Morgan Stanley - Associate - Product Control - Equities/Fixed Income

Job Description

We are currently recruiting for a Business Unit Controller for our P&L team supporting EMEA, Hong Kong and Japan regions.

Responsibilities include:

As a controller you will be a member of the P&L production team supporting the P&L of the business unit. The P&L production team is responsible for the daily reconciliation and reporting of P&L, additional weekly and monthly reporting to support the Business Unit and senior Finance management and also the provision of analysis to support the Business Unit Finance leads. This is a high profile role, which requires the individual to work closely with colleagues across the global organization in Finance, Operations and the Business Unit.

More specifically the successful candidate will:

- Perform daily reconciliation of the Risk systems attributed P&L to the Reporting system.

- Identify and investigate breaks.

- Escalate issues in a timely manner to management.

- Prepare daily P&L reports for distribution to the business unit and finance managers for review.

- Undertake daily analysis and substantiation of new trading activity to report and/or for discussion with the BUC's and or Ops/BU.

- Understand the businesses supported including the strategy, products and inherent risks.

- Understand the risk & reporting systems and contribute to enhancing the control environment.

- Contribute to Finance related projects, process enhancements, UAT testing etc.

- Other P&L related tasks and requests as required.

Skills required

- Strong academic background including a Graduation in Commerce, specialization in Financial Accounting.

- Prior Business Unit/ Product control experience with knowledge of financial products is preferable.

- Strong analytical skills.

- Attention to detail.

- Ability to work to deadlines.

Skills desired

- Chartered Accountant or equivalent specialization in Finance stream.

- Preferred 3-6 years financial experience (Capital Market related experience an advantage).

- Understanding of Corporate Actions would be beneficial.