VP - Financial Reporting - Investment Banking

- Maintain Financial reporting integrity and review all data included in the financial reports for accuracy and completeness

- Prepare/maintain supporting documentation for financial statements and related footnotes and maintain standard list of accounting and reporting reviews for pre-quarter close

- Maintain list of business and accounting events prior to balance sheet date for support during business review of IFRS schedules

- Conduct reviews on critical processes such as head office expenses, cross-border recharges, hedge accounting, derivatives and related processes.

- Perform trial balance and general ledger reviews to confirm appropriate accounting and statement in books based on the above lists

- Engage with Data Quality and Assurance team for data reviews and confirmation on posting journals for appropriate rectification and adjustments to ledger data

- Engage with IFRS reporting team to ensure that reporting actions based on past-quarters- group queries have been completed and do not recur

- Perform quarterly analysis of movements in balances, variance and identify business reasons

- Working closely with stakeholders across Country finance, Business finance and Group Finance teams and manage expectations.

- Perform Financial Results Analysis (FRA) for submission to Group Finance

- Perform business review of IFRS schedules - profile & loss, balance sheet and off-balance sheet to confirm expected results are reported in the schedules

- Complying with all governance requirements - Process metrics review, Service review calls, BCP.

- Coordinate with internal and external auditors to provide timely information and support

- Building a strong functional and business knowledge in the teams.

- Actively participate in solution design and delivery for new developments such as IFRS 9

- Assists in recruiting, training and evaluating employees.

- Developing and implementing continued professional training for employees in partnership with the Learning and Development team.

- Coach, mentor employees to build a high performance team.

- Implement an effective governance process to sustain process standardization and automation

- Identify unique needs of country and group teams; build a robust service delivery model that does not disrupt the process organization

- Engage and collaborate with Country and Group teams for process, knowledge and change management

- Contribute effectively as Scope and FSSC Extended Leadership Team for GSSC and FSSC initiatives as necessary

Skills: Functional:

- Advanced knowledge of IFRS reporting standards and practices

- Extensive working experience in different financial and accounting systems

- Experience of working in a global financial services organisation in a matrixed environment.

- SOX and internal controls experience preferred.

Qualification:

- Qualified Accountant is a must - CA, CPA or CIMA (UK)

- 10 plus years post qualification relevant work experience in a Financial Reporting role preferably in a Financial services industry with specific experience in performing analytical reviews of legal entity/statutory reporting (schedules and