Senior Financial Controller

Phi Partners is a Capital Markets Technology consultancy, working in a specific context, providing specialist services with a niche focus. We are proud to work with more than 60 financial institutions, including some of the biggest and best known banking brands in the world.

Our People

Our people are project managers, business analysts, technical architects, developers, testers and support analysts – from recent technology or business graduates, to seasoned professionals with 25 years’ experience.

Our Context

We specialise in sell-side and buy-side trading technology. We work primarily with investment banks, but increasingly also with asset management firms and hedge funds. Our clients are IT managers or managers in Trading and Risk business departments who need our help defining, implementing or supporting their technology. Our expert consultants understand the financial products and the business processes that support them.

Our Focus

We specialise in specific vendor trading applications with a speciality in Valuation and Risk.

Summit, Sophis, and Murex are the best-known Vendor technologies in this context – we know them inside out: how to configure them, customise them, integrate them, use them, support them. In fact, we know them so well that we have partnerships with the vendors and often provide our experts to the vendors themselves, for specific projects.

Across and beyond these trading applications, we have particular expertise in quantative development – producing complex valuation and risk measures with bespoke pricing models, integrated with the client’s other technology.

Our Services

We provide individual experts to work under a client’s direction, or whole self-managing teams under the direction of one of our own senior experts. Our people provide services to support or change the client’s technology, or advise on technology choices.

We support our clients with change projects relating to their evolving business requirements – for example introduction of new financial products or responding to new regulations. We regularly undertake change projects relating to a client’s changing technology landscape: anything from a multi-year projects for a greenfield trading system implementation, or development of a cross-asset bespoke valuation service, to building an individual interface or configuring a back office workflow. Migrations of data or business functionality between systems, and system upgrades are both core parts of our business.

We also have a small product devlopment team: we offer a market-leading on-line data archiving solution for Summit, with plans for other specialised products in the pipeline.

Our Company

Phi was founded in 2004 and has since become a 200 people strong organization. We are growing, but we strive to retain our “small company” feel: we treat everyone as an individual and even the most junior employee at Phi knows the CEO!

Our headquarters is in London, and we serve our clients globally - from our offices in the UK, France, Germany and Romania, as well as from client premises across Europe and beyond.

Our Bucharest office (11, Dinu Vintila, Euro Tower, 13th Floor, 2nd District, 021101) was established in 2009 and is home to more than half our workforce running more than half of our business. Here you can find an energetic and dynamic delivery team offering speialist consultancy services across all roles and seniorities. We support clients all over Europe from our Bucharest offices, and there are also plenty of opportunities for our Bucharest team members to work overseas. The Phi Partners Operations functions are also based in Bucharest.

Qualified accountant with a minimum of four years� experience in the accounting field Good spoken and written English
Thorough understanding of European standards
Strong knowledge of Statutory accounting principles
Experience with general ledger functions and the month-end/year-end close process Experience with creating financial reports and financial statements
Experience with cash-flows
Excellent accounting software user and administration skills
Intermediate to advanced experience with MS Word and MS Excel Must be able to effectively handle multiple tasks in a deadline driven environment
Ability to meet assigned deadlines
Excellent verbal, written communication and interpersonal skills
Accuracy and attention to detail
Aptitude for numbers and quantitative skills
Ability to work cooperatively and collaboratively with all levels of employees, management, and service providers to maximize performance, creativity, problem solving and results
The individual will be expected to work with minimal up-front guidance and take ownership of his / her work product.

Verify, allocate, post and reconcile transactions
Producing error-free management accounting reports and present their results
Produce weekly and monthly reporting for the board and the management team Performing variance analysis and preparing account reconciliations
Analyzing financial information and summarize financial status
Making recommendations based on analysis
Liaise with regional accountants and prepare tax returns
Maintaining and balancing subsidiaries� accounts by verifying, allocating, posting, reconciling transactions; resolving discrepancies.
Provide assistance to Finance Manager with financial and tax audits
Ensure that all deliverables comply with regulatory guidance and professional standards
Assisting in documentation and monitoring of internal controls, policies and procedures Managing a team to deliver monthly data to the Finance Director on weekly and monthly basis
Troubleshoot issues within the company that are finance related