Join us as a Trading Product Control Associate

• Join a team that is accountable for closing and maintaining the integrity of the ledger for our Commercial & Institutional business
  
• You'll be delivering an accurate understanding of the financial position, including key business drivers for material movements
  
• Gain valuable experience and hone your expertise as you advance your career in this challenging role
  
• You'll attend the office in Edinburgh in person a minimum of two days per week, with the rest of your time working from home
  

What you'll do

As a Trading Product Control Associate, you'll be responsible for the daily P&L and monthly balance sheet reporting for the bank's trading desks which sit within NatWest Markets. This will help the bank to effectively manage its trading position, demonstrate strong daily controls, and enable management of market risk.

You'll establish and maintain strong working relationships with key customers and stakeholders, and deliver high quality and consistent financial, statutory, regulatory, and management reporting outputs. You'll comply with relevant policies and consider and escalate the adequacy and effectiveness of the business's controls on a regular basis.

Day to day, you'll:

• Undertake reconciliations, accounting, MI, and control activities to support the ledger close, reconciliation, substantiation, and reporting
  
• Support change initiatives, process improvements, and in-system implementations
  
• Prepare month-end accounting, such as journal preparation, reviews, and account reconciliation
  
• Investigate process or system issues
  
• Support systems testing, such as user acceptance testing and system or process improvement initiatives
  

The skills you'll need

To succeed in this role, you'll bring experience in core financial and product control delivery and reporting outputs, including ledger close, balance sheet substantiation, statutory and management reporting, and external audit.

We'll also look to you to have:

• Knowledge of international accounting standards
  
• Experience in delivering change in a financial services environment
  
• The ability to identify, build, and enhance key relationships at a senior level
  
• Experience in investigating and probing issues with cross-business impact
  
• An understanding of intercompany and contra account usage requirements, and intercompany reconciliations and substantiation