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Location: Chester Functional Title: Finance Product Controller Hybrid 3 days in the office Duration 12 Months Key Job Functions P&L reporting principally for derivative trading desk, but also providing support to other desk reporting tasks valuation of securities portfolio and P&L reconciliations reporting of P&L to front office and senior management of General Ledger (GL) account balances for P&L and BS for related activity and post GL journal entries for daily and month end close of assigned Balance Sheet accounts and responsible for monthly substantiation of GL balances accurate classification of balances on the P&L account and Balance Sheet (e.g. third party and related party classification and reporting) and Quarterly revenue reporting support to Back Reconciliations (FOBO) and break investigation with other ongoing and ad-hoc work as required to support the Finance function. Key Skills & Abilities good knowledge and understanding of the securities and derivative products generally: knowledge or experience in the following areas: cycle events, terminology, booking models (end to end), daily revenue production in similar roles, reconciliation experience. understanding of the GL accounting entries throughout the product life cycles basic understanding of IFRS & JGAAP for fair value methods part or fully qualified in a professional accounting qualification Excel to a very high level (e.g. macros, pivots, efficient data manipulation / processing, reconciliations) to pro-actively work through problems for oneself and deliver required output to meet demanding deadlines with flexibility to work extended hours with little or no notice (early starts / late finishes) to self learn and navigate through systems approach, attention to detail confidence, keen desire and ability to identify and implement changes and improvements to processes to communicate and present technical / complex matters in a simple way to various audiences to work with a range of business functions conduct with excellent interpersonal and communication skills Please be advised if you haven't heard from us within 48 hours then unfortunately your application has not been successful on this occasion, we may however keep your details on file for any suitable future vacancies and contact you accordingly. Pontoon is an employment consultancy and operates as an equal