State Street is hiring CA qualifiers for the role of Assistant Manager (Global Accounting Operations – Specialized Accounting). Candidates with at least 8 years of experience are preferred.
State Street is a leading service provider of financial services to institutional investors worldwide. In a rapidly changing marketplace, the strength and stability of your financial services provider are more important than ever. State Street has a long and proven history of delivering comprehensive and flexible financial solutions to many of the world’s largest and most sophisticated institutional investors. As an established and well-capitalized global leader, we can offer the guidance you need to achieve your business objectives — in any market environment.
Job descriptions
The Assistant Manager will be responsible for all aspects of US GAAP, IFRS, German accounting and reporting for Capital Markets products that provide support to the Global Product Controllers group.
Responsibilities
- Coordination of the monthly close process for the various Global Treasury balance sheet funding product (deposits, repurchase agreements, intercompany funding, long term, and short term debt) including review of reconciliations and creation of manual journal entries where applicable;
- Assist in the development of accounting conclusions and solutions for new products and transactions, or in response to system limitations;
- Liaison with Global Accounting Policy on accounting issues;
- Coordination of monthly, quarterly and annual submissions to Cayman Island Monetary Authority, Regulatory and SEC Reporting groups
Job requirements: Education and Experience
- Master’s Degree in Accounting, Chartered Accountant (CA) and Certified Public Accountant (CPA)/MBA-Finance with a minimum of 8 years of progressive experience in R2R areas with major financial institutions
- Extensive practical experience and knowledge of the US GAAP and IFRS accounting standards for the above areas, experience with other accounting standards (German, etc.) is a plus
- In-depth knowledge of Derivatives and Hedging ASC815, Offsetting of Amounts Related to Certain Contracts FIN39, Accounting
- In-depth knowledge of the Derivatives, Long Term Debt, and Preferred Stocks.
Skills Required
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office suite (Excel, Access, PowerPoint, Word, Visio), advance levels of Excel (pivot tables, formulas, excel workbook maintenance best practices)
- Knowledge of Hyperion Essbase, Oracle Financials
- Knowledge of Spotfire, Cognos data analytics and visualization (or similar) a plus
- Conceptual understanding of company-wide financial architecture (GL, sub-GL technology, specialized tools) applicable to the above process groups of processes
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