1. Position Requirements Worksheet
Founded in July of 2012, Thalēs Trading Solutions LLC (“Thales”) is a registered Independent
Introducing Broker (“IB”) with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (“CFTC”) and National
Futures Association (“NFA”). Thalēs was created with the specific purpose of providing value added
support and services to users of global futures and foreign exchange markets. The Thalēs team brings
a wealth of knowledge and experience and primarily focuses its effort on building and maintaining
strong, long‐standing partnerships with its clients. Thalēs provides its clients with access to top‐tier
Futures Commission Merchants (“FCMs”) and enhances and simplifies our client’s relationships with
their FCMs by providing customized solutions, broker aggregation reporting and reconciliation tools
and other value‐added services.
Position Title: Controller / Bookkeeper
Education: Open
Salary Range: Open
Hours of the Job: Part Time – 20 to 30 hours per week, days / hours are flexible
The individual must be organized, have excellent verbal and written skills and be technically oriented.
They must be fluent in Microsoft Outlook, Excel, Word and QuickBooks. Knowledge of Google Apps,
specifically Google mail, calendar, contacts and drive would be beneficial.
Basic Function: The bookkeeper position creates financial transactions and creates financial reports
from that information. The creation of financial transactions includes posting information to
QuickBooks from invoices to customers, bank transactions and vendor invoices. The bookkeeper will
also reconcile QuickBooks accounts to the bank and be responsible for some basic regulatory, payroll
and tax reporting.
Desired Qualifications: The bookkeeper candidate should have an Associate's degree in accounting or
business administration, or equivalent business experience, as well as knowledge of bookkeeping and
generally accepted accounting principles. Preference will be given to candidates with a working
knowledge of the QuickBooks accounting software package as well as those with basic LLC tax reporting
knowledge and Futures Industry experience.
Principal Accountabilities:
1. Pay supplier invoices in a timely manner
2. Issue invoices to customers
3. Reconcile and ensure that receivables are collected promptly
4. Conduct a monthly reconciliation of every bank account
5. Monitor, compile and complete all CFTC and NFA reporting requirements for an Independent
Introducing Broker “IB”.

2. 6. Create the quarterly tax estimates for the partners of the firm.
7. Monitor and reconcile various IB payments from the firm’s broker partners.
8. Payroll
9. Assemble information for and be the primary contact with our external auditors and oversee the
annual audit
10. Conduct periodic reconciliations of all accounts to ensure their accuracy
11. Issue financial statements
12. Provide information to the external accountant who creates the company’s financial statements
and regulatory reporting.
13. Calculate and issue financial analysis of the financial statements
14. Maintain an orderly accounting filing system
15. Maintain the chart of accounts
16. Maintain the annual budget
17. Tag and monitor fixed assets
18. Calculate variances from the budget and report significant issues to management
19. Comply with local, state, and federal government reporting requirements
20. Process payroll in a timely manner
21. Provide clerical and administrative support to management as requested
Supervises: None