Financial Controller - Associate

Job Description

You are a strategic thinker passionate about driving solutions in financial control. You have found the right team. As a Financial Controller in our Finance team, you will spend each day defining, refining, and delivering set goals for our firm. Your primary focus will be 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. You will be responsible for functions such as 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 managing operating systems and the month-end close process and coordination. 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