TekWissen ® · 16 hours ago
Financial Product Accounting Business Line Analyst
Jersey City, NJ
Contract
Onsite
Senior Level
$500/d - $500/d
7+ years expTekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to clients worldwide. The Financial Product Accounting Business Line Analyst role involves functional design, business line specification, and deployment of finance systems and process changes initiatives, as well as collaboration with various departments to ensure project success.
Information Technology
Responsibilities
The Business Analyst has broad-based responsibilities for the functional design, business line specification and deployment of Finance Systems and Process changes initiatives at both an Americas Legal Entity and IHC level
The candidate will work as a team member of projects. General responsibilities include:
Generate, analyse, and document user requirements and business processes for IT development (BRD)
Undertake data assessment, data gap analysis and remediation
Plan and manage user acceptance and migration testing up to successful delivery of end-product or remediation solution
Liaise and coordinate cross-functionally to review requirements with stakeholders to enable design and development in liaison with IT, coordinate testing, support go-live, and provide long term support for operational readiness, governance, controls, and aftercare
Ensure proper and adequate aftercare and follow-up to remediate any unforeseen issues
Manage issues and escalate effectively
Ensure on-time quality delivery of projects and tasks assigned
Facilitate working group meetings with effective presentation materials and documentation; prepare agendas, document-meeting outcomes and communicate to stakeholders and management
Support enhancement efforts of the overall control environment, including upstream processes and controls
Specific responsibilities for the Finance Implementation Project Business Line Analyst role:
Sound knowledge of lifecycle of financial Global Market and Global Banking products and banking processes, ability to navigate complex data systems and architecture
Work closely with Finance Strategy group for current and upcoming new transactions or activities
Acts as the contact person within the project teams and for the business line in relation to data and functional aspects and document and validate BRD updates accordingly
Engage finance internal teams for relevant schemas and downstream reporting of finance processes
Ensure accounts, products, legal entities, and source systems are properly reflected in implementation
Track timelines and budget, report weekly updates, lead, and participate in OpCo/SteerCo meetings
Ensure appropriate coverage to anticipate and enable resolution for any unforeseen or blocking issues with appropriate escalation
Identify opportunities to enhance and automate processes and agilely reprioritize and support other finance projects as they emerge
Ensures proper change management controls, rules, and responsibilities as required
Excellent PowerPoint and Excel skills to allow for analysis, summary, and presentation to working group and management as needed
Qualification
Required
Qualified CFA / Finance University Degree
7 to 10 years of work experience in the field of accounting and / or accounting systems (i.e. upstream to general ledger and downstream) and implementation in the financial services industry
Strong technical accounting background in the financial services industry (Ex: Corporate and Investment Bank, Prime and Hedge Fund Services, Investment Management, etc.)
Experience must include business analysis and application testing
Excellent written and oral communication skills
Business analysis and project management skills including Microsoft Office, SQL preferred
Ability to understand complex financial products and system architectures, including accounting business processes, financial, and management reporting (IAS and US GAAP), month-end closing process, regulatory reporting, entity consolidations and multi-currency accounting
Experience working with accounting and reporting of complex financial products (Ex: Derivatives, Forex, Equities, Fixed Income, Treasury, Loan Syndication, Supply Chain, Trade Finance, etc.) with deep understanding of product lifecycles and associated accounting events
Detail-oriented approach with problem solving mind-set and ability to work independently
Ability to effectively challenge and apply professional skepticism with the goal of providing strategic solutions
Excellent written and oral communication skills, with the ability to explain complex issues clearly and concisely to audiences of varying technical or accounting levels
Ability to work effectively in geographically dispersed cross-functional teams
Preferred
CFA or experience in financial products preferred
Knowledge of accounting standards - IFRS and/or US GAAP are of interest
Experience working with IT in product implementations of financial systems
Experience in Business Analysis (Accounting and Reporting) and Application Testing (accounting interpreter, sub ledger, general ledger, and reporting tools) in financial services industry
Fluency in one of more of these languages preferred: French, Spanish and/or Portuguese
Knowledge of emerging solutions and analytic tools preferred, e.g., robotics, Alteryx, BI, AI etc
Company
TekWissen ®
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