Job Description

Your responsibilities include:

Month End Close

• Legal Entity Controlling involving supervisory review of Balance Sheet, Income Statement & Off balance Sheet of Swiss PB and IB business mainly covering Loans, Deposits and Borrowings

• Local (Swiss) GAAP Reporting Governance for all Swiss IB & PB Entities

• Analytical review & variance commentary for Financial-Statements and coordinate with divisional controllers to understand the business rationale of movements. Ensure that accounting has been done as per accounting policies

• Perform disclosures for Loans, Deposits and Borrowings as per US GAAP and Swiss GAAP

• Support team with investigation and resolution of inter-company breaks. Ensuring that there are no unexplained / unidentified inter-company breaks

• Prepare legal entity package used for presentations to Legal Entity controllers and senior management

• Performing SoX sign off and ensuring appropriate substantiation for SOX and quality assurance review

• Addressing ad hoc queries from various partners and counterparties, e.g. Tax, Consolidation, internal and external auditors and divisional finance teams globally

• To drive process-improvements within areas under responsibility

Involvement in change & project initiatives

• Drive-Change projects or Policy Implementation Projects from LEC perspective to support any change initiatives, accounting policy changes or new reporting requirements for Swiss entities.

• Proactively support Organisational Change initiatives and constantly review processes for efficiencies by challenging status-quo of existing processes/practices

Your future colleagues

The Legal Entity Controllers sit in Financial & Management Accounting & Reporting (FMAR) and are the main point of contact to the Stakeholder Managers for all financial information, including both routine and ad-hoc requirements, related to a single or a group of Legal Entities.

FMAR's purpose is to support the Group Finance team and the Regional Legal Entity Finance teams in the fulfilment of their reporting and governance responsibilities via the delivery of materially accurate, policy- and GAAP-compliant core financials and baseline analytical review.

They are accountable (for a given Legal Entity or group of legal entities) for ensuring that financial reporting processes and controls in place within Financial & Management Accounting & Reporting (FMAR) are fit for purpose and that the quality of the outputs produced as a result meets stakeholder requirements (accurate, timely, etc).

We are a department which values Diversity and Inclusion (D&I) and is committed to realizing the firm's D&I ambition which is an integral part of our global cultural values.

Qualifications

To excel in this role, you should possess:

Professional Accountancy Qualification (CA or CPA) is essential

3-5 years of LEC or audit experience

Outstanding analytical and structured thinking and problem solving skills

Outstanding communication, collaboration and organising skills

Result oriented, dedicated, hardworking who can work on own initiative and can deliver on time under pressure

Dedication to fostering an inclusive culture and value diverse-perspectives