Description
Secured Funding Product Controller - Temporary Role - Glasgow
Fantastic opportunity for a temporary finance analyst to join a leading financial services organisation. We will consider candidates that are looking for their first professional role after graduating or looking to build on their current professional experience within the finance environment.
The role includes daily P&L production, month end substantiation and regular interaction with the Business Unit and Operations to discuss any queries, implement the necessary structure to support new activity and manage stakeholder expectations. This opportunity requires an ability to be able to deal with high volume and high value transactions, manage stakeholders, and drive continuous improvement.
Specific Responsibilities:
Perform daily P&L substantiation
Performing month-end certification processes over Balance Sheet and Profit and Loss accounts.
Investigation of reconciliation differences, establishing explanations for accurate system adjustments within tight timescales and ensuring documentation to required standard of evidence.
Understanding the business and products; providing a point contact for control based queries.
Various initiatives including redesign of internal processes to improve the control framework, system enhancements etc.
Escalate appropriately risk issues as and when they arise.
Skills Required:
The successful candidate should be committed and self-motivated who can demonstrate initiative and problem solving abilities.
Excellent organisational skills and the ability to work to tight deadlines.
Demonstrate an understanding of account assertions and concepts of audit evidence.
Candidates should possess excellent Microsoft Excel skills and be proficient in data mining and summarising and presenting themes and results in a meaningful format.
Knowledge of financial products which are used in the financial services industry, in particular Stock Lending, would be preferred.
Candidates should be highly numerate with a close attention to detail, and demonstrate a strong commitment to developing your own skills.