A fantastic opportunity to join a leading Bank as an Associate Director, guiding a team of analysts ensuring the daily financial reporting is accurate and signed off by the Front Office for the Capital Market Derivatives business.
Using your strong knowledge of Derivatives (rates, cross-currency, bonds etc) you will act as the main liaison with Global Middle Office, Trading, Information Technology, Operations, Valuations and more ensuring the daily and monthly accounting, reconciliations and attestations are complete.
Responsibilities:
- Manage and develop a team of analyst performing risk based decompositions to explain the P/L and ensure daily sign-off is provided to Front Office
- Attest to all monthly accounting entries to the G/L and conduct reconciliations to ensure figures are properly tied back to the systems of records
- Ensure all reconciliations and attestation packages are complete in timely fashion with issues escalated/resolved
- Build and lead a high performing team in a demanding technical environment with significant operational risk
- Manage and mentor a team of co-op students, analysts, senior analyst, and managers
- Execute change management while leading employees through business priorities
- Represent Product Control in meetings acting as business lead for specific projects relating to Front Office, IT, Finance initiatives
- Develop and implement a strategic plan for consistent support across all business units through staff cross training
- Act as backup to the Director of Derivatives Product Control
Must Have:
- 5+ years of Product Control experience working with Derivatives (Cross-currency, Rates, Bonds, Swaps, Futures) – knowledge of European markets an asset
- Strong leadership, analytical, problem solving, communication and people management skills
- Project Management experience and strong Change Management mindset
- University degree and CA/CMA/CGA/CPA/CFA (or equivalent experience)
- Accounting knowledge for on and off-balance sheet products a must
- Ability to work in a demanding environment with tight deadlines and solve and fix problems within a short period of time
- Advance understanding of procedures and operational controls as they relate to trading systems and workflows
To Apply:
Please apply with your resume in Word format
Only those candidate legally eligible to work in Canada need apply
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