Accounting Specialist
This position requires a highly skilled Accounting Specialist to support and additional build out for a greenfield Calypso instance.
Key Responsibilities:
* Establish a comprehensive and integrated approach to defining, setting up, or trouble shooting issues arising from day-to-day activities on greenfield Calypso instance.
* 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.
* Competent in managing and establishing methodology and best practice for BO / Accounting / Operations / Finance requirements.
* Ensures supporting documents are complete, current, and appropriately stored.
* Works closely with relevant business and technology stakeholders to ensure effective and efficient implementation of the project(s).
* 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.
Required Skills and Qualifications:
* 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.
* 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.
* Experience with working in a highly collaborative and dynamic multi-team environment.
* Spanish language proficiency is mandatory.