Specialist Accounting - Derivatives Market

Job Purpose and Impact

The Professional, Record to Report job performs moderately complex record to report activities to collect, process and present accurate financial data for the purposes of providing external information for decision making while ensuring compliance with financial transaction recording standards. With limited supervision, this job collaborates with multiple businesses and banks to complete moderately complex operational processes and procedures, compliance and data management for financial products and services and data systems. This job also partners to lead improvements in process execution, implements process changes and continuous improvement and assist with audit activities.

Key Accountabilities

• RECORD TO REPORT ACTIVITIES: Performs moderately complex activities, including processing journal entries and intercompany transactions, completing monthly and quarterly general ledger close activities, performing fixed asset accounting, balance sheet reconciliations and reporting activities, tax accounting, cost and profit center allocation, bank accounting and bank reconciliations.
• FOREX RISK MANAGEMENT: Calculates and monitors foreign exchange exposures for selected units, communicates information regarding foreign exchange risks with key collaborators, and partners to establish risk management procedures and processes to ensure adherence to policies.
• POLICY COMPLIANCE & CONSISTENCY: Updates and maintains the standard operating procedures and processes on a timely basis and monitors operational compliance with financial transaction recording standards, including company accounting policies, statutory reporting regulations and tax regulations.
• BUSINESS PARTNERSHIP: Maintains positive relationship with customers, clients and other business partners, responding directly to business contacts or customers to deliver accurate processes.
• PROCESS EXECUTION IMPROVEMENT: Applies general knowledge of operational practices, procedures and internal controls to identify improvement opportunities in execution to drive operational excellence and data integrity to enable analysis and insight.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience
• Minimum of five years of related work experience
• Should have knowledge of Derivatives market
• Should have knowledge of Futures, Options, Hedging.
• Should have knowledge of Forex reconciliation, physical & Speculative Commodity Trading P&L.
• Other minimum qualifications may apply

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge of accounting modules in enterprise resource planning systems
• Working experience in multinational environment