ROLE TYPE- 18 MONTH GRADUATE SCHEME
TITLE - FINANCE/PRODUCT CONTROLLER
LOCATION - CENTRAL - MANCHESTER UK
ASAP START
SALARY - STARTING £25K RISING TO £30K AFTER 6 MONTHS, THEN £32.5K AFTER ANOTHER 6 MONTHS.
We are a leading Consultancy dealing with Top Investment Banks and Buy-Side Financial Services Businesses. Their areas of specialism include Process Engineering, Data Operations, Front-Back Office Operations, Regulatory Compliance, Finance and Risk.
They are focused on recruiting the brightest graduate talent. They hire people with passion that demonstrate that they have what it takes to succeed in the Financial Services industry. Through their experience we have created the Advantage Accelerator Programme, this unique Model delivers formal training, personal development and mentoring to create high calibre, highly skilled Professionals.
What you'll do
As a Graduate/ Product Financial Controller, you’ll establish and maintain strong working relationships with key customers and stakeholders, and deliver high quality and consistent financial, statutory, and management reporting outputs. You’ll comply with relevant policies and consider and escalate the adequacy and effectiveness of the business’s controls on a regular basis.
You’ll also undertake reconciliations, accounting, MI and control activities to support the ledger close, reconciliation, substantiation and statutory and external reporting ensuring the integrity of monthly, quarterly and annual financial information.
Day to day, you’ll:
· Participate as an attendee or member in various committees
· Support or lead change initiatives, process improvements and in system implementations
· Prepare month-end accounting, such as journals preparation, reviews and account reconciliation
· Investigate process or system issues
· Support or lead systems testing, such as user acceptance testing and system or process improvement initiatives
· Provide support to internal and external auditors throughout the reporting period
(PLEASE NOTE - LIKE MOST OTHER GRADUATE SCHEMES, THERE WILL BE A TRAINING BOND ATTACHED TO THIS VACANCY. THIS WILL ONLY BE PAYABLE SHOULD YOU DECIDE TO LEAVE THE GRADUATE SCHEME BEFORE THE 18 MONTHS IS UP. THIS IS EFFECTIVELY AN INSURANCE POLICY TO US TO ENSURE THAT THE CANDIDATE TAKES THE OPPORTUNITY SERIOUSLY AND WE ARE SELECTING DEDICATED PEOPLE FOR OUR CLIENTS. WE WANT TO ENSURE THAT YOU WILL SEE OUT THE PROGRAMME AND MAKE THE MOST OF THE OPPORTUNITY. )
Requirements
* To succeed in this role, you’ll bring experience in core financial control delivery and reporting outputs, including ledger close, balance sheet substantiation, statutory and management reporting and external audit.
* Strong Data and excel skills; tableau would be great
* You’ll have experience in or be willing to explore current and future finance technologies such as Oracle, Tableau or Python.
* Ideally, you’ll already have a finance, accounting, economics or similar degree or an accounting qualification.
Benefits
* 18 month graduate training scheme in a leading bank
* Hybrid working
* Competitive Salary
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