Credit Suisse - AVP - Finance Project Management

The Credit Suisse Group financial and Legal entity standard reporting project management team is mainly responsible for implementing the new GAAP requirements, migration of current entities disclosure reporting tool, process improvement and automation and any other projects impacting the group disclosure reporting.

The AVP role in this team will be involved in the following:

- Understanding the current business process flow and existing systems in detail

- Coordinating with line teams to get the business requirements

- Laying down the business requirement to change team for implementation

- Work toward harmonization of regional inconsistencies

- Coordinating with business and change team to monitor the project progress

- Reviewing and providing sign off on business requirements and system development.

- Providing regular project updates and highlight key challenges to relevant business partners

- Detail understanding of US GAAP, IFRS and Swiss GAAP (statutory) accounting standard.

- Working with various departments (Consolidation, Legal entity standard reporting team (LESR), Finance change etc.) to provide key inputs on project.

- Make recommendations to improve delivery of project

- Work with team and support to achieve the desired results.

- Responding to ad hoc queries from Finance change and other key business partners

- Ensuring all the project related documents are updated

Requirement

- You have a relevant university degree i.e accounting or finance related and are a qualified chartered accountant

- A proven 7-8 years- experience in a financial service industry with prior experience in banking or similar industry.

- Experience of project execution in area of operational improvement and finance system migration

- Experience of working on US GAAP & SWISS GAAP accounting standards

- Experience in Investment banking industry will be beneficial

- Strong communication and decision-making skills

- Sound knowledge of global banking products like loans, Derivatives, Repo etc.

- Good presentation/documentation skills along with being detail oriented and have a positive attitude to work commitments

- Ability to think logically and independently tackle problems

- Ability to work on tight deadlines

- Sound conceptual accounting skills

- You have strong Excel and PowerPoint skills

- Working knowledge of implementing any finance related system will be added advantage

- Ability to work effectively with people from other departments in the organisation

- Strong problem solving capabilities and real passion for developing innovative solution

- You are a phenomenal team player

- Ability to learn quickly about international banking products, processes and business

- Desire to work in a dynamic international finance environment

- You have a deep understanding of the value of diversity in the workplace and are dedicated to fostering an inclusive culture in all aspects of working life so that people from all backgrounds receive equal treatment, realize their full potential and can bring their full, authentic selves to work. This should be further elaborated on in your application.