Accounting Controls & General Ledger Accounting

• Currently the team plays a key role in the Finance Department in ensuring that the integrity of data within the General
• Ledger (GL) is maintained to the highest degree. The team undertakes daily accounting interface and GL controls. The
• objectives are to apply financial controls to ensure the consistency of data between the GL and the bank's administration
• systems, to monitor accounts in the GL (ensuring they are correctly used). In pursuit of these objectives the team
• undertakes a multitude of daily and monthly controls that cross all the banks financial systems and product lines. The
• team is customer focused with individuals becoming specialists in particular systems and products and offering support to other departments.
• As a member of the team your responsibility will be to manage the accurate and timely completion of daily and monthly
• tasks allocated to you. You will be responsible for the production and analysis of reconciliations of the general ledger
• against a variety of source (back office) systems ensuring all outstanding items have been followed up for clearance.
• You will monitor and reconcile control accounts within the GL and in doing so will take full responsibility for updating the general ledger accounting records.

Responsibilities

- Monitor specific control accounts within the GL

- Daily controls across various admin systems and the GL ensuring that they are in line with each other, resolving any discrepancies or issues arising

- Provide explanations and supporting backup for issues outstanding on the daily and monthly recs, highlighting valid reasons

- Covering of other essential controls as directed by line manager

- Accounting data entry management

- Regular liaison with other areas of Finance and the middle and back office to investigate discrepancies.

- Contribution to BNP Paribas operational permanent control framework

Essential Skills and Experience

- Candidates must have a good understanding of accounting control and reconciliation issues

- Audit background essential

- Ability to analyse issues into constituent elements and identify root causes and solutions

- Attention to detail

- Expresses technical information logically and concisely

- Knowledge of Investment banking

- Access skills to intermediate level desired but not essential.

Preferred Industry/domain experience :

Proven track record having worked previously in an Audit firm (Top four) for the Banking Industry

The following core competencies are required for this job:

- Communication clearly, efficiently and effectively

- Initiative

- Team Working

- Problem Solving/Analysis

- Flexibility/Adaptability

- Integrity

Qualified Chartered Accountant

Skills Referential

BehaviouralSkills:

• Ability to deliver / Results driven
• Adaptability
• Ability to collaborate / Teamwork
• Creativity & Innovation / Problem solving

Transversal Skills:

• Ability to understand, explain and support change
• Analytical Ability
• Ability to develop and adapt a process
• Ability to anticipate business / strategic evolution
• Ability to manage a project

Education Level:

Master Degree or equivalent

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