Change Manager recruitment
In particular the person will act as a change agent with responsibility for;
- Supporting business developments and growth initiatives;
- Understanding of the control environment in order to be able to access the impact of change and input to change proposals;
- Ensure that the impact of change on controls is correctly assessed;
- Understanding business drivers / volumes in order to be able to impact to the architecture design; and
- Understanding the booking and reporting architecture in order to ensure able to assess the impact of proposed changes.
Skills and Experience
Detailed knowledge of accounting rules for all Investment Banking business . This includes both knowledge of existing and future products as well as booking / posting engines, in order to;
- Determine new accounting rule for new products,
- Understand the constraints around existing model e.g. trades not feeding down correctly and requiring journal adjustments,
- Set up posting rules in the various systems
- Understand statutory regulatory reporting requirements and changes in this environment in order to ensure that postings remain fit for purpose.
- Qualified accountant - Project / change management experience including working on one or more significant change initiatives,
- Extensive knowledge and understanding of Treasury products, including;
- Cash and funding instruments, loans and deposits, repo / reverse repo and stock loan / borrow,
- Derivatives Interest rate, inflation, cross currency, equity linked
- Bonds corporate and government
- Strong knowledge and experience of accounting for financial instruments,
- Strong technical accounting knowledge, especially around financial instruments / IAS 32/39.
- Previous experience in a Treasury Finance / Product Control function, or extensive audit experience of a Treasury function,
- Knowledge of trading systems and posting engines
- Understanding of full product lifecycle