Bilingual Japanese Money Market and Treasury AVP/Manager

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International Bank is seeking a Money Market and Treasury AVP or Manager with Japanese language skills;

Responsibilities

  • Trade repos, money market deposits and placement, fund foreign currencies and perform margin calls, as well as conduct Know Your Customer (KYC) inquiries.
  • Check the USD O/N position to ensure all Debit/Credit from various groups are matched with actual incoming/outgoing funds.
  • Manage term position of the other currency like EUR/GBP/AUD etc.
  • Communicate with the Fund Finance Group and Loan team in Operational Group to achieve the efficient funding operation for requesting drawdown of fund finance.
  • Check the computing for accuracy to ensure the proper closing balance is left in the account.
  • Prepare debit/credit advisement and trade blotter. Generate file and email various reports including rate sheet and cash-flow, daily activity, leave orders and order confirmations.
  • Support making necessary regular reports or materials of Treasury Investment.
  • Manage Money Market desk staff to ensure efficient daily operation.

 

Requirements

  • Education: Bachelor’s degree.
  • Experience: 4-8 years of relevant work experience
  • Language: Bilingual Japanese and English.
  • Strong analytical and financial modeling skills.  Ability to work with large data sets and understand balance sheet mechanics.  Experience in liquidity and/or modeling is a plus.
  • Diligent, flexible and open minded, open to diversity in job content and to cultural diversity.  Ability to multi-task and learn new skills.
  • Must be versatile, able to work effectively, independently, and as part of a team.
  • Proficient in Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, and other Office products (advanced).

Base salary up to 90K (Manager level, and 110K(AVP)+bonus

Accounting and Administrative Staff

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International Company is seeking an Accounting/Administrative Staff

Responsibilities:

Bank related assignments:

  • Post cash receipts to AR in NAV and generate daily cash receipts
  • Post cash payment to AP in NAV
  • Create weekly past due report
  • Organize and prepare the documents for bank account transfers, wires and ACH
  • Print out checks, assemble each check with the backup information and submit for approval and signature
  • Mail the signed checks with necessary payment stubs
  • Create account transfers, wires and ACH at bank site ready for approval
  • Keep an eye on cash balance of checking accounts so that cash is not getting short
  • Organize and file bank activity backup papers for daily reports and wires, ACH
  • Verify check occasionally

General accounting assignments:

  • Respond to account balance confirmation from customers/vendors
  • Issue advance receivable invoices to head office/group companies upon approval from General Managers
  • Post purchase/sales invoices
  • Monthly bank reconciliation and update major account reconciliation schedule including fixed assets, advance receivables and other items.
  • Assist to tax filing and filing schedules
  • Local tax filing (NYC rent tax etc.) and corporate registration for local government
  • Monthly closing such as creating monthly preliminary report by product, and monthly inventory reconciliation, running FX calculation in NAV, etc.
  • Fill out and send credit reference to our vendor’s agent
  • Inputting weekly FX rate in NAV
  • Assist Annual audit
  • Consolidated quarterly and yearly closing

General administrative assignments:

  • Manage communications addressed to the Company including phone, e-mail, letters, packages etc.
  • Manage, maintain and replenish office supplies and equipment including business cards, company stationary and arrangement for repair/trouble shooting.
  • Sending documents by FedEx, certified mail, etc

Requirements

  • 2 or more years’ experience in accounting position
  • College graduate (at least bachelors’ degree)
  • High organizational skills with the ability to multi-task
  • Process oriented with the ability to prioritize and manage to timelines
  • Well versed in Microsoft Office Suite software, ERP(preferably Microsoft Dynamics NAV) and advanced skills with Excel and Outlook

Base salary up to 60K, Hybrid

AVP, Financial Crimes – Int’l Bank

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International Bank is seeking an AVP, Financial Crimes who will be primarily focusing on compliance related systems, applications, and models to ensure they are operating effectively and as designed, to adhere to regulatory requirements.  This role is designed to be the Compliance liaison to Information Technology Group (“ITG”), Risk Management (“RMG”) and outside Vendors through the TPRM process, to coordinate, communicate and escalate issues as needed.

  • Monitor and maintain the Compliance systems such as Actimize and FIS Prime to ensure each are operating effectively; based on daily ready for business communication or a request for assistance from the Compliance team.
  • Enhance/implement vendor and internal tools which would require: business requirement documentation (“BRD”) development, inclusive of industry/departmental requirements, UAT testing, and detailed documentation, including desktop procedures.
  • Coordinate and engage in all Compliance system/model validations and internal/external testing. Draft and maintain all MRM model governance documentation, as it refers to Compliance systems and models.
  • Generate Compliance reports as required in each tool.
  • Assist with the Third Party Risk Management process within TPRMS.
  • Assist investigations and escalations on Sanction alerts.
  • Assist the BSA/AML Compliance team in monitoring, measuring and analyzing AML compliance risk.
  • Provide regular written updates to BSA/AML Officer and members of the monthly Compliance Committee as required.
  • Attend annual external training to keep abreast of BSA/AML industry changes.
  • Establish procedures and processes to maintain Compliance systems. Develop and implement Compliance analysis design and criteria.
  • Assist in the maintenance of the BSA/AML Compliance Program, and all Compliance policies and procedures.
  • Act as Business Manager to update Business Continuity Management related document, and review system/access related requests from ITG and APG for Compliance Department.
  • Participate in special projects as necessary.

 

Requirements

  • 6-8 years of relevant work experience, including prior experience with vendor onboarding and due diligence
  • Bachelor’s Degree
  • Tech Savvy (ability to learn new systems)
  • Transaction monitoring system experience preferred

 

Total compensation salary: 120-150K+bonus

Bilingual Japanese Credit Associate

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International Bank is seeking a credit analyst with Japanese language skills responsible for credit risk management and related administrative work. Works with and assists the Account Officer to service the Bank’s corporate clients. Develops and analyzes all types of credit information, completes all documents (including projections), prepares analysis and makes appropriate recommendations. Assists in relationship management and promotion of non-credit business as required.

  • Financial statement analysis of borrowers and their parent companies;
  • Preparation of credit applications, for new, renewals, amendments and extensions;
  • Preparation of various applications relating to non-credit business such as fee waiver, daylight overdraft, etc.;
  • Credit rating, both for borrowers and for each facility;
  • Credit monitoring including conducting covenant checks;
  • Assist in asset quality assessment;
  • Assist in relationship management and promotion of non-credit business with clients;
  • Information gathering related to clients’ business, industries and market competitors;
  • Correspondence with clients to answer various requests and inquiries;
  • Correspondence with other company offices to exchange information regarding company’s business strategy toward a specific client, business conditions of a parent company, etc.;
  • Request Loan/Credit/Non-Credit Agreement/documents to Legal department and provide & explain necessary background information and conditions to legal department for them to draft the agreements/documents

Additional tasks are;

  • Maintenance and updating of credit files;
  • Preparation for regulatory examinations and internal/external audits;
  • Preparation of credit documents;
  • Preparation of documents related to both credit and non-credit business;
  • Arrangement of business meetings with clients
  • Obtain a basic understanding of the applicable rules and regulations that govern the Bank;
  • Understand that all questions and/or clarification about such rules and regulations should be directed to the Legal & Compliance Department;
  • Attend Annual Compliance Training presented by the Legal & Compliance Department;
  • Read and respond as necessary to all compliance-related materials received. Comply with the Bank’s “Code of Conduct.

 

Requirements:

  • Bachelor’s degree or higher in Finance, Accounting, Business, or Economics
  • Work exp. in financial firms and public accounting firms preferred.
  • Effective verbal and written communication skills in both Japanese and English is required
  • Prior experience in financial statements / cash flow / credit analysis highly preferred
  • Good analytical, organizational and communication skills
  • Word, Excel, Access, and PowerPoint

Middle Office Analyst – Intl’ Asset Management Firm

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A Multi-billion-dollar global asset manager is seeking a Middle Office Analyst.

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Equity Research Analyst – Global Equity Investment

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An International Asset Management is seeking a Globa Equity Research Analyst focusing on high-quality growth stocks. The team is part of a global team that are located in Europe and in Asia. The individual will be covering companies in IT services and consumer staples sector.

Responsibility

· Maintain bottom-up research coverage on assigned industries (IT software, internet services, consumer staples).

· Independently and thoughtfully conduct equity research.

· Generate, develop, and present new investment ideas as well as monitor current investments to enhance risk-adjusted returns for the portfolios.

· Monitor the latest news/developments on the underlining stocks in the portfolio and evaluate the impacts on the stocks using qualitative and quantitative methods, monitoring macroeconomic news.

· Build and maintain complete company models, create income statement, balance sheet and cash flow forecast, and perform valuation analysis.

· Meet with company management on a frequent basis through on-site company visits, conference calls, and meetings in our office.

· Convery information verbally and through written notes and reports such as industry reviews, company evaluation analyses, and quarterly company updates.

· Communicate frequently with portfolio managers on industry and stocks in their portfolios.

· Participate in internal research meetings and portfolio review meetings with team members overseas.

Requirements

· BA/BS degree plus MBA and/or CFA, preferred

· 3+yrs’ of equity research experience. Buy-side experience preferred.

· Coverage experience in Health/Medicare Technology or Industrials a plus

· Strong fundamental analysis skills

· Extensive financial modeling and valuation skills

· Experience in Excel and Bloomberg

· Excellent communication skills both written and verbal

· Team Player

· Enthusiasm for finding compelling investment opportunities

 

Base salary: up to 190K+bonus

FVP Core Compliance – International Bank

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International Bank is seeking a FVP Core Compliance with the following responsibilities;

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Operations Associate/Assistant – International Financial Firm

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International Financial Firm is seeking an Operations Associate/Assistant

  • Confirm all daily trades; resolve any discrepancy with the counterparties; confirm all aspects of trades via various sources and ensure prior day settlement.
  • Perform daily collateral management of TBA in accordance with MSFTA including exposure review, collateral valuation, monthly interest calculations, and communicating with counterparties for margin calls.
  • Reconcile cash balances between internal accounting system and custodian banks.
  • Check daily price, and enter daily rates and benchmarks in the accounting system.
  • Monitor and check any irregularities for funds’ daily and monthly performance reports.
  • Check position reconciliations between internal systems and custodian banks, and investigate any discrepancies.
  • Prepare proxy, corporate action, and class action notices for front office
  • Verify future variation margin statements.
  • Monitor funds’ guideline rules, and investigate any breaches.
  • Generate internal notices and reports; distribute to relevant parties.
  • Prepare reports for counterparties, and client.
  • Participate in special projects assigned by Supervisor or Department Head.
  • Support all system requirements for the Operations Team.
  • Communicating with Japanese counterparts and affiliates.

 

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Economics, or equivalent work experience.
  • 2-3 years of experience in a buy-side asset management, or equivalent sell- side experience in trade confirmations, settlements, and collateral operations.
  • Strong knowledge of domestic and global Fixed Income required. Equity securities/instruments knowledge helpful.
  • An understanding of funds’ guidelines is a plus.
  • Ability to work 9:00am – 5:30PM, with flexibility to work overtime as needed including meetings with Japanese business affiliates.
  • Ability to work in a team environment and effectively interact with all levels of the organization.
  • Excellent communication and organizational skills with strong attention to detail.
  • Works well in a fast-paced environment: ability to prioritize, perform with high accuracy, and meet tight deadlines.
  • Working knowledge of standard computer software, including MS Excel, MS Word.

Base salary up to 70K+OT+Bonus

Money Market Trader – Treasury

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International Bank is seeking a Money Market Trader at their Treasury Desk;

  • Trade money market instruments (Repo, NDC, Term Deposit, etc.) and execute all short-term funding needs under the direction of chief-trader.
  • Monitor credit lines for potential problems and devise solutions to minimize bank’s risk exposure.
  • Acquire and analyze market information and report daily market activities to other traders/management
  • Control, reconcile and adjust the OPICS system, ensuring accuracy of all trade’s details.
  • Prepare internal rates table for quotes to Loan Administration team.
  • Input internal loan transactions into the OPICS system
  • Suggests trade recommendations for liquidity management.
  • Establish and maintain customer relations, including the preparation of proper materials.
  • Maintain and update customer data.
  • Prepare materials and make presentation for internal committee.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Business or related field.
  • Knowledge of the regulations which apply to the financial products being traded.
  • 3-5yrs’ money market trading experience
  • Excellent PC skills.
  • Superior communication skills and be able to demonstrate the ability to interface effectively with the team internally as well as external contacts/clients.

Base salary up to 110K+bonus

Accounting/Finance Manager

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A global technology company is seeking an Accounting/Finance Manager who will be responsible for consolidate accounting, accounting of affiliates, financial analysis of affiliates, and other financial and accounting work.

Finances/Accounting Management-80%

  • Ensures timely and accurate financial reporting to the head office
  • Develops and documents business processes and accounting policies to maintain and strengthen internal controls
  • Avoids legal challenges by understanding current and proposed legislation, enforcing accounting regulations, and recommending new procedures
  • Ensures annual financial audit by CPA firm to be complete on time and within budget
  • Oversees preparation of consolidated financials
  • Guides other departments by researching and interpreting the company’s accounting policy, GAAP and tax codes
  • Oversees accounting services to affiliates (3 or 4 affiliates)
  • Supports communication between parent company and subsidiaries for finance matters
  • Updates job knowledge by keeping up with new regulations, participating in educational opportunities, reading professional publications, maintaining personal networks, and participating in professional organizations.

Other& miscellaneous-20%

  • Assures work is completed promptly and efficiently
  • Seeks constant improvement, more efficient and less expensive ways and means in work processes.
  • Performs special projects and other miscellaneous duties as assigned by senior management
  • Maintains good communication with the management, staff members, and outside contacts.
  • Complies with all company policies and procedures

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Business, or related field
  • Seven years of experience in finance and accounting
  • A Certified Public Accountant (CPA) license is desirable, but not required
  • Experience in forecasting, financial diagnosis/analysis
  • Strong communications/interpersonal skills
  • Proficient in MS Office, ERP

 

Base salary: up to 85K+bonus