Junior Accounts AVP 6 month Contract ID9
Mar 14, 2025
Skills
Presentation Skills • Risk Management • Financial Services • IFRS • Banking • Pricing • Analysis Skills • Securities Law • Investment Banking • Relationship Management • Strategic Planning • Leadership Experience
The Role
Presentation Skills • Risk Management • Financial Services • IFRS • Banking • Pricing • Analysis Skills • Securities Law • Investment Banking • Relationship Management • Strategic Planning • Leadership Experience
Junior Accounts AVP – Contract ID9AD
(JD and Skills 6 months backfill AVP) MAIN PURPOSE OF THE ROLE
Support and contribute to the management and reporting of the Bank’s expenses portfolio. This includes planning process for budgeting; ensuring expense data to be at its most accurate, complete and timely. Forming effective partnerships with all departments within Bank, in EMEA, Head Office as well as our external auditors to seamlessly manage the complete expenses portfolio.
Primary activities include (but are not limited to):
SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
(JD and Skills 6 months backfill AVP)
Support and contribute to the management and reporting of the Bank’s expenses portfolio. This includes planning process for budgeting; ensuring expense data to be at its most accurate, complete and timely. Forming effective partnerships with all departments within Bank, in EMEA, Head Office as well as our external auditors to seamlessly manage the complete expenses portfolio.
Primary activities include (but are not limited to):
- Detailed reconciliation of expenses to source invoices and liaising with business owners to ensure validity and accuracy of individual expense transactions.
- Review business reports to ensure accuracy in General Ledger including accruals processing to ensure reporting within the correct accounting period.
- Understanding the compositions of balances and preparing expense related monthly closing journals ledger adjustments.
- Invoicing and following up on cash remittance for services carried out in London on behalf of EMEA offices.
- Expense analysis and commentary to explain movements to Senior Management.
- Supporting business units in expense budgeting and MI reporting processes
- Testing new business intelligence tools and assisting in the development of automated reporting solutions
- Responding to various expense related queries.
- Half yearly Variable Interest Entity reporting.
- Preparation of Financial Accounting Reports in order to support the Bank in meeting its deadlines to its various stakeholders.
- Quarterly and semi-annual Japanese GAAP and US GAAP reporting preparation and review ensuring complete, accurate and timely preparation and submission of reports and following up with auditor queries.
- Adhoc projects
- Good working knowledge of Microsoft Office (Excel, Word and Access)
- Good exposure to accounting software packages.
- Good written and verbal skills
- Excellent communication skills
- Results driven, with a strong sense of accountability
- A proactive, motivated approach.
- The ability to operate with urgency and prioritize work accordingly
- Strong decision making skills, the ability to demonstrate sound judgement
- A structured and logical approach to work
- Strong problem solving skills
- A creative and innovative approach to work
- Excellent attention to detail and accuracy
- A calm approach, with the ability to perform well in a pressurized environment
