This role provides an opportunity to interact with multiple lines of business and internal stakeholders while learning legal entity controllership end-to-end. The Associate will liaise with the line of business finance teams, operations, and the Legal Entity Controller community to drive the Legal Entity agenda.

Job responsibilities

Legal Entity accounting & Line of Business controller including month-end close process, parent/child accounting, equity pick up, review of inter-entity breaks, and unnatural general ledger balance monitoring. Participate in Firmwide legal entity reporting projects including infrastructure and process improvement efforts and other Controller initiatives as needed.

Month-End analytical review of the legal entity to ensure completeness and accuracy of the financial statements and preparation of various reports, as well as Legal Entity and line of business financial commentary and regulatory reporting requirements.

Investigation, analysis and resolution of issues and response to ad-hoc queries

• Assist in the Booking Model review and on-going Legal Entity Control Standard compliance monitoring
• Intercompany Activity Control including variance commentary
• Monitoring of the G/L including consolidation and netting
• Participate in Firmwide legal entity reporting projects including infrastructure and process improvement efforts and other Controller initiatives as needed
• FX exposure review and management
• Collaborate with the broader GPB Controllers team and assist in key project related deliverables
• Define testing & quality assurance requirements and run testing with a particular focus on automated testing solutions

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills.

• An interest in accounting and control processes
• Developing understanding of financial statement structures and US GAAP / IFRS or any local GAAP
• Comfort with daily, monthly, or quarterly reporting cycles and strict deadlines
• Experience using or willingness to learn SAP, MS Office suite
• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics (or related discipline) or equivalent experience
• 4/5 years’ working experience
• Shift Timing: EMEA/ Asia

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Working understanding of business intelligence tools (Tableau, Alteryx, Python, etc)