Job Specification - Position: Consultant |
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JOB ID:
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559 |
Date posted:
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23/07/2010 |
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Vacancy:
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Consultant |
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Work Type:
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Contract |
Sector:
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Financial Services |
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Location:
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London but can be home based |
When Required:
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Immediate |
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Business Description:
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Devon Capital LLP provides global investors with mathematical, legal and capital markets expertise in:
- CDO analysis and restructuring
- Dispute resolution of complex financial claims
- Litigation management of complex financial cases
- Consulting and testifying experts
- Fund unwind and liquidation price verification
- Discovery analytics for text and excel documents
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Role Description:
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They are seeking a CDO accounting expert for immediate consulting position They need someone to start reviewing documents immediately to produce (i) summary report on what they find (ii) prepare key questions to ask accountants from our adversary. We have deep understanding of the product, but the accounting view would be useful additional detail.
There is an immediate piece of work for about a week to 10 days followed by expert witness work and longer term opportunities. |
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Experience &
Skills Required:
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Ideal candidate will be former Big 4 partner or senior in-house audit/control manager in charge of CDO accounting policies. Must have direct experience of policy formulation and accounting for synthetic CDOs under FAS.
Additional details are:
- Candidate must have actually been a senior accountant in the group responsible for reporting on CDOs
- This means complete understanding of accounting for liability side (usually called "master swap" or similar) and asset side (ie "cash pool" or similar)
- Ideally in-house from investment bank, but buyside acceptable if right experience
- Understanding of CDO model validation and stress testing as applied to CDOs an advantage
- Ideally, would have been active in this between 2001-2007
- US FAS (133) experience preferable, and IAS treatment also useful
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Business Type:
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Consultancy |
Salary:
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£500 a day |
Benefits:
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