Financial Reporting Accountant (6 months contract) - Investment Bank - London

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Job description

THE JOB

Specifically your responsibilities will include:

• You will have full accountability for and be the subject matter expert in the team for a number of traded products and own all associated financial reporting across a number of Group companies. You will develop your understanding of trading strategies to challenge booking models and consider the technical accounting of transaction structures.
• You will proactively contribute to the monthly GL close, through review of key controls and underlying trade data supporting an end-to-end understanding of systems and process flow and comprehensive ownership of underlying trade data.
• You will compliment timely and accurate financial reporting with value-add analysis through detailed analytical procedures to understand business performance and drivers, highlighting areas for business optimisation through compression, capital planning and leverage exposure management.
• You will leverage Business Intelligence and your knowledge of systems architecture to develop and automate processes to enhance control, increase efficiencies and enable greater focus on value-add analysis.

YOU

To be considered for this job, you will have the following experience:

• ACA, ACCA, CIMA or (or equivalent) qualified accountant with 1-2 years post qualified experience within Financial Services (ideally Big 4 banking and capital markets)
• A keen interest in Financial Reporting, with experience of preparing financial statement disclosures
• Solid knowledge of IFRS required
• Experience of working in a multi-GAAP Group function desirable
• Familiarity with working with very large volumes of complex data
• Financial Instruments experience
• Used to Multi-currency ledgers
• Ability to build relationships with all levels of stakeholders across the business in matrix style environment