Acuity Knowledge Partners - Associate Director - Product Control

Opportunity:

- The candidate will work dedicatedly supporting the Product Control division of one of Acuity's clients and will be responsible for handling end-to-end processes for product control, risk analysis, monitoring and reporting, and reconciliation, among others.

- The candidate will be in direct interaction with client and responsible for the process ownership and final delivery of projects

Key Responsibilities:

Supporting our clients on setting up and managing processes for:

a. Product control & Financial control reporting

b. Risk analysis & reporting

c. Trade reconciliation and internal audits and Middle Office

- Managing delivery and execution of recurring and ad hoc tasks including daily P&L attribution & reporting, risk sensitivities reporting, balance sheet substantiation & control, ledger adjustments & month-end reporting, regulatory reporting etc.

- Managing project timelines and quality of deliverables in a manner to ensure "high client satisfaction"

- Conducting analysis and performing quality control check of the outgoing reports/packs

- Demonstrate strength and flair in client/requester relationship building and management, information/knowledge needs assessment

Required Background: MBA/ CFA/ CA

- Control function experience in the Investment banking or Hedge fund space

- Strong statistical and analytical skills to reconciliation and settlements variance reporting and analysis for clients

- Sound knowledge of financial markets with hands on experience in Equities, Fixed income products, Derivatives, Securitized products, Swaps, etc.

- Experience and good understanding of Middle office & Back office operations, Trade life cycle management and Independent price verification would be an added advantage

- The candidate should have the ability to work independently

- Ability to understand client requirements and execute work under pressure especially on short time bound deadlines

- Excellent written and spoken communication skills

- MS Office skills - should be good in MS PowerPoint, MS Excel, and MS Word]