Join us as a Trading Product Control Analyst

• 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

What you'll do

As a Trading Product Control Analyst, 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.

Day to day, you’ll:

• Support the delivery of end-to-end financial control activity
• 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
• Work on the implementation of approved ideas for process improvements
• Maintain up to date procedural documentation
• 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 financial accounting and have an understanding of revenue, profit & loss and balance sheets. You’ll have gained experience in financial control, reporting processes and accounting, ideally from a banking or financial services environment.

We’ll also look to you to have:

• The ability to make sound decisions to resolve problems 
• An awareness of policies and external legislations, such as SOX, and risk and control frameworks within Finance
• Some experience of delivering core financial control and reporting outputs, including ledger close, balance sheet substantiation, statutory and management reporting