Business Analyst - Fee Reconciliation and Monitoring at Adyen

This is Adyen Adyen provides payments, data, and financial products in a single solution for customers like Meta, Uber, H&M, and Microsoft - making us the financial technology platform of choice. At Adyen, everything we do is engineered for ambition. For our teams, we create an environment with opportunities for our people to succeed, backed by the culture and support to ensure they are enabled to truly own their careers. We are motivated individuals who tackle unique technical challenges at scale and solve them as a team. Together, we deliver innovative and ethical solutions that help businesses achieve their ambitions faster. Business Analyst - Fee Reconciliation & Monitoring Adyen is looking for a Business Analyst to join the Group Finance team in Amsterdam. In this role, you will be central to protecting Adyen’s financial performance across issuing, card-based and alternative payment methods. This role goes beyond traditional accounting - you'll be our team's expert on fee structures for providers such as Klarna, Mastercard and Visa, and ensure the financial stability of Adyen’s transactional cost engines. Your responsibilities include monitoring for cost anomalies, identifying (net) revenue leakage, driving the standardization and automation of reconciliation across cost engines, improving our reporting processes, and generating insights that ensure net revenue stability and predictability. You will reinforce the company’s commitment to financial integrity and ensure the accuracy of our supplier charges. As the go-to expert within Finance, you’ll work closely together with global teams, including Product, Engineering, Accounting, and Partnerships. What You'll Do • Ensure the company is charged accurately by suppliers (Schemes and Alternative Payment Methods), leveraging data to detect discrepancies between predicted fees and actual invoices. • Work with product teams to standardize and develop reconciliation processes that scale across card-based payment methods, alternative payment methods and issuing. • Develop and maintain monitoring frameworks to detect anomalies in supplier charging patterns, preventing (net) revenue leakage. • Own and close the reconciliation gap between IC++, blend and alternative payment methods, such as Klarna and Affirm. • Work across the organisation (Payment Partnerships, Product) to ensure accurate buy-side pricing (relevant for Alternative Payment Methods). • Analyze and identify the necessary data to address financial variances, extract the required data, and perform analysis. • Implement automated triggers to alert Finance of unexpected cost spikes. • Improve, suggest and develop automation and tooling for bridging the gap between raw transaction data and financial reconciliation processes. Who You Are • Excellent at analyzing and communicating complex data or technical functionality to both finance and engineering stakeholders. • 1-3 years working experience as a technical business, data, or finance analyst. • Detail-oriented, with a "detective" mindset capable of delivering high-quality work and sticking to deadlines. • Thrives in identifying financial inefficiencies and taking initiative to drive cost recovery. You're eager to become an expert in complex fee logic, but you also maintain a curious and critical perspective on the status quo. • Comfortable in a fast-paced environment requiring excellent time management and the ability to multitask and prioritize effectively. • Nice to have: Experienced in analyzing data using SQL and Python, as well as Excel. Any experience with data visualization tools such as Looker to build financial health dashboards is a strong advantage. Our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion commitments Our unique approach is a product of our diverse perspectives. This diversity of backgrounds and cultures is essential in helping us maintain our momentum. Our business and technical challenges are unique, and we need as many different voices as possible to join us in solving them - voices like yours. No matter who you are or where you’re from, we welcome you to be your true self at Adyen. Studies show that women and members of underrepresented communities apply for jobs only if they meet 100% of the qualifications. Does this sound like you? If so, Adyen encourages you to reconsider and apply. We look forward to your application! What’s next? Ensuring a smooth and enjoyable candidate experience is critical for us. We aim to get back to you regarding your application within 5 business days. Our interview process tends to take about 4 weeks to complete, but may fluctuate depending on the role. Learn more about our hiring process here. Don’t be afraid to let us know if you need more flexibility. This role is based out of our Amsterdam office. We are an office-first company and value in-person collaboration; we do not offer remote-only roles.