LEC- Vice President

You are a strategic thinker passionate about driving solutions in Legal Entity Controller. You have found the right team.

As a Vice President – Latin America Legal Entity Controllers within the WHEM team, you will play a crucial role in supporting Corporate Investment Banking Legal Entities across Latin America. Your responsibilities will include coordinating with the line of business finance teams, product controllers, operations, and the Legal Entity Controller community to advance the Legal Entity agenda.

Job Responsibilities:

• Embrace a role that offers a balanced mix of Legal Entity accounting and control on a monthly basis, including month-end close process, FX Trade Out, parent/child accounting, equity pick up, review of inter-entity breaks, cash breaks, and unnatural general ledger balance monitoring.
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders in Product Controllers, Financial Controllers, External Reporting, and business lines, gaining the opportunity to deepen your understanding of the Financial Statements and Regulatory Requirements.
• Manage the month-end analytical review of the legal entity to ensure completeness and accuracy of the financial statements and preparation of various reports, including Legal Entity and line of business financial commentary, Indirect Expenses budget analysis, and regulatory reporting requirements.
• Demonstrate strong organizational and teamwork skills, working closely with the wider team to compile succinct updates that are reflected in professional materials for various governance forums.
• Effectively partner and establish relationships across functions and levels to execute initiatives that contribute to working groups and Latam LEC Management and Strategy.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills: 

• Co-ordinate and manage the delivery of the LEC, including systems and reports for key Latam legal entities including preparation of filings like FR2314 and FIFEC030
• Co-ordinate and manage Investigation, analysis and resolution of issues and response to ad-hoc queries.
• Critically review and assist in the Booking Model and on-going Legal Entity Control Standard compliance monitoring.
• Ability to manage and take responsibility for own work, producing reliable, high-quality outputs to an agreed timeline. Good task management skills and ability to prioritize and work in tight deadlines.
• Ability to communicate clearly and have attention to detail, with the written and oral presentation skills to deliver clear messages for to the stakeholders across different functions and senior management.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills: 

• Chartered Accountant / MBA  with minimum 8 years’ experience preferably with financial services industry and experience of IFRS/US GAAP preferred
• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills, including an ability to prepare executive level presentations.
• Ability to multi-task and work well under pressure, with an ability to be flexible in a dynamic and challenging environment with advanced Excel and PowerPoint skills required.
• Strong accounting and analytical acumen, with ability to understand, produce and explain income statement and balance sheet content and variances
• Good experience in setting up and running successful governance forums.

Teamwork skills - Candidate must be flexible in work style and have the ability to collaborate with high-performing teams and individuals throughout the firm to accomplish common goals.