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. 

Job Responsibilities

Legal Entity accounting & 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 Participate in Firmwide legal entity reporting projects including infrastructure and process improvement efforts and other Controller initiatives as needed Coordinate the US Resolution deliverables for 6 Asia MLEs, including project management and ensure high quality submission while alignment to the Firmwide Resolution Framework. Deliverables include but not limited to resolution plan submission, annual review of financial analysis, tabletop exercise and capabilities testing.  Coordinate local Recovery Plan creation for Asia entities, including project management and ensure project objectives/milestones and timeline are met. Maintain a robust BAU Resolution Appendix Process including performing appendix review and validation, updating SOP and continuous process improvement. 

Required qualifications, capabilities and skills 

CA/MBA with 3+ years of years of experience Strong accounting and analytical acumen, with ability to understand, produce and explain income statement and balance sheet content and variances Superior attention to detail and Advanced Excel and PowerPoint skills required Outstanding written and verbal communication skills, including an ability to prepare executive level presentations Ability to work effectively with others, as well as act as an effective liaison with all business partners within the lines of business or legal entity chains Ability to multi-task and work well under pressure, with an ability to be flexible in a dynamic and challenging environment