Full job description Financial Controller - Year-End Statutory Reporting - Banking
Excellent opportunity opens to join an International Bank as their new Financial Controller. You will be a key part in ensuring timely and accurate financial reporting, as well as supporting audit and control processes for the bank. This will be someone with hands-on experience in boutique environments, with a focus on year-end statutory reporting, financial reporting, and audit.
Annual Report and Statutory Reporting
*Support the preparation, review and coordination of year-end statutory reporting deliverables, ensuring compliance with applicable accounting, regulatory and corporate reporting requirements.
*Perform comprehensive qualitative and quantitative review of annual report disclosures, including primary financial statements, notes to the accounts, accounting policies, strategic report and other narrative disclosures.
*Ensure consistency and alignment between reported financial information, management commentary and supporting analysis.
*Coordinate inputs from multiple stakeholders and challenge content where necessary to improve clarity, accuracy and quality of external reporting.
*Act as a senior point of contact for the external auditors throughout the year-end audit process and address audit queries in a timely and professional manner, liaising with stakeholders across Finance, Risk, IT and business functions as necessary.
Financial Reporting and Control
*Review and challenge financial results, balance sheet reconciliations, journals and supporting schedules to ensure completeness, accuracy and compliance with accounting policies.
*Perform detailed analytical review of financial performance, identifying unusual trends, significant variances and potential reporting issues.
*Support the maintenance and enhancement of the financial control framework, ensuring robust governance, documentation and audit trails.
Finance Data Project
*Support the Finance data lead/SME in the implementation and enhancement of the enterprise data warehouse and associated reporting solutions.
*Review data models, reporting logic and calculations to ensure financial information is complete, accurate and fit for purpose.
*Lead finance participation in testing activities, including User Acceptance Testing (UAT), regression testing and post-implementation validation.
*Investigate data quality issues, root causes and control weaknesses, ensuring appropriate remediation actions are implemented.
*Champion a robust control framework through documentation standards and reconciliation controls across finance reporting processes.
*Take the initiative to investigate and propose and implement changes in reporting and control processes to ensure continuous improvement and efficiency.
Required Qualifications and Experience
*Qualified Accountant ideally ACA or ACCA with strong background in IFRS
*Strong controls background with experience in either external or internal audit, with experience in year end reporting
*Good knowledge of various finance activities including financial control, tax & cost control.
*Strong knowledge of data lineage
*Experience in contributing to finance change / transformation or data enrichment project.
*Good data and numeracy skills with attention to detail with ability to maintain accuracy at all times
*Good communication and interpersonal skills, ability to communicate technical /complex matters to colleagues across all levels of the organisation
*The ability to work autonomously and take initiative in particular building / developing new processes and controls as the Bank’s systems or business change and evolve
*Strong organisational skills with the ability to ensure efficiency whilst balancing priorities
Interested? Please Apply!
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