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Technical Accounting Specialist

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Michael Page 160000.00 British Pound . GBP Per annum

2021-12-03 09:03:24

Job location Barkingside, Greater London, United Kingdom

Job type: fulltime

Job industry: Accounting

Job description

Global Banking Group

Job Description
The Director Technical Accounting will be responsible for:

  • Ensuring the provision of authoritative technical accounting support to a number of businesses
  • Building deep and effective working relationships across the business, with the resilience to see issues through to completion, working with other functions as needed (e.g. Regulatory policy, Legal, Risk or other areas in Finance).
  • Cooperating with various stakeholders: Regulatory Policy and Reporting, Tax, Legal, Risk, Product Control, Financial Control, Business Structuring teams, Strategy and Corporate Development and Corporate Real Estate Services.
  • Providing appropriate training supporting Finance, business and other functions in order to support their daily operations.
  • Group-wide authority for a range of technical topics. Pro-active checking regarding implementation, identifying and escalating material gaps. Understanding of how subject area impacts and is reflected in public disclosures for group and main operating entities. Awareness of approaches adopted by competitors. Track proposed rule changes and liaise with impacted businesses and functions to shape meaningful advocacy, interpretation & implementation planning for the firm.
  • Ensuring the accounting group standards on the allocated subject matters are up to date for all published standard requirements and policy interpretations, that they are easy to read and understand by other internal users.
  • Oversight of technical accounting compliance for external reporting under quarterly timetable and other ad-hoc reporting.
  • Recognised as technical authority by peers, management and internal clients.
  • Effective management and development of direct reports including coaching, helping them to further develop technical analytical ability, product and business knowledge, influencing and people skills.
The Successful Applicant
The successful candidate will be a qualified accountant with strong technical accounting experience, from a financial services perspective either in audit or working for a bank. Investment banking product knowledge is a must.

What's on Offer
Opportunity to join a global banking group with career opportunities either remaining in the technical world longer term or moving to other parts of the bank.

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