Job Description

Intercompany Controller – Associate

Division: Finance Job Title: Intercompany Controller

Location: Mumbai Job Level: Associate

 

Company Profile

 

Client is a leading global financial services firm providing a wide range of investment banking, securities, investment management and wealth management services. The Firm's employees serve clients worldwide including corporations, governments and individuals from more than 1,200 offices in 43 countries. As a market leader, the talent and passion of our people is critical to our success.

 

The Finance Division globally reports to the Chief Financial Officer and consists of some 3,000 employees worldwide. Finance protects the Client franchise by serving as guardian of the Firm’s books and records, and by contributing to firm wide risk management and risk reduction. This division maintains relationships with Client’s various industry and government regulators, and also serves as the conduit of financial information to the outside investment community. Finance plays a critical role as advisor to Client’s various businesses and its senior management team.

 

Team Profile

 

Global Corporate Controllers is responsible for the financial and regulatory reporting of the consolidated Firm and its legal entities, liquidity and funding control, accounting and regulatory policy and advisory, controllership of the Firm’s infrastructure areas and management the Finance risk and change programs.

 

The Intercompany Controllers team is responsible for controlling both the Treasury departments unsecured funding of the Firm’s Legal Entities and intercompany transactions that arise through non-trading and non-funding related activities e.g. transfer pricing.

 

The team performs a range of functions including daily reporting of unsecured funding loan balances, monthly substantiation of interest P&L and balance sheet and facilitating the settlement of intercompany balances. The team is also engaged in project and process improvement work in addition to ad hoc requests from the Corporate Treasury desk and other Controller groups. In this regard the team interacts with Operations, IT, Tax, Legal Entity Controllers, Corporate Treasury and Treasury Controllers colleagues globally.

 

Primary Responsibilities

 

An opportunity has arisen for a contractual role within the team primarily for a funding renovation project. The successful individual will work as part of the Intercompany Controller team and the role will include the following involvement and responsibilities:

· Daily / Weekly Responsibilities:

o Infrastructure set-up for the funding renovation initiative.

o Preparation/review of daily controls and remediation of breaks / issues

o Preparation and submission of daily unsecured funding loan balance reporting

o Validation and sign-off of daily P/L and currency hedging

o Escalation of significant issues and proposed resolutions

· Monthly / Quarterly Responsibilities:

o Prepare month end journals

o Prepare monthly intercompany settlements ahead of processing

o Prepare various monthly and quarterly reporting

· Project/Ad hoc Responsibilities:

o Support other initiatives to enhance processes and workflows.

o Interaction with Corporate Treasury, Operations, IT, and other key finance groups; frequent interaction with global Treasury Capital Markets controller teams as needed.

 

This is not an exhaustive list of tasks, and responsibilities may change in line with the team and business needs.

 

Skills required

 

· 2 - 4 years industry experience with focus on Finance/Controller background

· Strong communication skills, both verbal and written

· Demonstrable leadership qualities with a strong work ethic and team player mentality

· Ability to plan and execute against tight timeframes

· Strong organizational skill and strategic thinking

· Analytical mind-set and good problem solving skills with a willingness to drill through to the root cause of issues

· Strong controls background with an ability to design, implement, enhance, and monitor the effectiveness of existing or new controls.

· Strong accounting background with project execution capability.