Accounting Senior Analyst Job Description
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Accounting Senior Analyst Job Description
- Collaborate across the organization regarding intercompany activity and eliminations
- Prepare financial reports for various regulating entities
- Assist internal reporting and tie-outs
- Gain a thorough understanding of the operations and develop relationships with local finance team members at assigned business units
- Determine accruals for assigned accounts
- Invoice coding, routing and approval
- Communicate with vendors on invoices and account balances
- Revenue recognition and analysis
- Working with large data sets and many indicators to make projections
- Perform monthly close procedures and effectively execute all aspects of the close process
- Must have a bachelor’s degree or diploma in Finance / Accounting or related discipline
- Completed or near completion of an accounting designation CA, CGA, CMA
- Qualified CA with 2-3 years experience or MCOM, Inter CA, MBA preferred with 5-6+ years financial experience
- Facilitate ongoing review and analysis of HR efficiency opportunities
- Strong problem solving ability, organization and prioritization skills including good judgment and decision making
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment, handle multiple projects at the same time and still meet monthly
Accounting Senior Analyst Job Description
- Preparation various banking regulatory reports, including the quarterly Call and FRY Report schedules
- Perform analysis for monthly and quarterly financial statements
- Prepare/review monthly general ledger account reconciliations and prepare journal entries as needed
- Analyze draft/ newly released regulations and accounting pronouncements and work with reporting group to assess the reporting impact to the bank as well collaborate with both reporting and operations department to create an approach for enabling the bank to effectively meet the new reporting requirements
- Prepare financial statements, and various schedules used for preparation of quarterly 10-Q and annual 10-K filings
- Prepare various schedules for internal reporting requirements including the monthly Board package
- Prepare and review various schedules and reports for internal users and external auditors, and assist in the audit of financial statements and related footnotes
- Record monthly accounting entries, perform month end account reconciliations, investigation and resolution of outstanding amounts
- Key contributor to the month end close off process
- Prepare annual submission of taxable benefit information to US/Canadian payroll departments
- Lead special projects and ad hoc reporting needs
- Bachelor Degree, Accounting, CPA
- 5+ years of relevant accounting experience, including public accounting
- Driven, detail oriented individual who can meet aggressive deadlines
- Ability to work independently with minimal supervision and multi-task
- Bachelors' degree and CPA, CMA, or MBA highly preferred
Accounting Senior Analyst Job Description
- Ensuring the general ledger properly reflects the balance sheet and income statement costing activity
- Assisting with the monthly preparation of the Company’s consolidated financial statements
- Preparation of various journal entries
- Analyzing costs in comparison to prior year and budget
- Publishing month-end reports for managers in our field offices
- Reviewing brokerage transactions for proper treatment of revenue recognition
- Reporting daily cash transactions and balances to internal management and the monthly reporting of cash balances
- Reviewing cost requisitions and employee expense reports for adherence to Company policy and guidelines
- Assisting in the preparation of the company’s annual budget and quarterly projections
- Preparing the company’s annual financial audit workpapers and respond to auditor questions and requests for information
- 3 or more years of experience in Accounting and/or Finance
- Experience of applying GAAP to complex, large company situations
- CPA or Finance MBA
- Oracle, Essbase, HFM experience
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting required, MBA a plus
- 3+ years experience checking for US GAAP compliance
Accounting Senior Analyst Job Description
- Internal Control Deliverables and Support including Sarbanes Oxley Business Process Walk-Throughs, and Controls Desktop Applications Reviews
- Systems’ Project Requirements and Testing support as required
- Provide regular status updates to Senior Accounting Manager for the team to ensure project work is appropriately aligned and on track for delivery targets
- Account Reconciliation system and reporting coordination lead for the team
- Participate and assist with monthly, quarterly and yearly close process – financial statements
- Analyze complex data – prepare complex entries
- Complex financial analysis and modeling
- Actively participate and lead special projects
- Work with other leaders to improve processes and procedures
- Develop accounting procedures to support regulatory requirements
- Strong knowledge of GAAP and SOX
- Ability to communicate effectively with various levels of the organization in both written and oral interactions
- Experience with regulatory accounting
- Previous development of process improvement and implementation
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting/Finance or business related and 5 years of experience in accounting and/or controlling OR
- Master’s degree in accounting/finance or MBA and 3 years of experience in accounting and/or controlling experience
Accounting Senior Analyst Job Description
- Review and monitor building lease agreements in close partnership with the real estate team and properties FP&A
- Ensure real estate tax, common area maintenance, and other calculations are correct and properly updated as new information is obtained
- Perform, document, and test lease-related internal controls
- Research technical accounting issues related to leases, document conclusions and recommend accounting treatment to ensure internal and external reporting requirements are met
- Provide insight to the real estate team and properties FP&A regarding the accounting impacts of lease decisions
- Assist in the implementation of the lease accounting standard, ASC 842 Leases
- Responsibilities include support and oversight of junior staff
- Collaborate cross functionally with premium billing and finance teams, providing analysis that drives strategic decision making
- Accounting research and analysis of complex transactions
- Month end close including variance analysis, journal entries, accruals, and overall general
- Minimum three to five years of progressively responsible experience in GAAP and general ledger accounting
- Experience in applying internal control concepts and regulations
- High level of ethics, integrity, discretion and confidentiality
- Knowledge of Archer, Oracle, HFM and/or other end-to-end reporting system
- Public accounting experience or experience in administering SOX in a large organization
- 2+ years of corporate or public accounting