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• Delivering Financial Reports to Management.• Maintaining incident/risk register and reporting on it.• Day to day management of team members covering Billing/Accounts receivable, Client Fee billing, Trailer Fees process (including reconciliations, collections and payments), Accounts Payable and reconciliations. • Group reporting and consolidations.• Budgeting and Forecasting (preparation and monitoring).• Planning year end audit and deliverables with the team.• Tax accounting (UK Corporation Tax, UK VAT, FATCA Returns and USWHT)• Team members recruitment, priorities setting, appraising, training and development. • Coordinating and reviewing adhoc requests client/fund provider statistics &income/cost/profitability analyses to support the Fund Desk sales activities. • Responsible for the delivery of COREP, FSA001, FSA002 and Client money related Returns of Clearstream Funds Centre Ltd to FCA.• Review and sign-off of diary reconciliations of trading accounts and limits.Other roles include:• Reviewing and improving on processes/controls within the team• Various ledger/cost centre mapping and developing new group reporting under Luxemburg’s GAAP. • Closing off the books and records of the Fund Desk business and handing over ongoing r responsibilities.• Assisting the Head of Finance and Risk and covering in his absence.

London, United Kingdom

Key roles•Responsible for the financial control and statutory reporting of legal entities.•Overseeing the regulatory reporting (Solvency II reporting) and capital management of Managed Pension Funds Ltd.•Overseeing month end closure and Balance Sheet accounts substantiations including cost centre reviews.•Reviewing US and local regulatory reports and providing inputs.•Preparing monthly and quarterly financial reporting packs which include various analyses and presenting to Management.•Planning year end audit and deliverables with the team.•Working with Tax Team on VAT, quarterly instalment payments (“QIP”) and the annual Tax Return.•Managing both onshore and offshore teams by reviewing work, setting priorities and providing guidance. •Preparing budgets (Business Plan) over a five-year period and coordinating inputs from the business to document the business objectives over the planning period.•People management including recruitment, priorities setting, training and development.

Brief assignment:1)Ledger account balances review and substantiations.2)Analysis to write off balances and close GL ledger accounts.3) Processes review and documentation

London, United Kingdom

Main roles:•Managing and delivering year end reporting (Statutory Accounts, Audit and Board papers). •Maintaining US GAAP General Ledger for US consolidation and converting it into IFRS for local reporting.•Managing the interim and year-end audit process.•Solvency I Pillar 1 (FSA/PRA Returns) and Solvency II Pillar III returns preparation and filings.•Reviewing and posting journals, overseeing postings into the corporate ledger by other functional areas and signing off the month end closure of the entity.•Inter-company out-of-balance reporting, settlements and cash management.•Review and presentation of Management Accounts and other papers required by the Board and other committees.•Presenting to external consultants the financial reporting process and controls associated with BlackRock Life's fund structures.• Financial control across entities including budgeting and forecasting.•People management and team priority setting.

London, United Kingdom

Main roles:•Preparation of management accounts and commentaries. •Production of statutory accounts (under IFRS) and audit file for auditors.•Liaised with auditors in managing deliverables and timetables.•Involved in converting General Ledger/Financial Statements from UK GAAP to IFRS.•Analysed balances to feed into group reporting (SAP and RACE), prepared quarter end accounts for attestation and put together average balance sheet for Group.•Prepared intercompany mismatch report and worked with the counterparties to clear mismatches.•Reconciled and reviewed Balance Sheet Accounts, took a lead in the whole reconciliation process by building spreadsheet to aid to control of the process. •Performed Month-end closing processes which included journals preparation and review, transfer pricing calculations, trend reviews and commentaries. • Provided schedules for corporation Tax filing.

Acca, Accountancy

Higher National Diploma (Hnd), Accountancy