LEC- Associate

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

As a LEC- Associate in our Finance team, you will spend each day defining, refining and delivering set goals for our firm. 

Job Responsibilities:

• Produce key disclosures contained within the UK statutory financial statements, including audit support and files.

• Take full responsibility for preparing IFRS 9 disclosures and lead as the key point of contact for UK reporting, attending all working group meetings and disseminating information across the wider function (LEC and Regulatory reporting) as required.

• Support technical UK GAAP/IFRS accounting analyses, including accounting memos and templates.

• Support various projects and initiatives impacting the legal entity, including product, Infrastructure, Regulatory, Compliance, and other business-driven initiatives.

• Build and manage relationships with key stakeholders, including PwC, Product Control, Tax, Regulatory Reporting, Technology, and Corporate teams, to enable effective coordination of the process.

• Identify and drive enhancements to current processes.

• Work closely with PwC auditors to ensure issues are resolved and deadlines are met.

• Prepare board reports and present the statutory financial statements to the board of directors.

• Coordinate various statutory financial statements production and audit tasks, and support the team on various initiatives.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills :

• Basic understanding of investment bank financial accounting and products.
• Ability to work under considerable time pressure, whilst maintaining a high level of accuracy and quality.
• Excellent communication and organisational skills and an ability to build relationships with key stakeholders.
• Strong analytical ability, being able to discuss legal entity and business results and issues with senior management and various stakeholders across the Firm.
• Desire to learn, develop an understanding of challenging accounting concepts and new/complex products.
• Ability to partner and influence across businesses and other support groups.
• Control focus mind-set at all times, whilst respectively challenging the status quo.
• Attention to detail whilst being cognizant of materiality levels.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills:

• Part - Qualified accountant (i.e. CA, ACCA, CPA, CIMA etc.) with at least 4 years Industry Experience.