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Title: Product Control Manager Location: New York, NY Officer Title: AVP – VP Status: Fulltime Regular This is an opportunity for a experienced Accounting professional with Product Control experience for an Investment Bank. The person in this role will liaise with all Company employees with a focus on Trading and Capital Markets personnel. JOB DUTIES / RESPONSIBILITIES The Product Control Manager will have responsibility for accounting and controlling of traded markets products including equities, total return swaps, futures, forwards, options, FX , Commercial Paper and security financing transactions. The primary function of the role will be to take responsibility for calculation, analysis, explanation and reporting of specific daily, revenue figures. This also includes full reconciliation of all reported revenues with the traders and general ledger and consequently solving and reporting of these differences. JOB SPECIFICATIONS Generation and reporting of reliable Profit and Loss (P & L) information on a daily basis to traders, Management and accounting Reconciliation of the P & L figures with traders and acquire sign-off Reconciliation of the P & L figures with the general ledger Analysis and explanation of P & L, cash balance and FX exposure information Performance, trend analysis and comments on daily revenue figures and revenue related lines of the balance sheet and income statement Resolution of ad hoc queries Education and Experience Bachelors Degree in Accounting/Finance 5 or more years of experience in finance/front office trading environment, working for a global financial services firm. Knowledge of Financial Markets products Experience with Sophis and SmartStream systems preferred Knowledge of the USGAAP and International Accounting Standards MS Excel intermediate to expert level Risk awareness Competencies and other Requirements Very strong analytical skills and numerical insight Strong communication & negotiation skills Motivated and able to use own initiative Results-oriented Organizationally sensitive Initiative and innovation driven Please e-mail resume and brief cover letter to: Stuart@RosenthalRecruiting.com Rosenthal Recruiting website has more information and ways to connect: http://www.RosenthalRecruiting.com BLOG/LINKS/MEDIA TESTIMONIALS