SEC / CFTC Consultant

Job description

Role & responsibilities

• Basic knowledge on month end closing process for any Legal entity, financial instruments reporting and disclosure as per US GAAP / IFRS.
• Basic working knowledge on month end reporting to SEC / CFTC returns
• Liaising with the entity Controllers to provide an understanding of financial reporting and month end closing process.
• Needs to understand the Business, Structure and Regulatory Reporting requirements of the Legal Entities assigned.
• Need to understand control and governance requirement from regulatory / financial reporting perspective

Key objectives critical to success:

• Ability to work to high degree of accuracy with logical and structured approach
• Ability to self-review, identify issues and investigate / escalate appropriately
• Ability communicate effectively with colleagues and build relationships within the department and across functions

Skills, experience, qualifications and knowledge required

• Should have strong analytical skills to be able to understand business & structure of the Legal Entities assigned to produce variance analysis for movements.
• Strong MS-Office Skills, Excellent Analytical and USGAAP Knowledge.
• Self starter, problem solver and ability to work with minimal supervision.
• Excel system skills and ability to learn organisation specific systems
• Chartered Accountant (CA, ACCA, ACA or equivalent)
• Experience of process, design and implementation
• Strong communication skills (written and verbal) and control minded focus
• Organised and methodical with attention to detail
• Well-developed PowerPoint and Excel skills. Additional knowledge of data transformation/visualisation tools also useful (e.g. Tableau/Alteryx)

Preferred candidate profile

CA or MBA background with accounting background. Role requires