My client is a top tier international Investment Bank seeking to hire a Qualified Accountant to provide comprehensive Product Control support for Fixed Income, Products and Debt Capital Markets.
Main roles and responsibilities:
·To provide an effective link between FI Front Office and Finance
·To ensure immediate and direct superiors are kept adequately appraised of pertinent issues and developments and that key reconciliations are made available for manager review
·To be proactive in identifying process and control deficiencies
·To work with the direct line manager to improve the quality of decomp made available to FO
·To be part of a 4-person rotation system within FI PC that sees PC coordinate the FI morning meetings
·Having shared responsibility for various key and peripheral tasks such as M/E reporting, FX hedging of revenue, Day 1 P+L revenue sharing for primary new issues
·Resolving ad hoc P+L queries emanating from the full gamut of FI locations and FI-related reports
·Performing various data integrity checks
·Ensuring adequate documentation exists to support existing processes, enabling effective X-training and cover
Key skills and experience required:
·Qualified accountant (or overseas equivalent)
·Graduate with solid financial / mathematics core
·Good product knowledge covering all facets of bond portfolio trading and including associated hedges, i.e. vanilla Eurobonds, domestics, globals and linkers, repos, term deposits IRSs, XCSs, IRFs and CDSs
·Detailed and working knowledge of certain key systems, i.e. BATS, Toms, Mistral, RIMMS, Rates Infinity
·Strong software skills, (particularly Excel including macros and basic VBA)
If you would like to apply for this role or find out more, please apply or contact Gwen Howlett at Robert Walters on 020 7509 8329 or imf@robertwalters.com quoting the reference GHF 1023840.
Where any specific qualification is mentioned, all equivalent overseas qualifications are acceptable