Description & Requirements
The Team delivers banking product controlling capabilities to clients around the world - multi-faceted group that partners with all areas of the division to support evolving markets and business requirements. The Product Control (PC) team is a global financial guardian of Banks’ trading and sales activities, ensuring broad and comprehensive, timely and accurate BS, P&L, (+ its analysis) on daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly basis.
Validation/valuation of trading portfolios would be part of a job. Cooperating with the businesses/new business product groups in integration and evaluation of the new products and businesses into financial arena in a meticulous way, delivery of reliable and significant financial information to the business managers, external business partners and other relevant internal and external stakeholders (including Front Office, Custodians, Brokers, Regulators, Legal and Compliance and other divisions).
Required skills:
- 2 years + in Bank, bank’s vendor or Big4 Product Control team.
- Solid analytical skills with ability to understand complex workflows paired with meticulous attention to detail.
- Good communication skills to clearly communicate issues.
- Basic knowledge of financial markets and bank processes and organizational structures (3LOD, FO/MO/BO).
- Basic knowledge of transaction systems and information systems (Bloomberg, Reuters).
- Ability to organise own work under time pressure.
- Readiness to help and cooperate with team & different departments.
- Good knowledge of Ms Excel, basic working knowledge of Ms Access.
- Bachelor’s degree in Quantitative /Statistics/ STEM.
- Some orientation in current trends on financial markets.
- Basic derivatives knowledge.
Best candidates would also possess some of the below:
- Some skills in practical valuation of financial instruments.
- Ability to learn / perform analysis of sensitivity to risk.
- Some knowledge of risk management.
- Basic working knowledge of SQL.
Few main areas the team is responsible for:
- Effectively contribute to preparation of daily, weekly, monthly P&L analysis report with explanation and commentary for senior management.
- Participate in key systems design, testing and implementations with a vision of recommending improvements, when possible.
- Manage and sustain key control processes with a view to improve process efficiency and accuracy.
- Provide information and analyses in response to ad-hoc needs from various teams.
- Identifying and recommending remediation solution for trade support, technology, financial control and other infrastructure areas to ensure timely & accurate reporting (BS, P&L).
- Responsible for M/E close process (BS, P&L reconciliation, ledger entries, commenting, FS reporting).
- Continuous professional grow and clear career path.
- Rapid knowledge development thanks to on-the-job trainings related to the area of expertise.
- Exposure to interesting advisory projects.
- Friendly work atmosphere and staff parties.
- Opportunity to be a part of global work-streams and cross-country projects.
- Attractive customized learning portfolio (professional designations and international certificates).
- Valuable relations for life: industry network & references from recognized professionals.
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