Financial Controller - Associate

You are a strategic thinker passionate about driving solutions in Financial Control. You have found the right team.

As a Financial Controller Associate in our Finance team, you will spend each day defining, refining and delivering set goals for our firm. You will be responsible for financial oversight of our legal entity and you will be 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 Responsibilities:

• Perform Legal Entity accounting and control on a monthly basis, including the month-end close process, parent/child accounting, equity pick-up, review of inter-entity breaks, and monitoring of unnatural general ledger balances.
• Conduct month-end analytical reviews of the legal entity to ensure completeness and accuracy of financial statements, and prepare various reports, including contributions to the Monthly Controller’s Book, as well as Legal Entity and line of business financial commentary and regulatory reporting requirements.
• Investigate, analyze, and resolve issues, and respond to ad-hoc queries.
• Assist in the Booking Model review and ongoing Legal Entity Control Standard compliance monitoring.
• Control intercompany activity, including variance commentary.
• Monitor the G/L, including consolidation and netting.
• Participate in firmwide legal entity reporting projects, including infrastructure and process improvement efforts and other Controller initiatives as needed.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills:

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance or related business field
• Minimum 3 years finance/accounting – related experience
• Strong accounting and analytical acumen, with ability to understand, produce and explain income statement and balance sheet content and variances
• Superior attention to detail
• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills, including an ability to prepare executive level presentations
• Ability to work effectively with others, as well as act as an effective liaison with all business partners within the lines of business or legal entity chains
• Strong initiative and work ethic
• Ability to multi-task and work well under pressure, with an ability to be flexible in a dynamic and challenging environment
• Advanced Excel and PowerPoint skills required

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills:

• CPA a plus, but not required