Senior Accountant

Senior Accountant with an Atlanta-based financial services company.
 

Summary

The Senior Accountant will be responsible for a mix of accounting, monthly close, account reconciliations, and financial reporting duties.

Responsibilities

• Prepares accounting entries in multiple areas, such as investment securities, loans, allowance for credit losses, and other areas as needed.
• Ensures proper settlement of investment securities transactions, execute wire transfers between accounts as needed, and communicate appropriately with safekeeping third parties and internal bond accounting.
• Prepares balance sheet reconciliations in accordance with Company standards.
• Reconciles and resolves discrepancies for many of the bank and subsidiaries general ledger accounts.
• Analyzes monthly general ledger variances and provides support explaining primary causes.
• Conducts research and resolves accounting-related issues at the direction of the Assistant Controller.
• Prepares data from multiple sources to support the loan loss reserve analysis (CECL).
• Supports the internal and external audit processes by providing information as needed and answering questions.
• Acts as back-up for other accounting team members when needed and assists in developing enhanced accounting related tasks with the goal of increasing accuracy and delivery speed.
• Complies with bank procedures and follow regulatory, operational and security guidelines.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics or Business.
• CPA preferred.
• 3+ years of experience of accounting work experience is preferred (public, private, or combination).
• Experience with the monthly closing process, cash reconciliation, creating and entering journal entries, and maintenance of general ledger.
• Experience in bank or financial services industry is preferred. 
• Experience with accounting GL systems, banking core processing systems, and reconciliation software.
• Advanced user of complex spreadsheets for financial analysis, including leveraging functions such as pivot tables, SUMIFS, XLOOKUP, and data filtering.

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