Financial Controller - Associate

You are a strategic thinker passionate about ensuring accuracy and integrity in financial records. You have found the right team.

As a member of our Financial Control function, you will spend each day overseeing the firm's books and records, managing general ledger and operating system controls, and coordinating key activities such as balance sheet reconciliation, substantiation, GLRS reporting and governance, inter-entity controls, manual accounting, and the month-end close process.

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
• 3+ years of related experience
• Strong understanding of securities and derivatives products
• General Ledger experience
• Experience with financial reporting and month end close responsibilities
• 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
• Excellent desktop/spreadsheet/database skills

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Excellent organizational and problem-solving 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