Statutory Accountant - 12 Month Contract

We are seeking a statutory accountant for a 12 month contract.  Applicants must hold a relevant accountancy qualification or be qualified by experience.  Statutory, Reporting or Audit experience essential.

DEPARTMENT OVERVIEW:

Legal Entity Control:
The Legal Entity Controller (LEC) role is key in the legal entity control framework model and responsible for the management and control of the firm's legal entities.

The Glasgow LEC team manages over two-thirds (c. 600) of the Firm's consolidated subsidiary population across the Sales and Trading, Asset Management, Real Estate, Infrastructure and IBD Business Units (BUs), as well as certain Corporate entities.

An LEC Associate is required to support the reporting requirements on the regulated entities in EMEA, with primary responsibility for:

- Preparing and presenting timely, relevant and value added information on entities to senior management, including:
- Annual preparation and review of statutory financial statements
- Preparation and review of entities' monthly management accounts, (Fed) regulatory and statistical filings
- Preparation and review of monthly analytics, reconciliations and explanation of account balances to facilitate month end sign off
- Supporting the Business Units in the opening/closing of entities, and by adapting the entity's ledgers and system requirements
- Co-ordination of all legal entity activity with key internal experts, such as tax, legal etc
- Monitoring, liaison and co-ordination of a number of external providers of financial statements, to ensure deadlines are met
- Other ad hoc tasks and entity related projects as required eg systems or LE framework development

SKILLS REQUIRED:

Candidates for role should be accountancy qualified, ideally with experience of financial services/products and financial reporting and display the following skill set:  

- Candidates for role should be qualified (CA,CIMA, ACCA) or QBE
- Committed and self motivated individual who can demonstrate initiative & problem solving abilities
- Excellent organisational skills and the ability to work to and manage a team to tight deadlines
- Strong appreciation of escalation and risk awareness
- Strong client relationship abilities
- Analytical skills with a control focus and high regard for attention to detail
- Critical thinking in order to challenge processes, solve for ad hoc queries and creativity to suggest alternative approaches 
- Strong Microsoft Excel skills
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, and ability to deal with colleagues/clients of all levels
- The successful candidate should have a technical accounting foundation, which they are keen to develop and build upon.  They should be able to demonstrate strong analytical, organisational and documentation skills