As a Financial Controller – Senior Associate within the Financial Controller team, you will be responsible for the balance sheet reconciliation and substantiation, as well as reporting controls, and the month end close process and coordination.
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
- 4 years of experience with general ledger, financial reporting and month end close responsibilities
- Strong understanding of securities and derivatives products
- Strong analytical skills; able to quickly understand workings of a complex processing system and general ledger systems across the infrastructure and their interrelationships and dependencies
- 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
- 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 and the ability to critically challenge with the goal of identifying control issues
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills:
- Existing relationships and networks within the firm's IB community an advantage