Financial Controller - Statutory Accounting | £70,000 - £75,000 | Investment Banking | London | Hybrid Working

Are you an experienced finance professional looking for an exciting challenge in a leading investment bank? Do you thrive in a dynamic, fast-paced environment where your expertise in financial control and statutory reporting will make a real impact?

This is a fantastic opportunity to work at the heart of the financial industry, ensuring regulatory compliance, optimising reporting processes, and collaborating with key stakeholders across the business.

Key Responsibilities:

• Drive the month-end close process, ensuring data integrity and accuracy across key financial products such as repos, bonds, loans, and derivatives.
• Conduct detailed ledger reconciliations, investigating and resolving discrepancies across multiple systems.
• Oversee SOX control documentation, ensuring compliance and enhancing financial reporting processes.
• Act as a key business partner to automation and robotics teams, driving efficiency in financial reporting.
• Support regulatory and statutory accounting requirements, ensuring financial statements meet compliance standards.
• Assist in the transition to a new general ledger system (Oracle BI), ensuring seamless integration and alignment with SOX and audit requirements.
• Work closely with Treasury, Product Control, and Regulatory teams to clear audit findings and improve hedge accounting controls.

What We're Looking For:

• A qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, or CIMA), ideally with experience in corporate or investment banking.
• Strong technical expertise in statutory accounting, financial controls within the corporate banking or investment banking sector
• Ability to analyse and optimise complex ledger reconciliation processes.
• Strong knowledge of financial systems is a plus especially Oracle
• Excellent stakeholder management skills with the ability to work across teams.

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