Job description
Job Description
- Key customers are Brookfield Asset Manager and Brookfield Corporation groups in Toronto and the London based Finance team
- Consolidating month end results for the multi-entity, multi-currency groups, posting consolidation journals, and analysing results
- Lead preparation of the quarterly reporting packs for Europe’s consolidations and submissions of management and supplementary financial information to Toronto
- Become a main point of contact for Brookfield colleagues worldwide for queries regarding Europe’s group reporting information
- Lead the Intra-group relationship, maintaining and reconciling all intercompany loans and cashflows. Investigate and clear imbalances on a timely basis
- Assist with the accounting for acquisitions and restructures within the group. Where required, establish opening balance sheets, and ensure post-restructure integration and consistency across the group
- Provide regular monthly and quarterly Management reporting to various internal stakeholders and on an ad hoc as required
- Establish strong working relationships with the London based Corporate Executives including tax, legal and compliance teams, and other Brookfield businesses
- Management, coordination and key team member for ad hoc projects and initiatives as well as systems upgrades for the London office and other European offices where appropriate
- Commercial & technical support to the shared service department heads and managing their input to Finance
- Identification of process gaps and implementation of improvements to streamline processes and create consistencies across regions
- Provide guidance to other team members, assisting with queries and helping to create best practice mentality
- Qualified (3 – 5 years PQE)
- Strong academic background, degree educated
- Self-motivated with the ability to work independently
- Effective oral and written communication
- Deadline oriented, good time management and organisational skills
- Highly competent in the fundamentals of group accounting and the ability to make determinations on technical accounting matters
- Previous experience in preparation of a multi-currency group consolidations
- Proficient on Excel and the MS Office applications suite