eFinancialCareers

• Company

  Charterhouse Partnership

• Location

  Singapore

• Compensation

  Attractive

• Position Type

  Employee

• Employment type

  Full time

• Updated

  18 Nov 2008

• eFC Ref no

  483479

Our client is an established and stable European bank. Due to recent acquisition of businesses in Asia, our client is looking for a dynamic qualified accountant to join their Equities Financial Control team.

The role within Financial Control will comprise:

• Completion of the monthly inter-company reconciliation report and other reconciliations and presentation of these at the monthly Letter of Representation meeting.
• Ensuring that all reporting is compliant with IFRS and Group reporting requirements.
• Preparation of quarterly reporting package for submission to Group including analyses of financial statement movements
• Dealing with ad hoc queries from management, Group, the auditors and other interested parties.
• Ad hoc projects such as reporting and process reviews and system testing.

The successful candidate must be solid with accounting fundamentals be a clear and confident communicator, and be able to work within a team environment as well as autonomously. It will be encouraged that the successful candidate challenges the current processes to identify inefficiencies and control weaknesses in order to subsequently improve upon them.

In addition, you will need the following:

• Graduated (Finance / Commerce) with strong grades (A’s and B’s) from a reputable university; good Honours degree highly preferred
• First time passes. Qualified accountant – CA, CPA (or equivalent)
• 2 - 4 years of working experience in: Investment banks, first or second tier accounting firms or, other financial services firms
• Good financial accounting knowledge.
• Strong control awareness - in particular, the individual should be able to identify an initiatives which they have led which has directly improved the control environment for the area they work in.
• Enjoy working in a high pressure and challenging environment
• Be autonomous
• Be diligent in adhering to tight deadlines
• Have the ability to multi-task
• Preferably experienced SAP user