Financial Controller - Analyst

Description

You are a strategic thinker passionate about driving solutions in financial Control. You have found the right team.

As a Financial Controller - Analyst in our Finance team, you will spend each day defining, refining, and delivering set goals for our firm. The Financial Control function is primarily focused on ensuring the accuracy, integrity, and timeliness of the firm’s books and records with an emphasis on general ledger, operating systems, and infrastructure controls across the entire lifecycle of the business.

Job Responsibilities

• Work on Balance sheet and Profit & Loss account reconciliation.
• Work on General Ledger Reconciliation & Substantiation.
• Reporting, Inter-entity control and governance.
• Perform manual accounting & entry bookings to the General Ledger and operating systems during the month end close process.
• 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 profit & loss 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

• CA/CFA/MBA Finance/master’s or bachelor’s degree in accounting.
• 3+ years of related experience with financial reporting, General Ledger and month end close responsibilities.
• Comfortable liaising with business and risk managers and able to critically challenge with the goal of identifying control issues.
• 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

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• 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. Able to multi-task in a constantly changing environment.
• Excellent desktop/spreadsheet/database skills.
• Soft Skills - Excellent organizational and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.