Senior Position with a quickly growing Investment Bank!

Name: Leading Investment Bank

Individual will be responsible for monitoring and interpreting various emerging technical accounting issues pursuant to U.S. GAAP.

Additionally, this individual will work with the various business units, and corporate functions to apply existing and evolving standards.

Also, this individual will help in producing and maintaining technical guidance distributed and presented firm-wide.

Responsibilities:

• Monitor emerging issues through the interaction with various industry groups, liaising with certain standard setters, and discussions with Company individuals.

• Assist the business units/corporate functions in assessing the impact of evolving standards

• Interact with business units and corporate functions related to new transactions to identify accounting issues

• Apply U.S. GAAP to transactions and document accounting analysis and conclusions

• Apply Morgan Stanley accounting policies and periodically update policies as new guidance is issued

• Participate in training and publication efforts related to accounting policies

This position provides:

• Broad exposure to senior management across the entire Company

• Opportunity to take ownership of projects and see them through to completion

• Opportunity to be regarded as the Company’s expert on various technical accounting topics

• Opportunity to have exposure to and responsibility for key business areas   

• 7 – 10 years of experience with at least 4 years in public accounting

• B.S. in Accounting (or equivalent) and CPA are required.

• Strong project management skills

• Strong writing and oral communication skills

• Ability to work effectively both individually and in a team environment   

• Financial Services/Securities industry experience is a plus