The external reporting function handles the oversight of the financial statements and management reporting, ensuring a sound control environment; understands and applies the accounting treatments and ensures compliance with appropriate corporate and regulatory requirements; coordinates the preparation of quarterly regulatory requirements; validates balance sheet items and understands balance sheet usage and reporting.
Job Responsibilities
- Consolidates, reviews, and analyzes quarterly financial data for accuracy and completeness. Perform quarter-over-quarter variance analytics
- Coordinates data collection and quarterly business results with various lines of business, Regulatory Controllers and SEC reporting teams
- Communicates financial information to the lines of businesses and able to flag potential issues
- Participate in various aspects for the production, review and filing of monthly, quarterly, semi-annual, and annual reports for various regulatory agencies that are used by the regulators for compiling widely-used statistics on the levels of, and changes in, domestic and international portfolio positions
- Adheres to proof & control procedures to ensure accurate reconciliation between regulatory filings, SEC filings and other published financial reports (e.g., Form 10-Q, Annual Report/Form 10-K, Call Report & FR Y-9C, Pillar III, etc)
- Adheres to various control procedures and edit checks to ensure the integrity of reported financial results
- Ensures accurate and complete data submission to the Regulators
- Interprets and define regulatory and/or SEC requirements and coordinate internal and external policies
- Establishes and manage relationships with the line of business as well as with external regulatory agency constituents through ongoing partnership and dialogue
- Participates in continuous improvement efforts around data quality review and external reporting improvement projects
Required qualifications, capabilities and skills
- Minimum 3 years of experience in a Finance organization with exposure to accounting, financial statements, and/or regulatory reporting
- Strong skills in time management, problem solving, written and oral communication
- Team player, with ability to work effectively across diverse functions, locations and businesses
- Excellent Excel and computer skills
- Strong analytical skills
- Extremely strong organizational and time management skills
Preferred qualifications, capabilities and skills
- Project management experience/skills helpful
- Experience in Product Control, Financial Control or knowledge of SEC reporting/Regulatory Reporting a plus
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance preferred