Vice President - Financial Planning & Analysis - Investment Bank - CA/CPA/ACCA

Essential :

- Qualified Accountant - CA, CPA, ACCA

- Strong academic background - minimum bachelor degree from a reputable institution

Experience :

- Experience in month end closure including Balance sheet control and IFRS reporting

- Ability to manage and lead a team and interact with senior staff across multiple jurisdictions in multiple functions

Preferred :

- Experience of having worked in IB environment

Specific responsibilities includes and not restricted to :

- Ownership of financials including Balance sheet control and month end closure

- Represent financial control in the LoR (Letter of Representation) meetings, which requires presenting financials, explaining monthly variances and tabling key issues and potential resolutions

- Production of reports for data analysis to identify and explain key trends /variances. Where any gaps or inconsistencies are noted, to follow up and work towards appropriate closure.

- Review of various Group submissions including monthly / quarterly IFRS (International Financial Reporting Standards) reporting

- Deal with product control and risk teams to ensure appropriate reporting and presentation of the P&L accounts and disclosure of the balance sheet accounts.

- Monitoring of capital levels and reporting of large exposures for different entities

- Support Pnl & Balance Sheet enrichment process

- Ensure proper controls are in place and operating effectively

- Engaging in the New Product Approval process and confirm the accounting treatment including coordination with relevant ops team to ensure that new accounts are opened and appropriate entries are passed

- Ensure that appropriate transfer pricing between entities is conducted to ensure that the legal entity financials are properly reflected.

- Support and respond to ad-hoc data requests