Credit Suisse - Junior Accountant - CA

Credit Suisse is a leading global wealth manager with strong investment banking capabilities. Headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland, we have a global reach with operations in about 50 countries and employ more than 45,000 people from over 150 different nations. Embodying entrepreneurial spirit, Credit Suisse delivers holistic financial solutions to our clients, including innovative products and specially tailored advice. Striving for quality and excellence in our work, we recognize and reward extraordinary performance among our employees, provide wide-ranging training and development opportunities, and benefit from a diverse range of perspectives to create value for our clients, shareholders and communities. We are Credit Suisse.

Departmental overview

Financial Accounting is responsible for the legal and regulatory reporting including notes and disclosures of Credit Suisse and the associated controls around the data referenced in this process.

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, operational improvement and automation and any other projects impacting the group disclosure reporting.

A department which values Diversity and Inclusion (D&I) and is committed to realizing the firm's D&I ambition which is an integral part of our global Conduct and Ethics Standards.

Responsibilities :

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

- Coordinating with line teams to understand the business requirements

- Laying down the business requirement to change team for implementation

- Work toward harmonization of regional inconsistencies

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

- Testing the solution designed, to ensure it is in line with business requirements.

- Coordinating testing and documenting the concern raised by line teams for tracking and resolution.

- 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 enhance delivery of project

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

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

- Ensuring all the project related documents are updated

Education and professional qualifications :

Desirable :

- Relevant university degree i.e accounting or finance related.

- Qualified Chartered Accountant

WORK EXPERIENCE / BACKGROUND :

Desirable :

- 2-3 years- experience in a financial service industry

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

- Experience in Investment banking industry will be added advantage