Manager/AVP - Financial Accounting & Reporting - Investment Bank - CA

Hiring for Manager - AVP Financial Accounting and Reporting role.

- CA with strong knowledge of accounting under IFRS and Financial Products

- Good understanding of Stat Accounts

- Experience of People / Team management (6 to 8 people) & Stake holder management

- Industry : Only Banking (preferable those handling U.K Clients)

Position Purpose

- Manage a team supporting financial accounting process for London.

- Ensure that accounting production and statutory accounts is complete, accurate and compliant with Group accounting policies

- Contribute to the pre-closing process

- Perform and document accounting controls and analysis

- Contribute to the automation of certain accounting processes and the standardisation of booking schemes among entities

Direct Responsibilities

- Review the financial monthly financial accounting production and annual statutory accounts for subsidiaries

- Review the reconciliations and ensure clearance of open items in reconciliations in a timely manner

- Follow up /raise escalations with the respective stakeholders for open items

- Contribute to inter-company transactions reconciliation.

- Ensure the good coordination with the Regional Financial Accounting team, in particular during the pre-closing process and whenever an accounting issue needs to be addressed

- Participate to Finance Projects linked to Financial Accounting

- Application of accounting processes and checks in respect of financial accounting under IFRS and French GAAP.

- Review account activity/daily ledgers for posting errors and back-value transactions

- Review ledgers and perform account and transaction analysis for a set of entities

- Analyse, reconcile, and review all accounts under their responsibility by performing a variance analysis of corresponding revenue/balance sheet items, highlighting trends, and following up on questions/ concerns

- Review month-end substantiation packages for multiple legal entities.

- Assists with audit requests from External Audit, Regulators and internal control teams.