AVP, Financial Accounting and Reporting 12 Month FTC

MUFG; London; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

MUFG is seeking an AVP for Financial Accounting and Reporting. This 12-month fixed-term role based in London involves preparing financial reports, conducting reconciliations, and ensuring compliance with accounting standards. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in financial accounting, excellent communication skills, and the ability to operate effectively under pressure.

Qualifications

• Proficient in Microsoft Office (Excel/VBA, Word, Access).
• Good understanding of Derivatives related accounting.
• Strong attention to detail and accuracy.

Responsibilities

• Preparation of financial accounting reports for stakeholders.
• Daily reconciliation production and review.
• Monthly closing journals and ledger adjustments.

Skills

Microsoft Office

Accounting Software

Communication

Problem Solving

Job description

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AVP, Financial Accounting and Reporting 12 Month FTC

Apply locations London time type Full time posted on Posted Yesterday job requisition id 10071274-WD

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.

Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (“MUFG”) 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, Ltd., 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, visit https://www.mufg.jp/english .

MAIN PURPOSE OF THE ROLE

• Preparation of Technology suspense accounts. This includes liaising with account owners to ensure validity and accuracy of individual account transactions and timely capitalization of assets, monitoring cost spend against budget, accruing, calculating withholding tax and markups, invoicing and following up on cash remittance for projects carried out in London on behalf of EMEA offices.
• Production and review of daily reconciliation between Front and Back Office systems.
• Production and review of Daily Profit and Loss reports for Global Market Division.
• Investigation of reconciliation differences with respective areas of the bank and advising on root cause and corrective actions.
• Maintain Bank’s fixed assets and leased assets register and prepare all related Head Office reports. This includes review of applications for system development, advising on investment vs expense treatment and monitoring the fixed assets coding in Oracle.
• Preparation of Bank’s pension accounting journals and reporting.
• Monthly balance sheet controls regarding nostro accounts
• Preparation of monthly closing journals, ledger adjustments, analysis and reconciliations. Review business reports to ensure accuracy in General Ledger including accruals processing to ensure reporting within the correct accounting period.
• Half yearly Variable Interest Entity reporting
• Preparation of Financial Accounting Reports in order to support the Bank in meeting its deadlines to its various stakeholders
• Quarterly and semi-annual Japanese GAAP and US GAAP reporting preparation and review ensuring complete, accurate and timely preparation and submission of reports and following up with auditor queries.
• Adhoc projects

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

• Good working knowledge of Microsoft Office (Proficient with Excel/VBA, Word and Access)
• Exposure to Derivatives related accounting
• Good exposure to accounting software packages.
• Good written and verbal skills
• Excellent communication skills
• Results driven, with a strong sense of accountability
• A proactive, motivated approach.
• The ability to operate with urgency and prioritize work accordingly
• Strong decision making skills, the ability to demonstrate sound judgement
• A structured and logical approach to work
• Strong problem solving skills
• A creative and innovative approach to work
• Excellent attention to detail and accuracy
• A calm approach, with the ability to perform well in a pressurized environment

We are open to considering flexible working requests in line with organisational requirements.

MUFG is committed to embracing diversity and building an inclusive culture where all employees are valued, respected and their opinions count. We support the principles of equality, diversity and inclusion in recruitment and employment, and oppose all forms of discrimination on the grounds of age, sex, gender, sexual orientation, disability, pregnancy and maternity, race, gender reassignment, religion or belief and marriage or civil partnership.

We make our recruitment decisions in a non-discriminatory manner in accordance with our commitment to identifying the right skills for the right role and our obligations under the law.

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At MUFG, our colleagues are our greatest assets. Our Culture Principles provide a roadmap for how each of our colleagues must think and act to become more client-obsessed, inclusive and innovative. They reflect who we are, who we want to be and what we expect from one another. We are excited to see you take the next step in exploring a career with us and encourage you to spend more time reviewing them!