Commodities Financial Controller recruitment

Role Responsibilities

A chance to work for award winning Commodities business and has pursued an expansion strategy enabling the bank to provide more complete client solutions and add value to the existing Commodities business suite. The role presents the candidate with an opportunity to add value in this environment by being part of the team responsible for ensuring the process flow from trade capture to expiry is recorded accurately in the books and records of the Bank  are consistent with the revenue reported in the Banks’ Reporting Systems.

• The roles will require the ability to identify sub-optimal process and design solutions to mitigate this.  

• The role will also require understanding of the month end process , assisting the team on other ad hoc tasks and projects or initiatives including the drive for more automation, control and straight through processing into our functions.

• Investigations following the month end close around unsubstantiated balances or unexpected movements will also be required.

• Furthermore as the Business seeks new opportunities in these product areas the impact of New Products on the business needs assessing in terms of ability to include within current infrastructure or documenting our requirements if new process is required.

• Alongside your colleagues and peers in Financial Control, you will work closely with other areas- those performing Operational Process and Reconciliation and to Risk and Pnl. Furthermore close interaction with Reconciliation Groups will also be required including offshore partners as with Business Managers and trading staff.

Experience/ Qualifications

• A good accounting background, a logical and intuitive mind and the ability to challenge the status quo are all skill sets needed to excel in this role.

• Excellent inter-personal skills to work with other groups to develop an appropriate control framework is in place and maintained for the Business’s will be required.

• Accounting Qualification preferred

• Experience in a Financial Control environment within a bank

• Experience of Commodity/FX Products

• Self-motivated

• Flexible

• Able to work as part of a team

• Intuitive Proactive, with a logical and methodical mindset to problem solving

• Ability to interrogate data and be able to explore into the detail

• To be a good fit with the group we need someone with the self-confidence to be able to put across their views and opinions.

• Microsoft Excel  Access