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Barclays Hiring for Technical Accounting Specialist Job at London, England Full Time
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Technical Accounting Specialist
London
As a Barclays Technical Accounting Specialist you will become a member of the London Technical Accounting Group team, reporting to one of the directors within the team. You will have a portfolio of business relationships as well as subject matter expertise responsibilities and project work that span the Barclays Group. You will be working closely with other teams in Finance, auditors, accounting firms and peers to ensure we present financial statements which are useful to the reader.
Barclays is one of the world’s largest and most respected financial institutions, with 329 years of success, quality and innovation behind us. We offer careers that provide endless opportunity – helping millions of individuals and businesses thrive, and creating financial and digital solutions that the world now takes for granted.
This opportunity is open to flexible working arrangements. Such as working from home, flexible or compressed hours, and part-time options. If you have a need for flexibility, please apply and discuss this with us during the hiring process.
What will you be doing?
• Ensuring the provision of authoritative technical accounting support to a number of businesses in the Barclays Group, covering day-to-day query flow, New Product Approvals, capital applications.
• Ensuring the provision of authoritative technical accounting support to a number of businesses in the Barclays Group, covering day-to-day query flow, New Product Approvals, capital applications.
- Ensuring support on application of the group standards in reporting by other Finance functions (e.g. Financial and Product control, Finance business partners or Financial Reporting)
- Providing appropriate training to support Finance, business and other functions in order to support their daily operations
- Being the subject matter expertise: Group-wide authority for a range of technical topics. Pro-active checking regarding implementation, identifying and escalating material gaps
- Tracking proposed rule changes and liaise with impacted businesses and functions to shape meaningful advocacy, interpretation & implementation planning for the firm
- Implementing new accounting standards and review and remediation as required for application of existing requirements
- Ensuring the accounting group standards on the allocated subject matters are up to date for all published standard requirements and policy interpretations
- Oversight of technical accounting compliance for Barclays external reporting under quarterly timetable and other ad-hoc reporting
What we’re looking for:
• Qualified accountant with post qualification experience.
• Qualified accountant with post qualification experience.
- Demonstrated good understanding of banking products and relevant technical accounting concepts.
- Ability and demonstrated interest in understanding and applying technical accounting requirements under IFRS in the context of a universal bank or investment banking franchise.
- Good communication skills (verbal and written) which is necessary to ensure that technical requirements are understood by clients and other stakeholders.
Skills that will help you in the role:
• Advocacy experience e.g. representing a bank or similar in industry forum or responding to an accounting standard change.
• Advocacy experience e.g. representing a bank or similar in industry forum or responding to an accounting standard change.
- Ability to work in a pressured environment and cope with the demands of making material recommendations, often with imperfect information and subject to review/challenge.
- Analytical skills and capability for self-directed research and work, which is required in order to resolve technical accounting matters.
- Interpersonal, influencing and team working skills, with the capability to build and sustain effective working relationships and to drive technically robust outcomes.
Where will you be working?
In the heart of Canary Wharf, our headquarters at Churchill Place boasts onsite amenities such as; a gym, staff restaurant and deli bar, and is easily accessible by tube and bus links. With a population of around 5000 staff the atmosphere is second to none with a real buzz being created around the offices within
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