External Reporting Controller - Associate

Job Description

You are a strategic thinker passionate about driving solutions in external reporting and financial oversight. You have found the right team. As an External Reporting Controller - Associate within our External Reporting function, you will spend each day overseeing financial statements and management reporting, ensuring a sound control environment. You will understand and apply accounting treatments, ensuring compliance with corporate and regulatory requirements. You will coordinate the preparation of quarterly regulatory requirements, validate balance sheet items, and understand balance sheet usage and reporting. Job Responsibilities: Apply up-to-date product/industry/market knowledge in specialty areas of reporting Consolidate, review, and analyze quarterly financial data for accuracy and completeness. Perform quarter-over-quarter variance analytics Coordinate data collection and quarterly business results with various lines of business, Regulatory Controllers and SEC reporting teams Assist in the thorough assessment of the issues and outcomes Communicate 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 filed with 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 Adhere 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) Adhere to various control procedures and edit checks to ensure the integrity of reported financial results Ensure accurate and complete data submission to the Regulators. Interpret and define regulatory and/or SEC requirements and coordinate internal and external policies Establish and manage relationships with the line of business, as well as with external regulatory agency constituents through ongoing partnership and dialogue Participate in continuous improvement efforts around data quality review and external reporting improvement projects Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills 5+ years 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 Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance preferred Experience in Product Control, Financial Control or knowledge of SEC reporting/Reg Reporting a plus