Newly Qualified Accountant for Product Control recruitment
Requirements:
-Fully Qualified Accountant
-Excellent numerical skills with the ability to problem solve in a logical manner
-Thorough, cool temperament, reliable, effective in allocating priorities
-Good communication skills
-Good theoretical product knowledge on derivatives
-Strong software skills (particularly Excel)
Primary Responsibilities:
-To produce a justification of the PL via daily risk-based decomposition, and provide commentary on PL drivers
-To produce month-end final revenue figures for the FI Rates Management business and to attest to Balance Sheet accuracy
-To take responsibility for monthly restatement of PL reports, ensuring consistency between official General Ledger and daily PL reports
-To ensure foreign currency exposure in the ledger is hedged appropriately in accordance with agreed Fixed Income practice
-To continuously review processes and identify improvements/enhancement of PL controls
-To assist in various local and Bank wide project implementations and change initiatives
-To perform various data integrity checks (eg. erroneous end of day prices)
-To ensure adequate documentation exists to support existing processes, enabling effective cross-training and cover
-To provide an effective link between Front Office (FO) and Product Control, utilising specialist product knowledge and software skills to produce and summarise daily PL, investigate and resolve discrepancies, obtain FO sign-off and publish final reports.
-To ensure immediate superiors are kept adequately appraised of pertinent issues and developments