As a Financial control Professional in our Finance team you will spend each day defining, refining and delivering set goals for our firm.
Job Responsibilities
- Ensure the accuracy and validity of line of business general ledger accounts, including adherence to the firmwide General Ledger Reconciliation & Substantiation (GLRS) standards
- Ensure adherence to P&L and Balance Sheet controls owned by Financial Control, including identifying and implementing opportunities for efficiency
- Analyze, communicate, and resolve material variances between the general ledger and upstream systems, as defined by line of business
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting. Strong understanding of securities and derivatives products. General Ledger experience
- Experience with financial reporting and month end close responsibilities. Comfortable liaising with business and risk managers
- Able to build and maintain partnerships within the various product aligned businesses and across other corporate financial, treasury, and accounting groups
- Able to understand business drivers and requirements and influence middle and front office partners to deliver solutions to business issues and problems
- Strong analytical skills: Ability to quickly understand workings of a complex processing system and general ledger systems across the infrastructure and their interrelationships and dependencies. Excellent desktop/spreadsheet/database skills
- Excellent organizational and problem-solving skills
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Able to multi-task in a constantly changing environment
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Able to critically challenge with the goal of identifying control issues
- Existing relationships and networks within the firm's IB community an advantage