problem-solving skills to identify financial issues and create effective solutions.

• Excellent communication skills to effectively convey financial information to various stakeholders.

• Strong negotiation and influencing skills.

• Excellent leadership and management skills.

• Excellent skills using Microsoft Office Suite: MS PowerPoint, MS Word, and MS Excel

• Adaptability and flexibility to changing priorities.

• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with others.

• Confidence in learning and embracing new technology to solve issues.

• Experience with Workday but not essential

The role offers a hybrid/flexible schedule, which means there's an in-office expectation of 3 or more days per week and the flexibility to work outside the office location for the other days.

If there’s anything we can do to accommodate a disability during any portion of the application or hiring process, please refer to our disability accommodations for applicants.

Benefits:

We offer an exciting, fast-paced and diverse working environment with employees of many different nationalities. We provide benefits to help you protect your health and financial security; and give you peace of mind. We also invest in your career growth with development resources that give you the opportunity to stretch and shine.