Director Financial Control – Top Tier Investment Bank / International Exposure recruitment
A leading global investment bank is looking for a Director to be initially responsible for Hong Kong Financial Control and potentially move into a regional remit depending on experience and performance.
The individual would be responsible for the Hong Kong entities' financial control activities and to ensure best practice over the financial reporting processes. The individual will be responsible for delivering accurate statutory information, accurate management information, regulatory control and staff management
Responsibilities:
- Ensure all financial reporting are submitted in a timely fashion, error free and formulated within agreed regional frameworks
- Responsible for finance control activities and managing the financial control / reporting team in an effective manner
- Manage the financial reporting by conducting monthly procedures for the general ledger and finance reporting systems, liaising with other parties, including Regional hub of Financial Control, MI, Product Control and Operations, to ensure that all processes run smoothly and all dependencies are managed
- Support regional CFO's and the finance management in enhancing controls to ensure regulatory and internal compliance objectives are met
- Review regulatory returns, forecast and monitor regulatory capital/liquidity levels
- Provision of technical guidance to team surrounding local and international reporting standards
- Legal entity management and new business setup along with GL reconciliation reviews.
Experience:
- 10+ years experience in Finance and Banking field
- Ability to operate at a senior level, understanding complex financial/ business issues distilling/ communicating them in a simple and easily understood way while building effective and sustainable relationships with key stakeholders
- Good understanding of front to back office processes and systems to facilitate interactions with Ops, Risk, IT and other Finance functional areas
- Strong control awareness, including an understanding of the key controls required in an investment bank
- Solid understanding of systems and processes in a bank
- Strong understanding of regulatory and accounting requirements re IFRS, Basel 2, SOX, HKMA and SFC
March 20, 2011
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