VP - Legal Entity Controller

VP Legal Entity Controller

Managing a team of financial accountants (8 team members)

- Executing and managing the business as usual (BAU) control and financial accounting processes for a number of entities

- The preparation of the statutory accounts and liaison with auditors within deadlines,

- Working with various departments (Front Office, Product Control, Tax and Legal) to support the Front Office in implementing new business transactions. Often the transactions are complex in nature involving GAAP interpretation and linking with practical accounting / system challenges

- Preparation of monthly financial summaries and variance analysis

- Preparing monthly / quarterly governance packs and presenting in the governance calls

- Managing ad hoc queries from various departments, for example, Group, Tax, Front Office, Legal, internal and external auditors

- Manage and ensure SOX compliance for relevant process

Business as usual (BAU) financial accounting covers:

- preparation of Group reporting submissions

- maintaining accounting records in accordance with local GAAP, IFRS and US GAAP requirements

- responsibility for all month-end processes and procedures, including journals, data analysis, integrity checks and financial summaries

- checking and monitoring the daily integrity of the ledger by clearing suspense and control accounts on a timely basis

- bank reconciliations

- preparation of journals to ensure the accuracy of the ledger for month end closings

- account owner or reconciler for finance owned accounts

- liaison with Treasury on Fx related issues

- liaison with Product Control on trade related issues

- liaising with various support departments, the Tax department and external and internal auditors

- account balance reconciliation preparation and actioning reconciling items

- setting up / closing of legal entities in the general ledger

- executing manual paymentswiss reporting module (ADAC) correctly.

- Population of the monthly, quarterly and yearly disclosures in to ADAC including the detailed explanation of significant balance moves.

- Production of annual IFRS GAAP published financial statements.

- Liaising with the entity regulatory reporting group. Includes having an understanding of the regulatory reporting process and ensuring that a hand off of the financial numbers to the regulatory group.

- Reconciliation of FA owned account ownership balances.

- Assist with ad-hoc projects to improve processes within the FA line for both US GAAP and IFRS

- Assist with implementation and testing of new processes/systems in FA

- Reconciliation of trade level data to the general ledger.

- Participate in the defect management and prioritization process.

- Liaising with product control on an ad-hoc basis

- Liaising with auditors on queries

Essential's:

Experience: 10+ years post qualification.

Qualification: CA

Strong working knowledge of IFRS, GAAP.