Senior Financial Specialist

Opdracht:

Senior Financial Specialist 
 

Project description
Shared Services Finance (SSF) Amsterdam in RBS NV is responsible for instructing, receiving and consolidating the external and statutory financial information for RBS NV.
One of the main tasks of the department is the reporting of financial figures to RBS Group. Next to this a number of projects have started to align and integrate processes and systems with the RBS Group organization. The department is seeking a financial reporting specialist to strengthen the department and take over tasks that were previously performed by the SSF team in Edinburgh.

Main deliverables will be
Data submission related:
• Handle and control monthly data submission into RBS Group
• Perform reconciliation of the data submission into RBS Group with the RBS NV financial reporting system (Cartesis), including late adjustments.

Supplementary Data Pack related:
• Fill out (sub-set) of the quarterly Supplementary Data Pack (SDP) schedules that are used to report quarterly disclosure information to RBS.
• Review SDP schedules that are filled out by team members before the schedules are sent to RBS
• Assess new RBS disclosure reporting requirements and the impact on the RBS NV financial reporting system;
• Together with IT decide on optimal technical solution for the Cartesis changes
• Design, test and implement together with IT new disclosure requirements in Cartesis
• Write instructions and train local finance for SDP delivery
• Improve and where possible automate the SDP delivery process to RBS
 

Skills
 Business knowledge
Competencies
• Strong analytical skills
• Self starter
• Quick learner
• Pro-active attitude
• Team player
• Ability to influence and convince others
• Good planner
• Stress resistant and able to work with deadlines

Educational level
• HEAO or higher

Required technical skills
Experience:
• Minimum 5 years working experience in financial accounting in an international (banking)group;
• Working experience in banking;
• Preferably working experience with Hyperion;
• Managing and leading small team (2 FTE’s);
• Dealing with international stakeholders;
• Proven experience in working and manipulating large data files with financial data for reporting purposes.

Professional knowledge:
• Affinity with automation
• In-depth knowledge of MS Office; very good in Excel and Access and in general with data manipulation;
• Good financial and accounting knowledge, including consolidation;
• Knowledge of IFRS.
Behavioural characteristics
General:
• Candidates needs to be able to start ASAP
• Candidate needs to be flexible in working hours due to monthly and quarterly reporting. Evening and weekend work might be required.

Additional Comments:

The focus in this role is the candidate’s ability to work with and manipulate large amounts of financial data. Excel, Access and general computer skills are therefore essential. The candidate needs to be stress resistant as he/she will have to work with large amounts in short time periods. Most of the tools used to manipulate are already in place but would need fine-tuning and the possibility is there to create new financial tools to simplify the process. An accounting background is required with good experience within an international working environment. English needs to be at a fluent level as a lot of work is done with colleagues in the UK. The team is very focused and determined with a strong drive to get the job done on time. Candidate needs to have at least 5 years experience in a similar role.

CV's must be in English.
 

Assignment information
Startdate 14 maart 2011
Enddate 30 juni 2011
Hours weekly 40 hours per week
Location Amsterdam

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