Role: Financial Controller
Location: London
Duration: 31/03/2025
Hybrid: 3 days in the office
As part of a strategic Book of Work moving to a global Target Operating Model (TOM), Nikko Capital Markets Ltd is moving its General Ledger functionality to the Oracle Cloud away from an internally built legacy system.
Also, the role will support the transformation of developing universal corporate & investment banking model through integration of securities trading activities into a single legal entity.
The role will require in-depth analysis to influence design and understand the impact on core finance activities, plus collaboration across project teams to solve problems and build understanding the bank's operating model.
Accountabilities & Responsibilities:
Daily PL review and attribution analysis
Trading balance sheet and PL product and financial control
Analysis and production of end-state balance sheet and PL modelling
Support testing and validation of downstream reporting processes.
Understanding and contributing to period-end finance processes to successfully complete accurate financial reporting
Co-ordination of delivery across wider team, including liaison with stakeholder groups including external audit teams and senior members of the finance team
Identify and prioritise areas of process enhancement and simplification.
Support UAT process of Oracle Cloud project to successful go-live
Knowledge, Skills & Education:
Qualified/Part-qualified Accountant
5 years+ Prior experience in Securities industry within Finance and / or Product Control
Working knowledge of Vanilla Securities products and their accounting - Equities, Fixed Income, Derivatives, Swaps etc
Basic Securities valuations experience
Period-End Close and problem-solving the typical issues found within that process
Data Analysis and Excel-based data manipulation i.e. large trade-based datasets, pivot tables, etc
Reconciliations, break investigation and general problem-solving
Adhoc reporting requests to Senior management and Front Office
Stakeholder communication
Systems: Gloss settlement and subledger system, plus any Derivatives system. MS Excel, and Access (less important)