Financial Control- Analyst

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

As a Financial Controller in our organization, you will spend each day defining, refining, and delivering key objectives for our firm. Your primary focus will be on maintaining the accuracy, integrity, and timeliness of our books and records across the entire business lifecycle. You will emphasize general ledger, operating systems, and systemic controls. Your responsibilities will include balance sheet reconciliation and certification, balance sheet substantiation, GLRS reporting and governance, inter-entity control and governance, manual accounting and bookings to the general ledger and operating systems, as well as managing the month-end close process. Your contributions will be vital in ensuring a sound control environment and supporting the financial health of our firm.

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
• Excellent desktop/spreadsheet/database skills
• Excellent organizational and problem-solving skills
• Basic understanding of securities and derivatives products
• 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
• 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.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Able to multi-task in a constantly changing environment
• Able to critically challenge with the goal of identifying control issues
• Existing relationships and networks within the firm's IB community an advantage