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 ensuring the accuracy, integrity, and timeliness of the firm’s books and records. You will focus on general ledger, operating systems, and infrastructure controls across the entire lifecycle of the business. 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, and coordinating 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) standardsEnsure adherence to P&L and Balance Sheet controls owned by Financial Control, including identifying and implementing opportunities for efficiencyAnalyze, communicate, and resolve material variances between the general ledger and upstream systems, as defined by line of businessRequired qualifications, capabilities, and skills
Bachelor’s degree in AccountingExcellent desktop/spreadsheet/database skillsExcellent organizational and problem-solving skillsBasic understanding of securities and derivatives productsComfortable liaising with business and risk managersAble to build and maintain partnerships within the various product aligned businesses and across other corporate financial, treasury, and accounting groupsAble to understand business drivers and requirements, and influence middle and front office partners to deliver solutions to business issues and problemsStrong 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 verbal and written communication skillsPreferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
Able to multi-task in a constantly changing environmentAble to critically challenge with the goal of identifying control issuesExisting relationships and networks within the firm's IB community an advantage