Senior Accounting Specialist - Calypso
We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Accounting Specialist to join our team. The ideal candidate will have experience working in Capital Markets and on Calypso, with a strong knowledge of accounting principles and deep understanding of financial products.
Job Description:
The successful candidate will be responsible for establishing a comprehensive approach to defining, setting up, or troubleshooting issues arising from day-to-day activities on greenfield Calypso instances. They will develop necessary solutions to Back Office (BO) / Accounting / Operations / Finance requirements, create and deliver assigned projects/tasks, and revise as appropriate to meet changing needs and requirements.
* Manage and establish methodology and best practice for BO / Accounting / Operations / Finance requirements
* Ensure supporting documents are complete, current, and appropriately stored
* Work closely with relevant business and technology stakeholders to ensure effective and efficient implementation of the project(s)
Responsibilities:
* Submits status reports to stakeholders; coordinates and provides updates to steering committees
* Collaboration with key functional or business stakeholders to achieve clear outcomes/deliverables in relation to the strategic and transformational book of work
* Manage deliverables ensuring transparency of risks, issues and dependencies that are fully aligned to functional / business owners
You might be acting also as a business analyst as well in order to help the team gathering and writing requirements, acceptance criteria.
Requirements:
* 2+ years of experience working in Capital Markets and on Calypso
* Strong knowledge of accounting principles
* Deep Knowledge of Financial products cross assets
* Proven track record of delivery of accounting and finance related solutions (settings) within Calypso
* Experience of adherence to governance frameworks / implementation and handover to BAU
Skills and Qualifications:
* Comprehensive knowledge of trade flow, trading systems and related concepts and technology, including valuation and client/market risk management
* Excellent analytical skills, understanding of project life cycles, and ability to act in an entrepreneurial manner to ensure the requirements from the business are gathered in the appropriate manner
* Proven analytical, planning, problem solving and decision-making skills
* Comfortable with direct communication with all levels of technical and business resources
* Excellent organizational and time management skills with the ability to handle multiple tasks simultaneously
Language Skills: Spanish is required, both written and spoken.