Mandarin-Speaking Deputy Head of Finance & Accounting

The Skills You'll Need:

• Mandarin
• ACCA / ACA Qualified
• Wholesale Banking
• IFRS 9

Your New Salary: Competitive, depending on experience

Office based

Start: ASAP

What You'll be Doing:

• Manage the daily reconciliation and product control processes for the Branch, including valuation adjustments and FX movements. Challenge irregularities, ensuring the Trial Balance and daily reports are fully reconciled, documented and issues resolved in an expedient way.
• Oversee the preparation of financial reports for Management, Head Office and Local Regulators (e.g. PRA/FCA), and other internal/external stakeholders.
• Review periodic management information, liquidity metrics, and explanations of material variances.
• Support the Financial Planning & Analysis for the branch to ensure accurate and informative budgets and forecasting are prepared, and develop suitable metrics to track and analyse variances.
• Lead monthly management reporting processes, ensuring accuracy and efficiency in month-end close, ensuring the value of variances are captured, with cause and steps to resolve, where appropriate.
• Ensure all submissions meet both technical requirements and prescribed timelines.
• Review and maintain the branch's accounting, liquidity, tax, and regulatory compliance frameworks in line with HO and local standards, ensuring detailed policy, processes and procedures are available.
• Maintain and oversee fixed asset and accounts payable systems; ensure timely and accurate expense processing.
• Support the internal or external audit process in conjunction to ensure data and responses are produced within the required deadlines.
• Undertake projects or assignments as assigned by the Branch CFO.
• Maintain a detailed record of Continuous Professional Development in support of professional qualifications.

The Skills You'll Need to Succeed:

• Solid experience in a senior finance manager role within a wholesale banking or financial services.
• Detailed knowledge of wholesale banking products and UK banking regulatory frameworks.
• Demonstrate a comprehensive understanding of IFRS 9.
• Leadership and management experience, within a multicultural environment.
• Strong experience in management accounting, financial reporting, budgeting, and internal controls.
• Ability to work effectively with cross-border teams and navigate Head Office expectations.
• Excellent analytical, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
• Proactive, detail-oriented, and able to handle multiple stakeholders and deadlines.
• Capable of driving innovation to maintain or improve the finance team's capability.
• Mandarin highly desirable, or a willingness to learn.

We would be grateful if you could send your CV as a Word document. If your application is successful, you will be contacted within 7 days. We regret that due to the high volume of applications we receive we cannot provide feedback on individual CVs. Please note that we can only consider candidates who are eligible to work in the UK and are able to provide relevant supporting documentation.

People First is committed to increasing diversity, and maintaining an inclusive workplace culture. We welcome applications from all qualified candidates regardless of their ethnicity, race, gender, religious beliefs, sexual orientation, age, marital status or whether or not they have a disability.