Finance Capital Markets Products Controller

Job Description

ob description: The Finance Capital Markets Products Controller mission is to ensure the reliability, sincerity, integrity and the exhaustiveness of the accounting delivered by the upstreams chains (Front to Back) and organisation (Operations – Back and Middle Office). This position works within the business that encompasses research, structuring, trading and sales of equity, index and fund derivatives.

Responsibilities:
▪ Ensure the accounting control level one on a dedicated perimeter of products within your team and ensure proper justification on all accounting control, among which is reconciliation with operations data inventory and reconciliation of sensitives accounts.

▪ Analyse breaks and operational or financial risks, as well as monitoring and follow-up of discrepancies resolution and manage escalations to the management if needed.

▪ Ensure a good collaboration with all partners and animate the relation by anticipating any know issues (pre-closing), as well as ensure fluid communication during closing period and formalize issues and present them in order to avoid them next time (post-closing).

▪ Contribute to continuous improvement of the control set-up and ensure permanent  evolutions are realized in order to avoid manual adjustment.

▪ Formalization of team procedures and operating guides, which include: participation of training and coaching for new joiners; formalization of on-boarding materials; and active participation in management and department staff meetings.

▪ Contribute or lead projects related to the efficiency of the processes and systems, as well as propose new developments or improvements in the existing chain, in order to secure the processes and reduce the operational risk.

▪ Contribute to the Finance Arbitrage major project: replacement of the current General Ledger CODA with the Group Ledger OFS and assist on other Business & regulatory projects, which include: contribute to OFS project during the different phases (requirements/testing/shadow production/controls); participate to the training on the new tools and processes with OFS; and assist and control on Other Business & Regulatory projects in collaboration with the project team (participation to requirements/testing/specific control post migration or go-live).                                                                                                                                  

Main Tasks:

• Collect all the team's needs related to automation and propose efficiencies
• Conduct the study and propose the recommendation of the IT solutions 
• Integrate and industrialize IT solutions 
• Qualify and resolve incidents and contribute to the resolution of problems
•  Act as a reference in the function and capitalize on the gathered experience to share knowledge, train and coach others                           

Technical Skills:

• Information technology - IT Knowledge
• Background experience with SQL, Python, PowerBI and Tableau                        

Language Skills

• English-3 Expert
• French- 1 Notions