Financial Analyst - contract

This role presents an ideal opportunity to develop a wide range of core accounting, reporting, control and process improvement skills as well as develop a key overall understanding of the Capital Markets businesses and how each operates within the legal entity framework.

What will you do?

Ledger Maintenance

• Prepare key Control & Suspense MIS reports and follow up on outstanding balances to ensure these are cleared in a timely manner
• Monitor and clear sub-ledger Accounting error queue (where entries can\’t post to an account) in a timely manner.
• Support the Ledger Maintenance function by opening certain sub-branches, transits and accounts within the general ledger and sub-ledgers
• Support and assist with the setup of trading books, business units and customers. Liaise with Operations and Product Control teams to resolve issues promptly
• Prepare monthly ledger accounts Attestation summaries for accounts under ownership
• Maintain HO reporting deliverables schedule to ensure timely submissions across Finance

Data Analyst

• Analyze processes, gather requirements, look for solutions to improve and see through the implementation of these solutions.
• Interpret data using careful business-grounded logic and analytics techniques to test controls, find exceptions, and discover insights and trends.
• Support the maintenance of existing or built processes.
• Identify opportunities to improve and streamline current processes
• Ensuring adequate documentation of processes and procedures are maintained
• Prepare and distribute daily and monthly MIS and KPIs reports, key account and inter-systems reconciliations including subledger to main Ledger and intergroup cash. Liaise with counterparts within Product Control and Operations (BCS) to investigate and clear breaks in a timely manner. Ensure the integrity of these reports by raising IT tickets where necessary.
• Ad hoc projects and tasks as required.

What do you need to succeed?

• Full Professional accountancy qualification
• Graduate, ideally with a focus in Quantitative Engineering, Statistics or Computer Science
• Strong Microsoft Excel quantitative, financial and analytical skills
• Experience using ETL tools such as DataAnalze360, Dataiku or Alteryx
• Good MS Office skills – Power BI, Word, Access, Outlook and PowerPoint
• Strong organizational, written and interpersonal communication skills are essential
• Python, SQL, VBA programming experience is desirable
• Ability to learn data analytics and data visualization tools
• Creative and analytical thinker who is self-driven and capable of working in a fast-paced environment
• Knowledge of or experience in the Financial Services industry

Randstad Financial & Professional encourage applications from individuals of all ages & backgrounds. Appointment will be made on merit alone but candidates must be able to demonstrate their ability to work in the UK. Randstad Financial & Professional acts as an employment agency for permanent recruitment & an employment business for temporary recruitment as defined by the Conduct of Employment Agencies & Employment Business Regulations 2003

Additional Requirements

• experience: 4 years pqe plus
• skills: ifrs
• qualifications: acca
• education: secondary school