Corporate Finance Controller

Job Description

JOB DESCRIPTION

The role will be in the finance department of Jefferies GmbH, where the candidate will contribute to the preparation of regulatory returns, daily and month end reporting tasks within the finance department of Jefferies GmbH. The role will span across the finance function and will be working closely with our finance teams in London to support on regulatory requirements, product control and corporate control related tasks to ensure high standards.

Key Responsibilities & Tasks

• Preparation and review of notifications, periodic and ad-hoc regulatory reporting in compliance with requirements of Bundesbank and BaFin, and any other relevant authority. This requires cooperation with the regulatory reporting team in London and includes preparation of any supporting documentation.
• Interaction with the supervisory authorities on specific topics.
• Assist in coverage for wider controller teams covering various tasks like monitoring of costs, daily profit and loss, Inventory controls.
• Assisting in the preparation of various management reporting packs.
• Support in year end audits and ongoing internal audit activities.
• Maintain the policies / business requirement documentations for all finance related processes and procedures for German legal entity.
• Participation in projects and new business initiatives for German for finance related topics to ensure local requirements are being appropriately addressed.
• Contribute to process improvements and driving re-engineering initiatives.
  
  

Qualifications/ Experience

• Strong financial and analytical skills including good knowledge of HGB, US-GAAP and IFRS.
• Profound financial products know how.
• Excellent communication and problem-solving skills.
• Strong Excel skills.
• Minimum 4 years relevant work experience.
• Fluent in German and English.
• Self-motivated with ability to deal with multiple commitments / deadlines.
  
  

About Us

Jefferies Financial Group Inc. (‘‘Jefferies,’’ ‘‘we,’’ ‘‘us’’ or ‘‘our’’) is a U.S.-headquartered global full service, integrated investment banking and securities firm. Our largest subsidiary, Jefferies LLC, a U.S. broker-dealer, was founded in the U.S. in 1962 and our first international operating subsidiary, Jefferies International Limited, a U.K. broker-dealer, was established in the U.K. in 1986. Our strategy focuses on continuing to build out our investment banking effort, enhancing our capital markets businesses and further developing our Leucadia Asset Management alternative asset management platform. We offer deep sector expertise across a full range of products and services in investment banking, equities, fixed income, asset and wealth management in the Americas, Europe and the Middle East and Asia.

At Jefferies, we believe that diversity fosters creativity, innovation and thought leadership through the infusion of new ideas and perspectives. We have made a commitment to building a culture that provides opportunities for all employees regardless of our differences and supports a workforce that is reflective of the communities where we work and live. As a result, we are able to pool our collective insights and intelligence to provide fresh and innovative thinking for our clients.

Jefferies is an equal employment opportunity employer, and takes affirmative action to ensure that all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, religion, gender, pregnancy, age, physical or mental disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran or military status, genetic information, reproductive health decisions, or any other factor protected by applicable law. We are committed to hiring the most qualified applicants and complying with all federal, state, and local equal employment opportunity laws. As part of this commitment, Jefferies will extend reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities, as required by applicable law.

All employees must follow Jefferies’ COVID-19 protocol policy , which is subject to change.