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.
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