Senior / Diagnostic Accountant

Senior Diagnostic Accountant

Moody’s Analytics Knowledge Services enables organizations to innovate and transform in an ever-changing world. Our global pool of domain experts enables businesses to innovate, scale, and reduce costs. Providing customized solutions is in our DNA – solutions that have a tangible impact on our clients’ top and bottom lines, enabling them to achieve more with less.

Our clients include leading bulge-bracket financial institutions, asset managers, Fortune 100 corporations, mid-tier companies, boutique investment banks, and funds. We support over 150 institutional clients through our team of 2,600+ employees and our global delivery centers located in proximity to our clients.

Please visit our website for more details: http://maknowledgeservices.com 

Opportunity

Due to the rapid expansion of our business, we are looking for an individual with personal drive, excellent communication and interpersonal skills, have a flair for numbers, possess extraordinary technical accounting and IFRS skills, experience in managing teams and is interested in working with a global team, to lead our Diagnostic Accounting team.

Main responsibilities

• Supervising the Accounting Diagnostic team and Quality checking their work

• Studying annual reports and other publicly available information on companies, and identifying any material issues/concerns and deviations from relevant local and international accounting standards

• Identifying instances where financial statements do not record the economic substance of a transaction or possess inaccurate accounting, or where the accounting treatment may be misused to change the outlook of the results

• Studying companies’ corporate governance practices and comparing these with accepted practices

• Performing competitor analyses

• Entering historical annual report information on Excel spreadsheets and performing analyses (analytical review procedures) to identify issues in financial statements

• Interpreting the impact of the identified issues on companies’ earnings and value

• Writing concise reports on findings and conclusions

Required Background

• An ACCA or CA Associate Member (with a distinction in accounting and audit subjects)

• A minimum of 4 to 5 years of IFRS experience is a must

• Strong technical knowledge of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS)

• Excellent analytical and number crunching skills, and conceptual thinking ability

• Flawless communication skills in written and spoken English

• Good knowledge of MS Excel and MS Word

• Ability to lead a team of Diagnostic Accountants

• Absolute attention to details and meeting of deadlines

If you are confident that you meet the above qualifications, please forward your CV, along with a short note that highlights how you meet the above requirements, to maks_jobs@moodys.com specifying Senior/ Diagnostic Accountant/ (your name) as the subject line.