Analyst - Product Control

Review and report Profit and loss from trading activities, and evaluate the accuracy of trader supplied valuations. This includes calculating and analyzing P&L, and explaining P&L movements.

• Provide daily net revenue inputs to the management reporting group.

• Month end actual vs reported review and reconciliation

• Liaise closely with multiple groups such as Operations, Technology, and Market Risk to resolve issues.

• Responsible for the proper accounting treatment of trading activity including preparing/posting journal entries and performing the month end general ledger accounting close

• Support process and system improvements through leading and participating in various project initiatives.

• Understand the process flows from front end systems to subledger into the General Ledger

• Ensure Compliance with Internal / external audit and regulatory requirements

• Provide ad-hoc reporting to senior management, and look to identify and develop other relevant management information (MI).

• Perform month end duties to ensure the general ledger is correct and the team as a whole complete all month end tasks within the necessary timeframes.

Skills  / Competencies required:

• 5 to 7 years of experience in Product Control or commensurate Finance/Accounting experience.

• Proven ability to rationalize and re-engineer complex, interlinked, spreadsheet based processes.

• Experience with identifying control gaps, and implementing changes to improve the control environment.

• Experience developing team members and managing the strengths and weaknesses or a group.

• Strong technical and analytical skills.  MS Excel expertise, ability to control and reconcile large data sets.

• Critical thinking and problem solving experience

• Organized and able to prioritize under tight and conflicting deadlines.