Description
Product Controller
Chester
9 Months Contract
My client is a leading successful Investment Bank and we are currently recruiting on their behalf for a Product Controller to work in Chester.
The successful candidate will gain knowledge and experience of multiple Equity trading desks. The role will involve exposure to multiple different products; swaps, equities, ADRs, options, futures, repos etc and it is expected that the successful candidate will gain a detailed working knowledge of these products in time. The role will offer significant opportunities to challenge the status quo and implement/standardise new procedures and processes in a controlled fashion. In time it is expected that the candidate will take on managerial responsibility for a relatively junior team on site including objective setting and performance reviews. The role will be wide in breadth and scope and will offer the successful candidate a platform to build a successful career in financial services with the bank
Responsibilities
- This is a hire within the Equity Product Control Finance team.
- Completion and oversight of core daily tasks including P&L & Balance Sheet explain and Front to back reconciliation
- Being a direct point of contact for the trading desks
- Completion of month end P&L and balance sheet close - review of reconciliations, investigation of differences between reported and ledger numbers and review of accounting journal entries.
- The requirement to proactively challenge the status quo of the current range of P&L product control functions and contribute to additional ad hoc projects and queries as they arise
Skills and Experience
- Qualified Accountant - ACA, ACCA or CIMA (or equivalent)
- Strong PnL experience
- Experience of generic accounting processes - Month End, Journal Posting, Balance Sheet Reconciliations, General Ledger etc
- Experience in large corporate client
- Ideally, experience with in Product Control
- Product experience - such as Equity Swaps, Prime Loans, Futures, Options, FX Trade, Repo Trades etc.