Role & responsibilities
- Basic knowledge on month end closing process for any Legal entity, financial instruments reporting and disclosure as per US GAAP / IFRS.
- Basic working knowledge on month end reporting to SEC / CFTC returns
- Liaising with the entity Controllers to provide an understanding of financial reporting and month end closing process.
- Needs to understand the Business, Structure and Regulatory Reporting requirements of the Legal Entities assigned.
- Need to understand control and governance requirement from regulatory / financial reporting perspective
Key objectives critical to success:
- Ability to work to high degree of accuracy with logical and structured approach
- Ability to self-review, identify issues and investigate / escalate appropriately
- Ability communicate effectively with colleagues and build relationships within the department and across functions
Skills, experience, qualifications and knowledge required
- Should have strong analytical skills to be able to understand business & structure of the Legal Entities assigned to produce variance analysis for movements.
- Solid MS-Office Skills, Excellent Analytical and USGAAP Knowledge.
- Self starter, problem solver and ability to work with minimal supervision.
- Excel system skills and ability to learn organisation specific systems
- Chartered Accountant (CA, ACCA, ACA or equivalent)
- Experience of process, design and implementation
- Strong communication skills (written and verbal) and control minded focus
- Organised and methodical with attention to detail
- Well-developed PowerPoint and Excel skills. Additional knowledge of data transformation/visualisation tools also useful (e.g. Tableau/Alteryx)
Preferred candidate profile
CA or MBA background with accounting background. Role requires