The Legal Entity Control team is responsible for financial oversight of their
legal entity, and is tasked with ensuring that a strong control environment
exists as it relates to all businesses, products and operational areas that
impact the Legal Entity financials and regulatory reporting of the firm. This role provides an opportunity to interact with multiple lines of business
and internal stakeholders while learning legal entity controllership
end-to-end. The Associate will liaise with the line of business finance teams,
operations and the Legal Entity Controller community to drive the Legal Entity
agenda. Specific responsibilities will include: * Legal Entity accounting and control on a monthly basis, including month-end close process, parent/child accounting, equity pick up, review of inter-entity breaks and unnatural general ledger balance monitoring * Month-End analytical review of the legal entity to ensure completeness and accuracy of the financial statements and preparation of various reports, including contributions to the Monthly Controller’s Book,
as well as Legal Entity and line of business financial commentary and regulatory reporting requirements * Investigation, analysis and resolution of issues and response to ad-hoc queries * Assist in the Booking Model review and on-going Legal Entity Control Standard compliance monitoring * Intercompany Activity Control including variance commentary * Monitoring of the G/L including consolidation and netting * Participate in Firmwide legal entity reporting projects including infrastructure and process improvement efforts and other Controller initiatives as needed Qualifications: * Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance or related business field * 4+ years finance/accounting – related experience * CPA a plus but not required * Strong accounting and analytical acumen, with ability to understand, produce and explain income statement and balance sheet content and variances * Superior attention to detail * Outsta...