Finance Analyst Business Support recruitment

Corporate Reporting department is a team of over twenty qualified financial accountants. The department provides an excellent legal entity overview of all Bank of America Merrill Lynch (BAML) businesses and products. The Corporate Reporting team comprises statutory and legal entity control.

Responsibilities

Role is for a Legal Entity Controller at Officer level within a medium sized team (~7 people) with responsibility for all elements of legal entity reporting and control for MLI. The primary functions of the role are focussed on control as follows:

Essential

• Qualified Accountant - ACA, ACCA, or CIMA (or equivalent qualification)

• General Ledger experience

• Excel proficiency (pivots)

• Strong control mentality

• Apply sound judgement, pursue goals and consistently deliver  results

• Demonstrate ability to work in a team, while contributing individually and across other teams

• Ability to self manage and prioritise

• Problem solve with lateral thinking to create solutions

• Provide effective challenge and display confidence to challenge

• Strong communication skills – both written and verbal

• Flexibility and good negotiations skills

High level of ownership and attention to detail

In order to be considered for this position please email your CV and Covering letter to priya.patel@hays.com

Desirable

• US GAAP knowledge

• UK GAAP knowledge

• Demonstrable experience of preparing statutory accounts and liaising with auditors

• Familiarity with Investment Banking products and understanding of business flow

Oracle General Ledger experience

• Supporting the MLI Month end close including journal preparation for intercompany settlements and US GAAP to UK GAAP conversion to create the UK GAAP accounts for MLI.

• Working to produce the monthly MLI accounts under UK GAAP to support FSA return production

• Supporting the wider team through the monthly reporting cycle including reporting pack production, various PL, expense and balance sheet reviews

• Provide coverage to daily and weekly MLI commentary process

• Monthly controls and balance sheet attestation, expense commentary and review, corporate cost centre review and equity checks.

• Drive improvements in reconciliations and other controls

• Ad-hoc project work including SAP replacement ledger testing

• Working US regulatory colleagues to produce quarterly Federal Reserve filings

• Collation of supervisory review pack for the wider London Corporate Reporting team

• Assist in production of local GAAP statutory accounts and interface with external auditor

Handover this role to permanent replacements hires including review and improvements to

existing procedure documentation.