Job description
At Mercury, we believe that financial operations should be seamless, scalable, and automated. The Reconciliation team at Mercury is dedicated to building processes and tools that ensure financial accuracy, operational efficiency, and a best-in-class experience for our customers.
This is a product role that requires a deep understanding of reconciliation processes in a fintech environment and a strong ability to scale and automate financial operations. You will work closely with operations, engineering, and finance teams to shape the future of our reconciliation tools and processes. Your expertise will ensure that our reconciliation workflows are accurate, efficient, and built for growth, allowing Mercury to deliver exceptional financial products with confidence.
Reconciliation at Mercury should feel effortless and reliable—our goal is to make financial accuracy a given, not a challenge. You’ll lead efforts to enhance settlement and reconciliation processes, drive financial automation improvements, and ensure compliance with financial regulations and company policies.
*Mercury is a financial technology company, not a bank. Banking services provided through Choice Financial Group, Column N.A., and Evolve Bank & Trust, Members FDIC.
As part of the journey, we would expect you to:
- Ensure reconciliation processes evolve to support Mercury’s growth, collaborating with operations and analytics to improve efficiency while identifying opportunities for systematic fixes in engineering when needed.
- Collaborate with stakeholders across operations, engineering, data and finance to define reconciliation needs, improve workflows, and enhance reconciliation systems that efficiently ingest, match, and validate financial data.
- Support internal teams by resolving reconciliation-related incidents, addressing reporting inquiries, and enhancing financial data accuracy through tooling and automation.
- Influence cross-functional teams to align around a scalable reconciliation strategy, fostering strong relationships.
- Ensure reconciliation processes adhere to financial regulations and evolving audit expectations, collaborating with data, engineering, and finance teams to strengthen financial data governance, reporting, and controls..
- Own and optimize the reconciliation roadmap, ensuring timely and accurate transaction matching between Mercury, partners, and banking infrastructure while maintaining high standards for accuracy, risk mitigation, and operational excellence.
Some things that might make you successful in a role like this:
- 7+ years of relevant product management experience, ideally within fintech, with a focus on reconciliation.
- A deep understanding of reconciliation workflows, financial data management, and process automation.
- Experience with regulatory audits, financial reporting, or data governance, with an understanding of how reconciliation impacts compliance and internal controls.
- Strong analytical skills, with experience leveraging financial data, reconciliation reports, and transaction records to drive decision-making.
- A history of proactively identifying and solving reconciliation challenges, improving financial accuracy and efficiency.
- A track record of shipping high-quality financial tools that enhance automation, risk management, and reconciliation processes.
- The ability to navigate complex tradeoffs between automation, compliance, and operational scalability.
- Excellent stakeholder management skills, with the ability to align cross-functional teams and drive strategic decisions.
- Strong problem-solving skills, with the ability to anticipate and address reconciliation complexities before they become critical.
- A passion for building reconciliation systems that scale while maintaining accuracy and trust.
The total rewards package at Mercury includes base salary, equity, and benefits.
Our salary and equity ranges are highly competitive within the SaaS and fintech industry and are updated regularly using the most reliable compensation survey data for our industry. New hire offers are made based on a candidate’s experience, expertise, geographic location, and internal pay equity relative to peers.
Our target new hire base salary ranges for this role are the following:
- US employees (any location): $200,700 - $250,900
- Canadian employees (any location): CAD 189,700 - 237,100
Mercury values diversity & belonging and is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. All individuals seeking employment at Mercury are considered without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, gender identity, sexual orientation, or any other legally protected characteristic. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations throughout the recruitment process for applicants with disabilities or special needs. If you need assistance, or an accommodation, please let your recruiter know once you are contacted about a role.
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