Analyst Legal Entity Control

The Legal Entity Control team is responsible for financial oversight of their legal entity, and is tasked with ensuring that a strong control environment exists as it relates to all businesses, products, and operational areas that impact the Legal Entity financials and regulatory reporting of the firm.

Job Summary

As an Analyst in the legal entity control team, you will be required to interact with multiple lines of business and internal stakeholders while learning legal entity controllership end-to-end.  The Analyst will liaise with the line of business finance teams, operations, and the Legal Entity Controller community to drive the Legal Entity agenda. 

Job responsibilities

• Legal entity accounting & control, including month-end close process, parent/child accounting, and equity pick-up
• Monitor the monthly consolidation of income statement and balance sheet
• Month-End analytical review of the legal entity to ensure completeness and accuracy of the financial statements and preparation of various reports, including contributions to the Monthly Controller’s Book, as well as Legal Entity and Line of Business financial commentary
• Develop and maintain financial reports and schedules and perform various control procedures to ensure the integrity of reported financial results
• Investigate, analyze, and resolve issues, and support ad-hoc requests for financial information received from across the firm
• Resolution & Recovery – review and confirm periodic financial and non-financial appendices
• General ledger balance reconciliation – Complete reconciliation of numerous general ledger accounts

Required qualifications, capabilities and skills

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance or related business field
• Proficient Excel and PowerPoint skills
• Proficient organizational and problem-solving skills
• Proficient verbal and written communication skills
• Comfortable liaising with business partners while building and maintaining relationships
• Ability to critically challenge with the goal of identifying control issues
• Show initiative; be able to work independently yet keep all parties apprised of key issues
• Ability to work on multiple priorities at the same time
• Ability to learn quickly and be comfortable to navigate various reporting systems/tools