As a LEC Analyst in our Finance team, you will have the opportunity to define, refine and deliver set goals for our firm each day. You will play a crucial role in ensuring the overall integrity and validity of our financial statements, financial regulatory reporting and management financial reporting. We, as a team, perform critical reporting and control functions for the organization and are responsible for improving ongoing processes and ensuring execution and implementation of overall financial architecture. As part of the LEC control function, you will review the reasonableness of the information on an aggregated basis and ensure controls over the transaction cycle, while managing stakeholders' expectations.
Job Responsibilities:
- Perform accounting and reporting for legal entities in the EMEA region (excluding the UK) on a monthly basis in accordance with US GAAP.
- Assume end-to-end ownership of month-end close activities, including FX trade out, capital hedge, and EPU.
- Liaise with auditors and support Legal Entity Controllers during control audits.
- Conduct quarterly regulatory reporting as per local GAAP for EMEA entities, including liquidity reporting and VAT returns.
- Support the senior management team in the decision-making process by analyzing financial performance.
- Maintain and develop relationships with onshore partners and business stakeholders.
- Implement internal control policies and procedures to mitigate financial and business risks.
- Monitor and control daily activities involving reconciliations.
- Maintain centralized financial reference data for the EMEA region.
- Participate in User Acceptance Testing (UAT) for various ongoing projects and system implementations.
- Engage team members and build effective working relationships within the team.
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills:
- Strong interpersonal and team working skills
- A self-starter, motivated and able to work with minimal supervision
- Demonstrate strong analytical and problem solving skills
- Flexibility to work under pressure to meet changing work requirements and strict deadlines
- Ability to communicate effectively both verbally and written - at all levels
- Attention to detail
- Chartered Accountant with minimum 1 year of experience (will vary depend on level)
- Strong accounting knowledge with experience in Book closure and finalizing accounts
- Ability to multi-task under considerable time pressure, whilst maintaining a high degree of accuracy and quality.
- Good Communication and organizational skills including partnering skills and pro-activeness.
- Strong PC skills including MS Excel, MS Word, MS Access and Outlook
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills:
- preferably with financial services industry.