System Analyst (Accounting)

Overview

This role involves defining, documenting, and delivering the financial logic behind a banking and lending platform, including GL structure, postings, fees, and product accounting.

Work is fully remote, with core collaboration hours from 12:00–6:00 PM Manila Time (UTC+8). The team is Manila-based and globally distributed.

Responsibilities

• Translate financial processes (GL, postings, fees, product rules) into technical specifications that development teams can build directly from.
• Reverse-engineer existing solutions to identify gaps and formalize undocumented areas.
• Drive implementations from specification to production, partnering on testing, acceptance, and release control alongside finance, product, and IT.
• Own requirements and specifications for accounting processes and financial systems, written as user stories development teams can act on.
• Define posting logic, GL structures, and fee mechanics for both new and existing products.
• Analyze and document accounting and financial systems that are incomplete or missing documentation.
• Align across finance, product, and engineering, including resolving conflicts between business logic and technical constraints.
• Perform testing and acceptance, ensuring work is carried through to production release.

Requirements

• 2–3+ years experience as a System or Business Analyst, including work with financial systems or financial processes.
• Solid understanding of accounting principles, including the general ledger.
• Proven decomposition and system analysis skills (ability to map complex processes and identify what’s missing).
• Experience coordinating requirements across multiple teams and stakeholders.
• Working knowledge of APIs, queues, and data exchange patterns; ability to read logs and use data to analyze issues.
• English B2 or above.

Compensation & Benefits

• Stock option plan — four-year vesting with a 25% cliff after the first year.
• Fully remote work with core collaboration hours from 12:00 to 6:00 PM Manila time (UTC+8).
• Company-provided tools and equipment.
• Health and time off.
• Medical insurance support for you and your family through co-funding or reimbursement, depending on your location and subject to policy limits.
• Access to an internal mental health support specialist.
• 22 vacation days, Philippine public holidays, and 15 sick days.

Preferred Qualifications

• Opportunities for growth through internal expert meetups, external conferences, speaking opportunities, and industry publications.

Location

Fully remote; core collaboration hours are 12:00–6:00 PM Manila Time (UTC+8). The team is globally distributed and hybrid-first.