Product Controller
£55000 - £65000 (dependant on experience) + Bonus + Excellent Benefits
City

THE COMPANY

They are a growing investment bank with 200 employees providing a wide range of services to institutions and corporate clients including equity market making, equity research, corporate advisory, corporate finance and sales trading. They have a commercial culture but are also collegiate and promote excellence in everything they do. They now have an excellent opportunity for a talented qualified accountant with product control experience to join the finance team of 7.

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE REQUIRED

  • Fully qualified accountant ACCA, CIMA, ACA with financial services industry experience gained in-house within product control
  • Ability to work independently and effectively within a team;
  • Attention to detail;
  • Proactive;
  • Strong communication skills;
  • Good analytical skills;
  • Good technical accounting knowledge;
  • Good problem solving skills;
  • Commercial awareness.

THE ROLE

The Finance department covers a broad scope of financial planning, recording, controlling and reporting activities from transactional accounting through to the provision of analysis and forecasting for decision- making. The department supports senior management in exercising budgetary and financial control in pursuit of the company's strategic objectives. Reporting to the Management & Financial Reporting Manager, the Product Controlerl is responsible for the preparation and analysis of trading financial reporting within the Finance department.

  • Producing daily profit and loss reports for all business area of the firm (including inventory valuations, market commentary, P&L break analysis and investigation);
  • Daily FX exposure monitoring and reporting;
  • Monthly preparation of trade-related schedules (including reconciliation between sub-ledger and main ledger);
  • Modelling and understanding of Firm wide trading and settlement costs (including forecasting and any cost allocations);
  • Periodic management reporting on trading asset holdings (including reporting on types of instruments, Fair value hierarchy and carrying out independent price verification);
  • Oversight of the monthly trading balance sheet reconciliation and substantiation (including balance sheet substantiation policy and procedures);
  • Provide support to the budgeting and forecasting process;
  • Trade-related balance sheet reconciliation and substantiation;
  • Build and maintain relationships with both brokers and traders;
  • Preparation of various financial statements disclosures (including any notes referencing valuations and Fair value hierarchy);
  • Ad hoc queries and project related work.