Accounting Derivatives IFRS Financial Markets MS Office
Job Description
Process Leader – Investment Accounting & Reporting
Job Title
Process Leader
Team / Domain
Investment Accounting & Reporting
Department
Ship IAR
Reporting To
RESPONSIBILITIES
Operational Responsibilities
- Identify process efficiencies and participate in process improvement initiative
- Make updates and amendments to process documentation
- Participate in training sessions
- Perform transactional activities related to the function at the expected level of delivery in terms of turnaround time and quality while performing the following processes.
- Investment Accounting: Asset designation, initial designation of interfaced trades, Initial designation of manual trades, change of designation, de-recognition.
- Sub ledger preparation, Nautilus group consolidation, fund summary consolidation.
- Valuation and pricing : Accrual/ deferral of interest, valuation pricing
- Impairment processing and delivering data to general ledger
- Hedge Accounting & designation: Post designations, generate the postings, Post hedge accounting items, post in F1, Generate the postings, post hedge accounting designation
- Reporting: Maintain and communicate reporting policies, prepare and analyze reports, distribution of reports and acquiring sign offs & reports submission
Managerial Responsibilities
- None as the candidate has no direct report
- Responsible for service delivery by team on agreed key performance metrics of turnaround time, quality, etc.
- EDUCATION, EXPERIENCE, SKILLS & TECHNICAL COMPETENCIES
Education and Experience
- 3 years experience in investment accounting/reporting for insurance firm
- Exposure to finalization of balance sheet, understanding accounting cycle or Experience in trade entry & Asset servicing/ corporate actions/ OTC transactions/ cash and custody position reconciliation mandatory
AND
- Previous experience in an Insurance / Asset Management Shared Service environment
- Good with management information systems
- General understanding of Insurance Business with ability to articulate the different dimensions and indicators with reference to a reporting function would be an added advantage
- Open to working in European shifts
- Must possess valid passport
Key Skills and Competencies
- Ability to support transfer of technical knowledge to team
- Ability to identify and drive process improvements
- Good logical, analytical and problem solving abilities
- Ability to handle process escalations, identify issues and risks and propose resolutionAbility to multi-task and prioritize work
- Ability to work harmoniously as part of a team
- Ability to interact with internal(AXA) and external(custodians/bankers etc.) entities
- Prior experience of working on SAP
- Experience of working on tools such as Business Objects Web, SQL, Toad will be an added advantage
- Ability to perform tasks on multiple computer applications
Language Skills
- English - speaking, reading and writing
- Knowledge of other European languages will be an added advantage