Asset Wealth Management Legal Entity Controller - Vice President

Job description

Job Information

• Job Identification: 210658421
• Job Category: Controller
• Business Unit: Asset & Wealth Management
• Location: La Voie-Creuse 1, Geneva, CH-GE, 1202, CH
• Working hours: Full-time

Tasks

• Leading a team of accounting professionals, providing expertise in project management, Swiss financial reporting and general accounting matters
• Technical support for complex issues and partnership with operational functional colleagues (e.g. Credit, Operations, PMC, Compliance, Treasury)
• Leading strategic and complex projects, managing large amounts of data, understanding data flows and promoting a culture of automation
• Support the vision for the Global Private Bank's financial reporting product and create a product roadmap based on this vision
• Performing financial analysis and reviews, including income statement and balance sheet variance analysis, reviewing financial reports for legal entities and filing US financial reports
• Maintaining the integrity of financial reports and the control environment with an automation mentality
• Ad hoc support for local Swiss and US financial reporting and corporate matters
• Partner on various matters, such as new business initiatives, complex financial products and business inquiries, with CFOs, operations, tax, risk, compliance, tax risk, compliance and legal and regulatory functions
• Provide business and data analysis for cross-functional initiatives; analyze and document key conversations, dependencies and other project-related materials

Requirements

Required qualifications, skills and knowledge

• Qualified accountant, Bachelor's degree in accounting, finance or a related field
• At least 8 years of experience in the banking or financial services sector, ideally with experience in a global private banking framework
• Strong knowledge in one of the following areas: Accounting principles, financial reporting (e.g. capital and liquidity) and project management
• Working experience with Olympic and/or Terezona banking systems, ideally in a change management role and experience with financial reporting tools such as SAP, MS Office suite and business intelligence/automation tools such as Tableau, Alteryx, Power BI
• Knowledge of the local Swiss financial reporting framework, ideally using the Fire platform
• Very good communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams
• Fluent in English

Preferred qualifications, skills and knowledge

• Fluent in French
• CPA title or equivalent

We offer

• No specific benefits mentioned