Credit Suisse - Vice President - Legal Entity Accounting & Review

We Offer

- The Legal Entity Controllers sit in FMAR and are the main point of contact to the Stakeholder Managers for all financial information, including both routine and ad-hoc requirements, related to a single or a group of Legal Entities. They are accountable (for a given Legal Entity or group of legal entities) for ensuring that financial reporting processes and controls in place within FMAR are fit for purpose and that the quality of the outputs produced as a result meets stakeholder requirements (accurate, timely, etc):

- They rely on process owners within FMAR and consider process outputs/ KPIs/dashboards in order to satisfy themselves with the outcome of the full set of FMAR processes for their entity

- They perform baseline analytical review to ensure that financial data from other Finance sources make sense but do not conduct assessments of controls in upstream functions (FO, Ops, PC, Risk, etc.) unless specific issues are detected in the LEC review.

- They represent the overall reporting and process results to the Stakeholder manager and, as required, to stakeholders Close Legal Entity books and records in accordance with local and group accounting policies and timelines and local and group materiality

- Ensure compliance with US, Swiss, IFRS and local GAAPs and regulatory reporting where applicable; the LEC will draw on the expertise of the Accounting Policy and Assurance Group (APAG) and the Stakeholder Managers as required

You Offer

- An understanding of key aspects associated with the financial statements and the notes to the financial statements of the legal entity;

- Knowledge of the key processes that feed the legal entity reporting-relevant data and the related hand-offs amongst other departments

- Knowledge of reporting systems and respective upstream feeds including an understanding of potential impacts on the end-to-end reporting flows

- Knowledge of the key processes for maintaining the accounting ledgers of the legal entity. The LEC must understand the data flows and related financial accounting controls for material and/ or higher risk balances within a legal entity's general ledger

- Knowledge of US, Swiss, IFRS and local GAAP accounting and regulatory requirements; Appropriate product knowledge

- Clear understanding and sponsorship of control standards by which the legal entity and firm is governed, including those established by the Pan Finance OpRisk Control & SOX 404 Compliance function and Knowledge of the control environment and specific accounting records is required