Corporate Financial Controller recruitment
The firm is currently reviewing and refining its business booking models to reflect its status as a bank holding company. The UK Controller department will therefore have a strong involvement with this initiative. The successful candidate will be lead this project from a financial control perspective.
As a result the role requires strong technical and organisational skills to manage the reporting and analysis and leadership/change management skills to adapt to a dynamic project environment
The other major function of this role is to manage the Tax Control group in the EMEA region which consists of two people, one of whom is based offsite. This involves two main responsibilities:
- Involvement in capital planning and tax planning – contributing ideas and executing these plans
- Ensuring that tax booking policies are complied with in the region and being the primary point of liaison for Finance with the Tax department
- Extensive liaison with senior management across the organization
The successful candidate will demonstrate the following:-
- Degree educated
- Professional accounting qualification (ideally gained in a “Big 4” firm with extensive financial services experience)
- Good knowledge of a broker-dealer balance sheet essential
- Strong multi-GAAP accounting skills required
- Good working knowledge of IFRS in a banking environment will be an advantage.
- Candidate may have a minimum of 5 years post qualification experience in banking/ financial services
Candidates will need to be on two week's notice period or less.