Financial Controller - Analyst

The Emerging Markets group focuses on supporting clients with operations based south of the United States including but not limited to Mexico, Colombia, Brazil, Chile, and Peru.  This role has high exposure to senior leaders and offers a challenging space that works closely with the business and partner controller groups to support its operations.  If you enjoy solving complex problems, working with big datasets, and working with a global support team this is the role for you.

 As a Financial Controller - Analyst within Corporate Controllers, you will primarily focus on ensuring the accuracy, integrity and timeliness of the Firm’s books and records, with an emphasis on reconciliation of general ledger, risk management systems, operating systems and infrastructure controls across the entire lifecycle of the trading business. Some of the most common functions and activities you will own are balance sheet and P&L reconciliation, balance sheet substantiation, inter-entity control & governance, and month end close processes. Close communication with product control and legal entity controllers teams to coordinate the monthly BS & PL close.

Job responsibilities:

• Help supporting a specific line of business within the Corporate & Investment Bank such as Currencies & Emerging Markets, Rates, Credit Trading, Securitized Products Group, Equities, and Risk
• Work closely with various line of business controllers, middle office, business managers, technology, and operations
• Understand end-to-end flow of trading activities, booking models, product configurations, and trade economics to apply relative accounting policies and enhance control framework
• Be responsible for the integrity and accuracy of line of business income statement and balance sheet at month, quarter, and year-ends
• Engage in line of business initiatives and projects, be the financial control subject matter expert
• Identify process and/or infrastructure enhancements and work with stakeholders to enact change
• Oversee preparation of the firm's primary financial statements at quarter-end for use in the earnings release and Securities Exchange Commission filings
• Control post-closing entries and consolidation adjustments
• Perform various control procedures to ensure the integrity of reported financial results
• Manage intercompany eliminations, a key component of the financial consolidation process
• Enhance the overall control environment around the financial reporting function; mobilize change wherever possible in order to simplify processes and enhance controls

 Required Qualifications, Skills, and Capabilities:

• Bachelor’s degree required
• Minimum of 1 year of related experience including reporting and month end close responsibilities, general ledger exposure and understanding of financial products  
• Comfortable liaising with business and risk managers
• Able to build and maintain partnerships within the various product aligned businesses and across other corporate financial, treasury, and accounting groups
• Able to understand business drivers and requirements and influence middle and front office partners to deliver solutions to business issues and problems
• Strong analytical skills: Ability to quickly understand workings of a complex processing system and general ledger systems across the infrastructure and their interrelationships and dependencies
• Excellent desktop/spreadsheet/database skills and excellent organizational and problem-solving skills, verbal, and written communication skills
• Able to multi-task in a constantly changing environment and the Ability to critically challenge with the goal of identifying control issues