Senior Banking Accountant with Regulatory Focus

**Senior Banking Accountant with Regulatory Focus (f/m/d)**:
Tracing its origins to 1585, Deutsche Börse Group has become one of the world’s leading exchange organisations and an innovative market infrastructure provider. In this role, we provide investors, financial institutions and companies access to global capital markets. By creating trust in the markets of today and tomorrow we foster growth and contribute to the prosperity of future generations. Deutsche Börse Group is an international company, headquartered in Frankfurt/Main, Germany. With more than 9,000 employees, the company has a strong global presence for its customers all over the world, including Luxembourg, Prague, Chicago, London, Cork, New York and many other locations.

What’s your part in all this? With your commitment you contribute to the success of our unique business model: offering a wide range of products, services and technologies, covering the entire value chain of global financial markets.

**Your area of work:
You will shoulder responsibility in one of the world’s leading international clearing and settlement organizations and will act as a communicator and connector between Accounting, Regulatory Compliance and Auditors. In a dynamic, client
- and technology-oriented environment, you will be both in charge of the preparation and coordination of the long form audit report and related accounting tasks. Where the long form audit report will require you to be a linking pin between all involved units and stakeholders - such as operations, information technology, compliance and statutory auditors - the accounting tasks will challenge you to work on all common accounting operations, on questions of group-wide consolidation and on the closing process.

In addition, you will be involved in the analysis of new supervisory regulations, especially from an accounting point of view, and the implementation within the Clearstream sub-group investment fund business. Where needed, you will perform deep dive-analyses of regulatory requirements coming along with a highly dynamic environment and challenge both internal and external stakeholders on their interpretations.

Located in Luxembourg, you will experience great multicultural teamwork as well as flat hierarchies and get the opportunity to develop further while working with accounting and regulatory specialists. In a nutshell, you as a dedicated specialist in accounting and regulatory compliance will serve as central institution concerning the long form audit report and all related accounting tasks.

**Your responsibilities:
- Prepare financial statement (LUX GAAP/IFRS) and long form report for the bank
- Support Regulatory reporting (FINREP)
- Consolidation at the holding level
- Provide analysis for the financial statements and ad hoc project
- Liaise with auditors (internal and external) by preparing requested analyses and documentation and advising them of activities and by preparing the long form audit report jointly and acting as their sparring partner
- Management of the day-to-day relationship with all stakeholders involved in the long form audit report Review and prepare reporting packs on a quarterly and annual basis
- Responsible of key controls, reconciliations and adequate documentation
- Update accounting policies and procedures as necessary
- and accounting-requirements
- Consultancy / support of projects / initiatives with relation to regulatory topics and M&A topics

**Your profile:
- University degree in business administration or economics majoring in one of the following: accountancy, regulatory compliance or banking; alternatively, equivalent qualifications also possible
- Minimum 5 years of practical experience on described topics in the finance industry or audit company Good knowledge of accounting regimes (Knowledge of IFRS 9 and IFRS 15 and Lux-GAAP) and financial regulations; knowledge on investment fund market infrastructure rules like MIFID and CRR principles on financial market infrastructures will be regarded as an asset
- Excellent communication skills in order to manage multitude and diversity of stakeholders Ability to work in a team and in a matrix organisation within a multicultural and multi-location, international environment
- Proficiency in verbal and written English and French; German language skill is an asset