Audit & Financial Reporting Manager at DV Trading (Chicago, IL)Audit & Financial Reporting Manager

About Us:

Founded 20 years ago and headquartered in Chicago, the DV Group of financial services firms has grown to more than 600 people operating throughout North America, Europe and Asia. Since spinning out of a large brokerage firm in 2016, DV Trading has rapidly scaled as an independent proprietary trading firm utilizing its own capital, trading strategies, and risk management methodologies to provide liquidity to worldwide financial markets and hedging opportunities to commodity producers and users. Now, DV group affiliates include two broker dealers, a cryptocurrency market making firm, and a bourgeoning investment adviser.

Overview:

We are seeking an experienced Audit & Financial Reporting Manager to manage the firm’s external audits and financial-statement preparation across its domestic and international entities. This individual will coordinate with external auditors, prepare supporting schedules and financial statements, evaluate accounting matters under U.S. GAAP and IFRS, and help ensure that the firm’s accounting records are complete, accurate, and audit ready. The ideal candidate will have strong audit and technical-accounting experience, excellent Excel skills, and the ability to understand complex trading activity and multi-entity financial statements. Experience with broker-dealers or other regulated financial institutions is strongly preferred.

Key Responsibilities:

• Manage annual financial-statement audits for the firm’s U.S. and international entities.
• Serve as a primary point of contact for external auditors and coordinate audit requests across internal teams.
• Develop and manage audit timelines, deliverables, open-item lists, and completion deadlines.
• Prepare complete financial statements, including footnotes and supporting disclosures, under U.S. GAAP, IFRS, and applicable local reporting requirements.
• Prepare and review audit schedules, account reconciliations, roll-forwards, lead sheets, and supporting documentation.
• Review trial balances and accounting records to identify errors, unusual balances, or required adjustments before the audit begins.
• Research and document complex accounting matters under U.S. GAAP and IFRS.
• Prepare technical accounting memoranda and support the firm’s accounting conclusions.
• Coordinate audit support across Accounting, Tax, Treasury, Legal, Compliance, Operations, and Trading teams.
• Review consolidations, intercompany balances, related-party transactions, foreign-currency activity, and multi-entity reporting.
• Assist with accounting for trading positions, derivatives, investments, revenue, expenses, and financial instruments.
• Maintain audit-ready documentation and strengthen financial-reporting controls.
• Track proposed audit adjustments and ensure that approved entries are accurately recorded.
• Improve and standardize audit and financial-reporting processes across the firm’s entities.
• Support regulatory examinations and other financial or accounting reviews, as needed.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance, or a related field.
• Approximately 5–10 years of relevant audit, accounting, or financial-reporting experience.
• Strong knowledge of U.S. GAAP and IFRS.
• Demonstrated experience preparing or reviewing audited financial statements and footnote disclosures.
• Strong understanding of accounting principles, financial-statement presentation, and account reconciliations.
• Advanced Excel skills, including complex formulas, pivot tables, data analysis, large-data reconciliation, and financial-statement support schedules.
• Strong project-management skills and experience coordinating multiple audits or reporting deadlines.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Exceptional attention to detail and the ability to identify accounting or reporting issues independently.
• CPA or equivalent professional accounting qualification preferred.
• Public-accounting experience, particularly with financial-services clients preferred.
• Experience with proprietary trading firms, broker-dealers, hedge funds, investment managers, or other financial institutions preferred.
• Knowledge of broker-dealer accounting, regulatory reporting, and SEC financial-responsibility requirements preferred.
• Familiarity with trading products such as equities, options, futures, fixed income, swaps, and other derivatives preferred.
• Experience coordinating audits across the United States, United Kingdom, and Asia-Pacific regions preferred.
• Experience with consolidations, intercompany accounting, foreign currencies, and multi-jurisdictional financial reporting preferred.

Benefits:

• Discretionary bonus eligibility
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• HSA, FSA, and Dependent Care Options
• Employer Paid Group Term Life and AD&D insurance
• Voluntary LTD, Life & AD&D insurance
• Flexible Vacation policy
• Retirement plan with employer match

DV is not accepting unsolicited resumes from search firms. Only search firms with valid, written agreements with DV should submit resumes in response to DV’s posted positions. All resumes submitted by search firms to DV via e-mail, the Internet, personal delivery, facsimile, or any other method without a valid written agreement shall be deemed the sole property of DV, and no fee will be paid in the event the candidate is hired by DV. DV is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. The range below reflects the expected base salary for this position. It represents a good-faith estimate of the base pay we anticipate offering, with actual compensation determined by your experience, education, skills, and performance throughout the interview process. This role is also eligible for a discretionary bonus (at DV Trading's discretion) and DV Trading's benefits package, including the benefits listed above.

Base Salary Range $130,000—$160,000 USD