Sub Ledger / Finance System Specialist recruitment

My client, a global leader in the Investment banking space is keen to secure the skills of a versatile and adaptable financial solution architecture expert to lead initiatives and teams whilst showing fluency and precision in adapting to change. The selected candidate will be able to evidence and draw on extensive exposure to Sub Ledger and GL platform projects, be able to navigate system and product flows articulating with clarity and depth about best practice when delivering change in the finance environment.

This is a long-term focused hire which will ideally be made permanent after an interim period and strong people management and all round business understanding will be needed in order to appropriately deputise for the current hiring manager prior to handover and ultimate replacement.

There is an immediate need to look into information taken from Derivative trades by the banks Rolf Nolan platform and to this end the hire necessitates understanding of trade attributes and how these can be captured by different systems. Further on from this the successful applicant will fulfil a global solution architecture function to support various deliveries across PL, Accounting and Financial Reporting and provide added value to the wider change programmes as a whole whilst playing a key part of the Architecture team to ensure that the agreed target state architecture continues to be validated and progressively applied to business lines and product sets globally.

Wider responsibility will be to oversee, approve and appraise  personnel and works across the wider Solution Architecture team as well as encompassing the below;.

Process Improvement; Sub Ledger, Posting engine’s, Trade Capture, Settlements, PL, Finance

System architecture development / Alignment of architecture with other work streams

Business Analysis

Data modelling and data supply to downstream to consumers

Front-to-Back business change                   

Expertise on financial standards such as IFRS and how this affects various traded product