Senior Product Control Accountant

Hudson River Trading (HRT) is seeking a highly motivated accounting professional with a background in financial services to join our Product Control team. In this role, you will support various functions within Product Control such as trading P&L reconciliation, financial product research, new trading onboarding, P&L attribution, and analysis. In addition, you will collaborate with developers to design and implement tools and reports relating to various trading reconciliation and reporting processes.

Responsibilities

• Perform daily T+1 trading P&L reconciliations across various asset classes, including trading gains/losses, dividends, interest, and commissions
• Prepare trading P&L attribution for traders and provide commentary on any reconciling/adjusting items
• Work with our Middle Office group and external brokers to reconcile daily position and cash breaks, as well as troubleshoot processing of corporate actions
• Perform month-end closing procedures associated with trading in both regulated and non-regulated entities across the globe
• Assist with onboarding new trading into existing technology and platforms, including post-trade and general ledger systems
• Perform necessary accounting research as needed, and provide recommendations to management for proper treatment of specific financial products and complex trading transactions
• Collaborate with other accounting functions (FP&A, legal entity control, external reporting, and regulatory reporting) to support overall business needs and manage trading-related financial information requests
• Work with our tax department to provide trading P&L analysis in connection with tax filings and new trading launches
• Collaborate with our Treasury group to maintain efficient margin and FX exposure across our brokerage accounts
• Assist in the creation and design of automated reports requested by management
• Test and utilize automated tools for reconciliation and profit reports, including utilizing Unix commands, SQL queries, and running scripts in Python
• Work with relational databases and set up reports using simple SQL queries

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in accounting/finance or other quantitative discipline
• 2 - 4 years of experience in a Big 4/large national accounting firm or relevant industry
• Investment accounting and financial product experience preferred
• Strong Excel skills; SQL/Python experience preferred
• Familiarity with AI prompting preferred
• A CA (Singapore), CPA, or equivalent professional qualification is a plus
• Excellent cross-functional communications skills; the ideal candidate will be articulate, persuasive, and tactful
• Meticulous attention to detail 
• Exceptional time management skills, including the ability to multitask within a fast-paced working environment
• This role requires close collaboration with our US team in NYC. Candidates should be comfortable with a flexible schedule that includes attending morning/evening conference calls (typically between 8 AM/PM – 10 AM/PM SGT) as needed
• This role requires occasional travel to the US