The Role
As a Financial Reporting & Control Specialist, you will be instrumental in ensuring the accuracy, compliance, and effective management of the client's financial data and reporting processes across several key areas.
Core Responsibilities
Data Analysis & Validation: Analyze and validate incoming financial data against relevant trends and developments, continuously monitoring its accuracy and completeness. Proactively identify data issues, pinpoint the source, and collaborate with relevant departments or Back-Offices to resolve them.
Accounting Oversight: Perform checks and evaluations of internal account usage (e.g., suspense accounts, active accounts) by various business lines, including reconciling discrepancies between individual and general ledger entries. Contribute to ensuring correct account management and system coordination, with checks extending from source systems to cross-border reporting.
Reporting & Control: Deliver a standardized set of reports that meet the needs of the company and the wider Group. Focus on streamlining information flows to produce a clear, unequivocal set of financial figures. Manage the End-to-End (E2E) process, from controlling back-office activities and entries to explaining the balance sheet and profit and loss accounts.
Consolidation: Compile various internal and external financial reports required for the delivery of the annual accounts.
Procedural Improvement: Participate actively in updating administrative/operational procedures, internal control processes, and measures within the Accounting, Reporting, Control, and Consolidation functions. Identify problems, suggest improvements, and translate new laws, legislative amendments, or Group rules into specific system requirements.
Principal Accountabilities
Manage the assembly of monthly and ad hoc reports, ensuring timely monthly closing.
Perform balance reconciliations with reporting systems and monitor data consistency across different files and accounts.
Provide clear and insightful commentary on reports.
Participate in projects related to departmental matters, such as the implementation of new financial regulations or the treatment of new cross-border products and services.
