What are the responsibilities and job description for the Corporate Accountant position at Global X ETFs?
Global X Management Company LLC ("Global X") is seeking a highly motivated professional to join the Finance and Business Management team. The successful candidate will work closely with senior Finance leaders, as well as Leadership across the firm, including C-level executives. Finance and Business Management entails a wide array of tasks and responsibilities pertaining to both day-to-day operations and long-term firm strategy, including but not limited to:
- Financial analysis and reporting
- Budgeting and forecasting
- Month-end close and consolidations
- Key vendor management
- Payroll and benefits administration
- IT management and infrastructure
- HR and recruiting
- Legal entity management
- Ad-hoc tasks as needed
The successful candidate will have the opportunity to perform meaningful financial planning and analysis and will be involved in a variety of global, cross-functional projects and initiatives. This is a very multi-faceted role where the successful candidate will perform a wide variety of functions while supporting the development of a best-in-class Finance and Accounting organization.
Primary Responsibilities
- Full p&l modeling, budgeting, and analysis
- Implement and produce accurate, timely, and meaningful KPI reporting
- Participate in monthly close and completion of reporting packages for Leadership
- Prepare supporting schedules for Leadership and external auditors
- Streamline and document various processes
- Manage relationships with key vendors
- Ad-hoc reporting/projects
Required Skills and Experience
- Bachelor’s Degree in a Business field, ideally Finance and/or Accounting
- Approximately 4-6 years total work experience
- Ability to independently interact with a wide array of stakeholders, including third parties
- Intermediate to advanced Excel skills are an absolute must (familiarity with lookups, index/match, sumifs, nested conditional statements, pivot tables, dashboard creation, etc.)
- Comfort with Excel based financial models. Must be able to quickly navigate and understand complex spreadsheets
- Knowledge of accountancy/bookkeeping or a willingness and capability to quickly develop this skillset
- A keen eye for detail and presentation
- Commercially minded across all tasks
- Proven success in conveying the “story” that succinctly summarizes various inputs and data
- Flexibility and willingness to take on tasks outside the scope of a traditional Finance role
- A versatile thinker able to run new tasks and projects
- Ability to operate in a fast-paced, at times ambiguous environment
- Extremely organized and able to manage various time-sensitive deliverables
Preferred Skills and Experience
- Big 4 or Finance/Accounting experience at a large bank or financial services firm is a BIG plus
- CPA is desirable but not required
- Project management
- Exposure to annual audit process
- Interest in and knowledge of markets and ETFs/financial products
- ERP implementation experience
- Familiarity with data analytics tools outside of Excel (eg. Python, R, Qlik etc.)
Our Offering
Global X offers a competitive salary and benefits package with a hybrid work schedule. We foster a fast-paced, performance-driven environment with attractive career opportunities and an open corporate culture that values and rewards individual contributions.
For New York City Only
The base salary range for this position is $80,000 - $100,000. Employees are also eligible for an annual discretionary bonus and a competitive benefits package. Total compensation may vary based on market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience
About Global X
Global X is the investment adviser to the Global X Funds and a New York-based provider of exchange-traded funds that facilitates access to investment opportunities across global markets. Global X was founded in 2008 with the mission of listening to and empowering clients to invest wisely in unexplored and intelligent solutions. With approximately $54 billion in assets under management as of January 2024, Global X currently offers exchange-traded funds in the Thematic Growth, Income, Core, International Access, Commodities, Alpha and Risk Management fund suites. For more information, please visit www.globalxetfs.com.
Salary : $80,000 - $100,000