Financial Reporting Accountant Job Description
Financial reporting accountant
provides timely, accurate and compliant record to report services including statutory reporting in accordance with IFRS or new UK GAAP.
Financial Reporting Accountant Duties & Responsibilities
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Sample responsibilities for this position include:
Performs a variety of accounting tasks including but not limited to preparing journal entries, reconciling various balance sheet accounts, processing and reconciling interfacing sub-systems to the general ledger, and preparing workpapers and internal schedule based on financial results
This person will be responsible for internal and external reporting more complex than the entry level position
Duties will also include involvement with specialized projects on an as needed bsis in conjunction with management and/or senior staff
Consolidation and review of 10Q/10K support from reporting units
Providing support for the quarterly earnings release process
Interaction with business unit controllers departments, , other Corporate departments
Participating in special projects as may arise
Complying with Sarbanes Oxley Sec
Working with external auditors on quarterly reviews and year-end audit
Control and validate global expense allocations
Financial Reporting Accountant Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Licensing or Certifications for Financial Reporting Accountant
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: CPA, CFA, SOX, F5
Education for Financial Reporting Accountant
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the financial reporting accountant job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Associate Degree in Accounting, Finance, Education, Business, MBA, Business/Administration, Management, Communication, Economics, Public Accounting
Skills for Financial Reporting Accountant
Desired skills for financial reporting accountant include:
Microsoft Office
Financial Reporting would be advantageous
Financial services industry
US GAAP
GAAP
SAP
Basic office and PC applications
Excel
IFRS
Reporting and general ledger systems
Desired experience for financial reporting accountant includes:
Bachelor of Science Degree in Accounting preferred with two to three years prior accounting experience preferred
Knowledge of consolidations, investments, currency translation adjustments, goodwill, cash flows
Ensure timely cash settlement of intercompany charges
Create robust analytics process around expense reporting
Resolve issues, project execution, and prioritization of consolidation related issues
Participate in the financial close process (review of journal entries, financial statements, and supplemental reporting)
Financial Reporting Accountant Examples
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Financial Reporting Accountant Job Description
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Our company is growing rapidly and is looking to fill the role of financial reporting accountant. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for financial reporting accountant
- Reviews statement of cash flows each month end for internal and external reporting
- Preparation of monthly revenue share statements
- Preparation of cost allocations and related journal entries
- Prepare invoices and check requests where applicable
- Assist with preparation and analytics of related party transactions
- Assist with the capitalization of website development and internal-use software costs in accordance with SOP 98-1 and EITF 00-02
- Report fund economics to Management Company for use in public filings (10Q, 10K)
- Submit reconciliations to fund administrator records
- Provide information requests to Investor Relations
- Assist in the preparation of SEC and other regulatory filings to include the 10K, 10Q, footnote disclosures
Qualifications for financial reporting accountant
- Minimum 3-5 years relevant accounting experience (Big 4 and private experience preferred)
- 4 year college degree (BS Accounting)
- 1-2 years Financial Accounting experience would be a bonus
- Minimum five years combination of Corporate Accounting and Public Accounting experience
- Yardi or Timberline Financial Management consolidation and reporting tools
- Real estate or property management industry a plus
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Our growing company is hiring for a financial reporting accountant. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for financial reporting accountant
- Ensuring tax compliance deadlines are met
- Completion of 13 sets of statutory accounts
- Assist with the preparation of internal executive financial statements and external SEC filings
- Prepare electronic work papers to support filings
- Support XBRL tagging and review process
- Involvement in preparation and review of the earnings press releases, earnings conference call scripts and other financial data summaries
- Support external audit requests and department’s compliance with ICOFR
- Compiles regular and ad-hoc reports summarizing and analyzing financial results
- Prepare and submit annual capital budgets for the plant
- Participate in meetings and discussions around capital planning and budgeting
Qualifications for financial reporting accountant
- Continually assess processes to improve efficiency, reduce risk or cost, to increase job satisfaction
- 3-5 years of solid accounting experience, preferably experience in internal/external reporting or any combination of each
- Thorough knowledge of accounting principles and procedures, CPA preferred or CPA candidate
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting is required or an equivalent combination of education, training and experience that would provide the knowledge, skills and ability required in performing the job
- Well organized, detail oriented – will need to track own progress on a number of tasks
- Experience preparing and/or auditing SEC filings
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Our company is hiring for a financial reporting accountant. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for financial reporting accountant
- Communicate effectively both orally & in written form with internal departments and external bodies
- Work closely with Team Leader on various new processes / projects
- Assist in the preparation of quarterly earnings release documents
- Assist with reconciling earnings release with SEC documents
- Assist in SEC reporting including 10-Q's and 10-K's
- Assist in consolidations using Consolidation tool
- Utilize Essbase to prepare and review financials and ad hoc reports to be distributed to management and others
- Utilize Equity Edge Online for purposes of Stock Based Compensation calculations and review the work of other team members who prepare the calculations
- Prepare monthly equity compensation, goodwill and intangible asset reconciliations
- Prepare monthly share counts reconciliations
Qualifications for financial reporting accountant
- Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to work with people at all levels in a confidential and professional manner, across a variety of geographies and cultures
- CPA strong preferred
- Industry Knowledge – Strong understanding of Custody, Funds Management and Superannuation fund industries
- Technical Expertise – Thorough understanding of Australian Accounting standards
- Ability to work under pressure and plan ahead to meet multiple client delivery deadlines
- Understanding of corporate actions and unit price functions
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Our company is growing rapidly and is searching for experienced candidates for the position of financial reporting accountant. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for financial reporting accountant
- Maintains financial databases, computer software systems and manual filing systems
- Provide support for the quarterly earnings release process
- Participate in special projects as may arise
- Preparation of consolidated financial statements and management reports on monthly, quarterly and annual basis
- Prepare audit and related roll forward schedules
- Prepare support schedules for consolidation analysis, such as consolidated cash flows schedules, intercompany foreign exchange journal entries, and consolidation elimination reports
- Prepare various ad hoc reports and analyses for management through Insight and JDEdwards
- Apply strong knowledge of chart of accounts to verify proper general ledger account coding and coding of vendor transactions
- Reconcile various general ledger accounts on a monthly basis, including cash, receivables, fixed assets, intercompanies, payables, deferrals
- Prepare and input journal entries and determine appropriate accruals to be made monthly
Qualifications for financial reporting accountant
- Capital expense reporting
- Preparing accrual entries
- An undergraduate or Master's degree in Accounting
- Prepares monthly and quarterly journal entries
- 2+ years of experience of SEC financial reporting
- One to two years of public accounting experience preferred
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Our growing company is looking for a financial reporting accountant. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for financial reporting accountant
- Timely and accurate delivery of global audit workpapers and data requests (planning, interim and final)
- On-going coordination and communications with global vendors, including external audit firm and third party accountants, and foreign offices
- Special reporting and analysis projects, as requested
- Prepare reporting for Institute on Aging
- Prepare reporting for claim service utilization
- Support reporting through preparation of claims schedules
- Prepare annual clinical cost report
- Prepare Medicare revenue breakdown in support of accounts receivable
- Maintain intercompany matrix of charges supported by intercompany agreements
- Maintain coding for UltiPro and Plexis
Qualifications for financial reporting accountant
- Preparation of ERISA and statutory insurance financial statements
- Assist in various other ad hoc projects
- Strong organizational skills, research skills and attention to detail
- Strong and demonstrated analytical skills and problem solving skills
- CPA or other Equivalent Professional Certification preferred
- Bachelor’s degree required preferably in Finance/Accounting field