Legal Entity Controller

**Finance**:
Steward our firm’s capital, maximizing long-term success for our stakeholders through your financial insights, tools and frameworks.

**Your team responsibilities**

**What we offer you**
- At MSCI we are passionate about what we do, and we are inspired by our purpose - to power better investment decisions. You’ll be part of an industry-leading network of creative, curious, and entrepreneurial pioneers. This is a space where you can challenge yourself, set new standards and perform beyond expectations for yourself, our clients, and our industry.
- Wherever you are located you will find transparent compensation schemes and employee benefits that can help ensure your financial security and health. While they vary by different locations, we offer a broad range of benefits that are part of the value you receive as an MSCI employee.
- Our flexible ways of working will allow you to maximize your potential, and we will empower you with the trust, accountability, and advanced technology to perform at your very best.
- You’ll find a purposeful approach to wellbeing to provide you with all the resources you need to be your best at work and in your personal life. Our ‘Here For You’ Employee Assistance Program is available for our employees globally, providing confidential emotional support, financial and legal advice free of charge.

**Your key responsibilities**
- Legal entity accounting for different operating entities in the EMEA region, including detailed month end close procedures
- Recording of month end accounting journals, including accruals and other accounting adjustments
- Reconciliations of balance sheet accounts
- Finance approval of vendor invoices
- Local GAAP accounting: review of financial statements; cooperation with local accountants and tax advisors, assistance in external filings
- Review of tax declarations, payment of tax advances in cooperation with local tax advisors
- Assistance with external and internal audit enquiries
- Perform any other task assigned by line manager

**Your skills and experience that will help you excel**
- College or university degree in finance / accounting
- Specification in accounting is an advantage
- 3-4 years of professional experience in an accounting position.
- Experience of working within an international organization or in audit / accounting firm is an advantage.
- Strong accounting knowledge
- High attention to details and good analytical skills
- Good language skills: fluency in written and spoken English is required; other languages would be an advantage
- Strong PC skills, especially Excel
- High level of motivation, commitment to work hard and a desire to make an impact with all internal and external clients
- Team player and desire to work effectively with diverse cultures in a global organization

**How we’ll support you**
- Our culture of high performance and innovation relies on our people sharing their knowledge and lifting each other up. You’ll be surrounded by a collaborative, global network of talented colleagues who will support and inspire you to do the best work of your career.
- We believe new and challenging experiences drive personal growth and innovation. With the right challenges, encouragement, and development support you can shape your own career experience. Career paths are multi-directional, and we encourage and support internal mobility to help you identify new opportunities to progress and take control of your future.
- As a new joiner you’ll be enrolled on our Global Orientation interactive learning experience to set you up for success.
- At MSCI we act in ways that encourage respect for all voices, ensuring that everyone can be themselves and feel like they are a part of the company. We are intentional about ensuring that everyone is treated fairly and supported with equal opportunities to succeed.
- We have eight MSCI Employee Resource Groups: All Abilities, Asian Support Network, Black Leadership Network, Climate Action Network, Hola MSCI, Pride & Allies, Women in Tech, and Women’s Leadership Forum.

**About MSCI**

MSCI is a leading provider of critical decision support tools and services for the global investment community. With over 50 years of expertise in research, data, and technology, we power better investment decisions by enabling clients to understand and analyze key drivers of risk and return and confidently build more effective portfolios. We create industry-leading research-enhanced solutions that clients use to gain insight into and improve transparency across the investment process.

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