The Product Control Intermediate Analyst is an intermediate level position responsible for ensuring the completeness, accuracy and integrity of the bank's books and records in coordination with the Finance team. The overall objective of this role is to control and support data integrity and general ledger reconciliation, profit attribution and new activity analysis, valuation control and product P&L and balance sheet reporting.
**Responsibilities**:
- Monitor, assess, analyze, and evaluate processes and data
- Identify process gaps and control issues
- Escalate anomalies and issues in an efficient and timely manner
- Interpret data, identify inconsistencies through research and recommend solutions based on analysis
- Develop knowledge of how team interacts with others to accomplish Finance goals
- To promote and maintain procedures and policies.
- Interacting with members across multiple locations on a daily basis, including those in New York, London, and Budapest.
- Oversight of daily P&L production, validation and reporting for LATAM;
- Oversight of daily and month-end sub-ledger / ledger validation;
- Review and assess balance sheet and regulatory reporting impacts, month-end closing process and quarterly / annual disclosure reporting;
- Understand the Profit attribution analysis (PAA) of the portfolio and communicate daily and monthly results and/or issues to the trading desk and senior management, particularly around residuals and unexplained PAA;
- Reviewing of new trades, understanding the structure, associated risks and the P&L generated on them.
- Partner with Valuation Control Group (VCG) Team in the review and supervision of inventory valuation testing and results;
- Daily interaction with other managers throughout the organization, including, but not limited to Directors and/or Managing Directors of Finance (i.e. Treasury, Tax, Accounting Policy, Planning & Analysis, etc.), trading desks, transactors, middle office, risk management, business unit management teams and operations will be necessary to resolve issues and drive change;
- Providing and reviewing analytics / control metrics for the management team;
- Ad-hoc projects / assignments including system development, redesigning and streamlining daily and monthly processes, not just for team, but also consideration for the larger regional and global department;
- Foster a spirit of teamwork and unity among department members and across the company.
**Qualifications**:
- 3 to 5 years related business experience is preferred with experience supporting secured financial derivatives and/or fixed income instruments / trading desks as well;
- Must have strong knowledge in accounting fundamentals across various accounting methodologies, project management, portfolio management and understanding of cash flows and asset valuation preferred, particularly with rates related products;
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills in English, both verbal and written required;
- Strong MS Office Excel skills a must, Access, PowerPoint and other financial systems are pluses;
- Must have a good eye for detail, but also be able to step back and see the larger strategic picture;
- Ability to prioritize multiple tasks and meet assigned deadlines required;
- Able to influence others without authority and interact across all levels of the organization required;
- Goals and solutions oriented as well as self
- driven.
**Education**:
- Bachelor's degree required, Finance and / or Accounting;
- Advanced degree, CPA and / or CFA a big plus;
Product Control is a global control function within Citi Finance and is responsible for the accounting and financial reporting of a trading desk or business product. Product Control reports daily, monthly, quarterly and yearly revenues and is responsible for key controls over revenue reporting and analysis, balance sheet reporting and analysis, new transaction reviews and independent price verification.
This is an opportunity to provide leadership on driving change improvement within a key business for Citi, to be able to demonstrate delivering results, working as a key strategic business partner to the business and helping to build a great Global Product Control Team.
- Advanced English is a mandatory requirement
- Excellent knowledge in Finance and Accounting
- **Job Family Group**:
Finance
- **Job Family**:
Product Control
- **Time Type**:
Full time
- Citi is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer.
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