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Financial Control & Reporting Accountant - AVP

London Full-Time 48000 - 72000 £ / year (est.) Home office (partial)

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At a Glance

Tasks: Join our Financial Reporting team to deliver impactful quarterly and bi-annual reports.
Company: MUFG is a leading global financial group with a rich 350-year history.
Benefits: Enjoy hybrid working, competitive salary, and opportunities for professional growth.
Why this job: Make your mark in finance while collaborating with diverse teams and driving innovation.
Qualifications: Ideal candidates are ACA/ACCA qualified with a passion for financial reporting.
Other info: Engage with trading desks and external auditors in a dynamic work environment.

The predicted salary is between 48000 - 72000 £ per year.

Financial Control & Reporting Accountant – AVP

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Financial Control & Reporting Accountant – AVP

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Financial Control & Reporting Accountant – AVP

Do you want your voice heard and your actions to count?

Discover your opportunity with Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG), one of the world’s leading financial groups. Across the globe, we’re 120,000 colleagues, striving to make a difference for every client, organization, and community we serve. We stand for our values, building long-term relationships, serving society, and fostering shared and sustainable growth for a better world.

With a vision to be the world’s most trusted financial group, it’s part of our culture to put people first, listen to new and diverse ideas and collaborate toward greater innovation, speed and agility. This means investing in talent, technologies, and tools that empower you to own your career.

Join MUFG, where being inspired is expected and making a meaningful impact is rewarded.

MUFG (Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group) is one of the world\’s leading financial groups. Headquartered in Tokyo and with approximately 350 years of history, MUFG is a global network with around 2,300 offices in over 50 countries including the Americas, Europe, the Middle East and Africa, Asia and Oceania, and East Asia.. The group has over 150,000 employees, offering services including commercial banking, trust banking, securities, credit cards, consumer finance, asset management, and leasing.

As one of the top financial groups globally with a vision to be the world\’s most trusted, we want to attract, nurture and retain the most talented individuals in the market. The size and range of MUFG\’s global business creates opportunities for our employees to stretch themselves and reap the rewards, whilst our common values, to behave with integrity and responsibility, and to build a culture which is fair, transparent, and honest, underpin everything that we do. We aim to be the financial partner of choice for our clients, whatever their requirements, building long-term relationships, serving society, and fostering shared and sustainable growth for a better world.

MUFG’s shares trade on the Tokyo, Nagoya, and New York (NYSE: MTU) stock exchanges. The group’s operating companies include, but are not limited to, MUFG Bank, Mitsubishi UFJ Trust and Banking (Japan\’s leading trust bank), Mitsubishi UFJ Securities Holdings (one of Japan\’s largest securities firms), and MUFG Americas Holdings.

Please visit our website for more information – mufgemea.com.

Finance is responsible for the effective financial management and stewardship of the detailed accounting records, general ledger reporting, budgeting and forecasting, and tax affairs of the company. The Financial Reporting team are responsible for the annual and interim published financial statements, interaction and management of the external audit process, monthly balance sheet control and reporting and quarterly reporting to head officein Tokyo.

MAIN PURPOSE OF THE ROLE

To contribute to the overall success of the Financial Reporting team with a primary focus of delivery the quarterly Head Office reporting and bi-annual statutory reporting. The reporting is consolidated by a number of MUFG Group entities which span IFRS, USGAAP& JGAAP

You will have full accountability for and be the subject matter expert in the team for a number of traded products and own all associated financial reporting across a number of Group companies.

You will develop your understanding of trading strategies to challenge booking models and consider the technical accounting of transaction structures.
You will proactively contribute to the monthly GL close, through review of key controls and underlying trade data supporting an end-to-end understanding of systems and process flow and comprehensive ownership of underlying trade data.
You will compliment timely and accurate financial reporting with value-add analysis through detailed analytical procedures to understand business performance and drivers, highlighting areas for business optimisation through compression, capital planning and leverage exposure
management.
You will leverage Business Intelligence and your knowledge of systems architecture to develop and automate processes to enhance control, increase efficiencies and enable greater focus on value-add analysis.
Extensive communication is required across the firm including direct interaction with trading desks, risk teams, product control and other Finance teams with regular communication with Tokyo colleagues.
You will engage with external auditors to support the process throughout the cycle, including interim procedures, controls review and year-end substantive testing.
The team is expected to maintain recent detailed process notes for all material areas of responsibility and support other team members through cross-training and knowledge sharing to promote a culture of continual professional development across the team.
SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
Big 4 trained preferred and ACA/ACCA qualified Financial instruments experience (preferred)
A keen interest in Financial Reporting, with experience of preparing financial statement disclosures
Solid knowledge of IFRS required
Experience of working in a multi-GAAP Group function (preferred)
Familiarity with working with very large volumes of complex data
Experience of using Business Intelligent tools in developing automated reporting solutions
Competent user of Microsoft Office with advanced

Please note MUFG operate a hybrid working policy with 3 days per week in the office

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Accounting/Auditing and Finance
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Financial Services and Banking

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