Financial Controller
Hybrid Working – London – 2 days a week on site.
Financial Services
Lorien's leading banking client is looking for a Financial Controller to join them on a 6-month contact.
The ideal candidate will be a Qualified Accountant/Qualified by Experience, who has strong experience of working with Power BI/Excel (VLOOKUP’s/Pivot Tables) and knows Double Entry.
This role is based in London.
This role will be Via Umbrella.
Working in a Hybrid Model of a 4-day work week, with 2 days a week on site.
Key Skills and Experience
* Monitor back office to general ledger (BOGL) reconciliations
* Monitor control accounts (scope as defined by line manage)
* Nostro breaks investigate and assist resolution
* BOGL break. Investigation of often complex matters to determine if genuine (accounting is incorrect) or non-genuine (accounting is correct)
* BOGL breaks. Ensure assessment is well documented and with robust supporting evidence
* Control accounts identify the accounting that needs to be rectified.
* Raise manual accounting in accordance with procedures and policies where the general ledger is determined to be incorrect
* Manual accounting adheres to the applicable group procedure.
* Ensure regular follow-up of all open aged breaks and balances
* Ensuring that all controls are completed for key reporting dates.
* Complete all monthly quarterly reporting accurately and to agreed deadlines
* Escalate and bring to the attention of management any complex topics arising within the individual’s scope.
* Procedures to be written, up to date, and saved as required
* BEACON (control attestation tool) Ensure it is completed within deadlines for scope as defined by manager. Ensuring accurate, concise and relevant data is attached where required.
* Data quality. Identify and investigate deficiencies and report to relevant stakeholders
* Work collaboratively with relevant stakeholders to improve the reliability of the accounting data and controls.
* Develop a detail understanding of the accounting interface technical set-up to facilitate efficient resolution of identified control and data deficiencies.
* Support the manager of ad-hoc tasks as required.
Required Experience
* Qualified Accountant or Qualified through experience
* Comes from a Financial Services/High Street Banking background
* Competent use with IT systems to assess issues/root causes – recommend/implement efficiency improvements.
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