City: Chicago
Wages/Salary: $18.00 per hour
State: Illinois
Job Category: Temporary
Date Posted: 3/10/2013
Job Id: 1409
Job Description
The A&F Group, a division of Integrity Staffing, is currently seeking an Investment Accountant for a large financial services company in Chicago! This is a great opportunity to get your foot in the door of a globally known company with a great reputation! The ideal candidate will: - Be an integral part of an established business, within a growing department - Develop a broad understanding across a variety of department areas - Hone analytical, problem solving and communication skills As an Investment Accountant you will have the following responsibilities: - Work with the middle office to ensure trade bookings agree between front and back office systems and ultimately the general ledger; - Work with various areas to research, escalate, and clear cash and settlement exceptions in a timely manner; - Work with the businesses and financial control to ensure understanding and sign off of monthly P&L; - Completion of monthly GLRS process. You must be highly-motivated and able to handle a high level of complexity in product coverage. You must also be able to shift focus of task with relative ease and be flexible enough in shifting workload in accordance with changing priorities, and be comfortable dealing with a sometimes stressful and fast-paced trading and month end priority-driven environment. J2WAF
Job Requirements
Basic understanding of securities and derivatives products - Comfort liaising with business and risk managers - Ability to build and maintain partnerships within the various product aligned businesses and across other corporate financial, treasury, and accounting groups - Ability to understand business drivers and requirements and influence middle and front office partners to deliver solutions to business issues and problems - Strong analytical skills: Ability to quickly understand workings of a complex processing system and general ledger systems across the infrastructure and their interrelationships and dependencies. - Excellent MS Excel and MS Office skills Required Experience: - Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or Business (or equivalent experience): - 0-3 years experience performing investment accounting preferred - Basic understanding of securities and derivatives products - Ability to understand business drivers and requirements and influence middle and front office partners to deliver solutions to business issues and problems - Strong problem-solving/analytical skills: - Able to critically challenge with the goal of identifying control issues - Ability to quickly understand workings of a complex processing system and general ledger systems across the infrastructure and their interrelationships and dependencies - Strong verbal and written communications skills
Wages/Salary: $18.00 per hour
State: Illinois
Job Category: Temporary
Date Posted: 3/10/2013
Job Id: 1409
Job Description
The A&F Group, a division of Integrity Staffing, is currently seeking an Investment Accountant for a large financial services company in Chicago! This is a great opportunity to get your foot in the door of a globally known company with a great reputation! The ideal candidate will: - Be an integral part of an established business, within a growing department - Develop a broad understanding across a variety of department areas - Hone analytical, problem solving and communication skills As an Investment Accountant you will have the following responsibilities: - Work with the middle office to ensure trade bookings agree between front and back office systems and ultimately the general ledger; - Work with various areas to research, escalate, and clear cash and settlement exceptions in a timely manner; - Work with the businesses and financial control to ensure understanding and sign off of monthly P&L; - Completion of monthly GLRS process. You must be highly-motivated and able to handle a high level of complexity in product coverage. You must also be able to shift focus of task with relative ease and be flexible enough in shifting workload in accordance with changing priorities, and be comfortable dealing with a sometimes stressful and fast-paced trading and month end priority-driven environment. J2WAF
Job Requirements
Basic understanding of securities and derivatives products - Comfort liaising with business and risk managers - Ability to build and maintain partnerships within the various product aligned businesses and across other corporate financial, treasury, and accounting groups - Ability to understand business drivers and requirements and influence middle and front office partners to deliver solutions to business issues and problems - Strong analytical skills: Ability to quickly understand workings of a complex processing system and general ledger systems across the infrastructure and their interrelationships and dependencies. - Excellent MS Excel and MS Office skills Required Experience: - Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or Business (or equivalent experience): - 0-3 years experience performing investment accounting preferred - Basic understanding of securities and derivatives products - Ability to understand business drivers and requirements and influence middle and front office partners to deliver solutions to business issues and problems - Strong problem-solving/analytical skills: - Able to critically challenge with the goal of identifying control issues - Ability to quickly understand workings of a complex processing system and general ledger systems across the infrastructure and their interrelationships and dependencies - Strong verbal and written communications skills