Financial Accountant

North Holland  ‐ Onsite
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Description

Financial Accountant

A Financial Accountant is urgently required for a long-term, lucrative project with a major Financial Services client in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

The Financial Accountant will work closely together with various departments within the processing chain (Front Office, Back Office/Operations, Finance, Risk Management, Product Control and the Group controller of client locations).

The Financial Accountant will be exposed to a complex, dynamic and international financial environment and play an active role in the day-to-day running of the business. As part of the Finance Global Service Centre the Financial Accountant will be dealing with financial products, systems, figures, reconciliation differences and will be active within the various projects concerning new financial products, meeting external regulations (IFRS, SOX, Basel2/3) and translating new business triggered by the Front Office to the product ledger and reconciliations.

The financial accounting centre within the Amsterdam office has a dual responsibility.

The department is responsible for financial accounting within Amsterdam and also for the financial accounting of the global Financial Markets and Bank Treasury entities, (currently processing FXMM, Capital Markets, Derivatives products in Europe, Asia and Americas).

The Financial Accountant will IDEALLY HAVE 65% + of the following skills and experience:

  • In depth knowledge regarding business administrations, Balance sheet, profit & loss, Dt/Cr, making journals, etc.
  • Knowledge of financial products such as foreign exchange, money market (Loans/deposits), derivatives (eg IRS, IRCS) and Fixed Income (Bonds repos).
  • Good bookkeeping skills
  • Good knowledge of MS Office Excel, SQL, Access, Word
  • Team player and able to work under pressure and meet deadlines
  • Knowledge of financial reporting requirements (IFRS, and DNB. Liquidity reporting)
  • Strong analytical skills and therefore able to bring structure in complex topics (dealing with details accurately checking the work of others).
  • Experience with working in large data processing organisations and with a hands-on mentality
  • Experience with agile/SCRUM methodology
  • Excellent knowledge of MS Excel, PivotTables so as to quickly standardize routine reports and to make them transferable for the department.
  • Knowledge of relational databases and SQL.
  • Knowledge of Hedge Accounting, Special Purpose Vehicles is an advantage.

The Financial Accountant will have responsibilities including the following:

  • Explaining relationships, the consequences of figures and anticipating potential issues
  • Support in translating, analysing, investigating requirements, wishes and development of business, regulators and client group requirements.
  • Performing complex analysis serving customers
  • Project support - facilitation/implementation of releases, and consequences for the systems.
  • Coordinating and organizing the various testing and migration of projects
  • Performing self-standing process analysis

This is an urgent requirement and interviews are scheduled for next week!

Start date
25/09/16
Duration
6 - 12 months+
(extension possible)
From
Gazelle Global Consulting
Published at
16.09.2016
Project ID:
1203849
Contract type
Freelance
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