Financial Reporting, AVP

at  State Street Corporation

EDUCATION & PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

A qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CPA) with a business or related degree and having at least 8-10 years’ experience in a similar financial reporting environment.

EDUCATION SUPPORT

To further enhance your career and development, State Street provides full support to train and qualify as a professional accountant with any of the professional bodies (e.g. ACA, ACCA, CPA) or other professional qualification appropriate to your role in Financial Reporting.

WHY THIS ROLE IS IMPORTANT TO US

As a core member of our Financial Reporting team, this position offers a senior leadership role in the financial reporting, particular focus to lead Financial Reporting delivery across key client relationships, lead team and staff management and development, possess a strong technical expertise on financial reporting related matters, drive department strategy at a local and global level and implement necessary change, strengthen internal control and risk management processes as appropriate and general management of ad hoc tasks as required.

WHAT YOU WILL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR:

• Lead and manage the financial reporting department - lead, direct and manage the department in collaboration with your department head and senior colleagues and manage the operations of the core financial reporting teams assigned to you within the department.
• Relationship building - manage and develop relationships with clients, counterparties and other external parties.
• Transformational change - Continuously challenge and steer change in the department, encourage new ways of making department more efficient through use of technology and automation, process review and change.
• Technical competence - maintain and develop technical expertise. Provide advice to our clients, demonstrating sound technical judgement, an understanding of the business together with the overall client relationship.
• Staff development - manage performance of your team. Put in place ongoing development plans to develop team members as part of ongoing development and career progression.
• Review and update department Operational processes, to ensure controls remain effective and account for dynamic changes in client requirements, mitigating operational risk wherever possible.
• Risk excellence - ensure all internal policies are complied with by the Financial Reporting teams in Ireland and demonstrate the ‘Risk Excellence’ culture in your behavior. Establish and nurture a culture of ‘Risk Excellence’ within the team, encourage an environment of openness that welcomes effective challenge and supports open discussion.
• Represent State Street Ireland financial reporting at industry, State Street regional and global levels as appropriate.

These skills will help you succeed in this role:

• Excellent people-management skills, demonstrate excellent communication and organisational skills.
• Ability to multi-task and be comfortable with managing difficult situations as they arise.
• Have an enquiring mind and a willingness to investigate and solve problems.
• Ability to delegate work to others.
• Proficient in Microsoft office (eg. excel, word, power point).
• Ability to multi-task and be comfortable with managing difficult situations as they arise.
• Possess a strong technical knowledge in relation to financial reporting accounting and regulatory disclosure.
• Have an enquiring mind and a willingness to investigate and solve problems.
• Self-motivated and determined to achieve (drive, determination, execution, work ethic).
• Excellent risk excellence mindset and application.
• Advanced PC literacy including: PowerPoint, MS Office, Outlook, excel.
• Take ownership of outcomes and be personally accountable for the end result.
• Possess a strong empathy and emotional intelligence