Job title: Product Controller

Location: London

Working pattern: Hybrid

We are partnered with a global bank who are looking for a seasoned Product Controller to join their London team. In this role you will be acting as a critical link between the Front Office and the broader Finance team, leveraging specialist product knowledge to resolve daily P&L disagreements promptly and ensure agreement with the Front Office is documented.

Key responsibilities include but are not limited to the following:

• To provide an effective link between Front Office (FO) & other stakeholders within the wider Finance team, bringing specialist product knowledge into the function.
• Daily production of p&l and decomp reporting to the front office traders, includes an analytical review of the risk-based decomposition, comparison of trader flash versus actual and other end of day reports.
• To ensure integrity of the banks books and records, including reconciliation to banks ledger systems, attestation of the books and records each month end.
• To ensure the wider Product Control team and stakeholders are immediately aware of revaluation issues that may affect downstream activity.
• Production of analytical reporting to the business and Finance team, in addition to ad-hoc reporting as required by Front Office & senior management.
• Involvement in key change management projects to deliver improvements to our daily processes.
• To ensure PC remains & is seen to be an independent control function.
• To support and provide training to members of the team.

Requirements to facilitate applying for this position.

• Strong vanilla options, structured interest rates and note issuance product and revaluation skills. Nice to have but not essential.
• Competent accountancy skills; preferably fully qualified CIMMA/ACA/ACCA or equivalent / similar.
• Excellent communication skills to deal with senior stakeholders and Front Office members.
• Capable of working to tight deadlines & under severe time pressure.
• Effective in allocating priorities.

Inventum is passionate about equity, diversity and inclusion. We seek individuals from the widest talent pool and encourage diverse and underrepresented talent to apply for vacancies with us. Inventum is committed to ensuring our recruitment processes are fair to all applicants, regardless of background and personal characteristics.

Inventum Group is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.