Finance Analyst - Interest Rate Redress

London  ‐ Onsite
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Description

My client a leading global bank, is looking for an experienced Finance Analyst to join the organisation's Finance and Modelling work-stream for the SME derivative miss-selling review programme.

Responsibilities

  • Updating and validating historic cash-flow data for affected trade population
  • Investigating reconciling differences between historic cash-flow data and Nostro accounts
  • Communication of status/updates to Finance/Modelling project management team and Work-stream Lead (as appropriate)
  • Liaising with Global IT team to obtain and refresh cash-flow data from trade booking systems (Summit) on a regular basis
  • Liaising with appropriate experts to resolve issues as they arise (eg Technical Accounting Team, Pricing Team, Business Heads, Global IT)
  • Supporting wider Finance/Modelling work-stream activities (eg Provision Analysis)
  • Performing daily review of control checks on trade bookings, balance sheet and P&L impact from execution of client redress payments
  • Providing support on month-end financial reporting tasks for the project (such as analysis on redress costs, FX sell-off, balance sheet substantiation, risk and tax reporting)
  • Providing support to Finance lead on ad hoc requests, including provision calculations and in depth analysis of MoM movements.

Requirements

  • ACA or CIMA qualification.
  • Project planning and execution, including:
  • Ability to react to change in scope/timeline and re-plan/prioritise accordingly
  • Experience of working in a high pressured environment
  • Experience in working across a wider team, ensuring appropriate handoff between work streams
  • Ability to use Microsoft Access (non-development)
  • Advanced Microsoft Excel skills.
  • Strong numeric and analytical skills with ability to understand and interpret complex information and recognise patterns and trends from set of data and to be able to articulate these to senior management.
  • Motivated self-starter with flexible approach and complex problem solving ability.
  • In depth understanding of accounting principles in relation to fair value, accrual and hedge accounting.
  • Delivery focused with close attention to detail
  • Previous exposure to derivative products (interest rate derivatives preferred)
Allegis Group Limited and Aston Carter Limited operate Employment Businesses and Agencies and are companies within the Allegis Group Inc. group of companies, the fourth largest staffing company in the world, (collectively referred to as the "Allegis Group"). TEKsystems and Aerotek are divisions of Allegis Group Limited. Applicant data will be treated in accordance with the Allegis Group's Privacy Notice). By submitting personal data to any company or division within the Allegis Group, the applicant is providing explicit consent to the use of such data by the Allegis Group and to the transfer of such data to and from the Allegis Group companies within the UK, Europe and outside the European Economic Area in connection with the fulfilment of the applicant's voluntary requests, and the fulfilment of other job opportunities that match the applicant's profile, and confirms that they may be contacted about such job opportunities.

Start date
ASAP
From
Aston Carter
Published at
23.07.2015
Project ID:
950887
Contract type
Freelance
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