Business Financial Control Product Associate-Global Mortgages and Securitized Products Trading

Job Description:

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Job Description:
This job is responsible for supporting business analysis for a Line of Business (LOB) by producing all financial reporting and disclosures in partnership with senior management, front office, and other business stakeholders. Key responsibilities include applying knowledge of product(s), processes, and inherent risks for a product, business or function to analyze and substantiate Profit and Loss (P&L) attributes and balance sheets, assist in production of regulatory matters analysis, and perform critical testing and calculations.

Team Overview:

• The Chief Financial Officer (CFO) Group is responsible for the overall financial management of our company. This includes accounting, financial and regulatory reporting, balance sheet management, financial planning and analysis, treasury, investor relations, corporate investments and tax.
• Global Banking and Markets Finance strives to be a valued business partner to the company's trading, corporate and institutional banking businesses. Their first priority is to operate a series of key control processes to ensure the integrity of GBAM's financial results. Then they build on these activities to offer performance insight to business leaders
• Business Finance Officers/Control (BFO/BFC) partners directly with Front Office LOBs providing strategic guidance and insight and performs the product control function to ensure the integrity of financial results
• The team supports the Global Mortgages and Securitized Products Business.  The business makes markets in Agency RMBS (Pass-Throughs and CMOs), Non-Agency RMBS, CDOs, ABS, and CMBS.  The business also originates Residential loans, Commercial Real Estate loans and other Asset Based / Private Credit lending activities.   

The proposed Business Finance and Controller ("BFC") role will support daily control functions within the Global Mortgages and Securitized Products Trading space.  Product coverage will span across multiple Trading desks covering Agency and Non-Agency products. The Product Controller will support:

• Daily Balance Sheet analysis and commentary, P&L substantiation to market events, significant transaction review
• Valuation Control including fair value leveling and Valuation Adjustments.
• Monthly close functions, processing of journal entries, accounting adjustments, reconciliations, reserve and valuation adjustment calculations
• Partnering with Trading Desk, Trade Support, Operations, ECM and other partners on business support including new product review, accounting assessment, issue resolution
• Quarterly management and regulatory reporting including fair value disclosures, rollforwards, revenue/balance sheet variance commentary
• Volcker/Capital related validation activities such as Volcker balance sheet review, validation of Volcker and Capital attributes for books to ensure compliance with enterprise guidelines
• Working on initiatives to simplify/automate manual processes

Responsibilities:

• Supports with preparing and analyzing balance sheets and Profit and Loss (P&L) reports and validates postings and balances for a product aligned to a Line of Business (LOB) using knowledge of financial products, market risk profiles, and risk mitigation techniques and strategies

• Performs month-end close and financial reporting, critical testing and calculations, and periodic analysis

• Assists in the development of strategic and annual planning efforts and implementations and performs profitability analysis, forecasting, and financial reporting for a product or general ledger account type

• Partners closely with the front office, Operations, and Technology to support defining business finance processe