Accountant

The Accountant is responsible for accounting and reporting functions related to the Company's various capital markets transactions. This includes maintaining accounting systems, booking journal entries, reconciling the general ledger, resolving issues with Treasury back office, ensuring compliance with relevant accounting standards, maintaining a strong controls environment, and analytical reporting and reviewing of results. The incumbent will have the opportunity to assist with the accounting duties across the different portfolios within the Capital Markets Accounting group. This job requires flexibility in work hours as extended hours may be required during monthly close and other peak periods.
This is a hybrid role with 2 days a week out of our Herndon, VA office.
Essential Job Functions:
1. General Ledger Accounting

• Create journal entries to accurately account for various entities cash activity and balances
• Set foreign currency spot rates based on contractual agreements and create corresponding journal entries
• Implement and create new templates for cash system to reflect new banking activity
• Ensure accurate new general ledger account creation
• Prepare accounting entries for invoices received relative to the Company's secured financings
• Prepare accounting entries for non-facility Revolving Credit Agreements
• Monitor and clear inter-company balances

2. Monthly/ Quarterly Reporting

• Create and maintain internal and external reports
• Review and maintain various excel spreadsheets used for monthly analysis and reporting of monthly results
• Prepare quarterly reporting used to support disclosures included in SEC Forms 10K/Q
• Create and complete accurate ad hoc reporting

3. Customer Service

• Liaison with IT, Front Office, Back Office, Financial Reporting and other departments within the Company
• Participate in cross-training relative to the Company's Secured Debt and Swap portfolio
• Respond to internal/external audit inquiries in a timely manner
• Assist with internal and external audit requests and management testing

4. Accounting and Treasury System Maintenance

• Update secured deals in Principia timely for capitalized invoices and ensure they are reconciled to the inventory of invoices outstanding.
• Approve trades associated with structured finance collateral transactions.
• Maintain and create accounting templates within cash system
• Update Foreign Currency rates in the Oracle G/L
• Participate in UAT and parallel testing as needed for our financial systems
• Assist with new deal issuances for the Company's securitization trusts and the creation of debt and derivative instruments in Principia

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:

• Bachelor's Degree - Accounting, Finance, Economics
• 0-2 years of accounting/finance experience or back office/middle office experience
• Strong Microsoft Excel skills
• General Ledger software (e.g., Oracle, PeopleSoft, etc.) experience
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Strong communication skills

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• CPA candidate
• Debt and/or derivative accounting experience
• Back Office or Middle Office experience

All offers of employment are contingent on standard background checks. Navient and certain of its affiliated companies are federal, state and/or local government contractors. Should this position support a Federal Government contract, now or in the future, the successful candidate will be subject to a background check conducted by the U.S. Government to determine eligibility and suitability for federal contract employment for public trust or sensitive positions. Positions that support state and/or local contracts also may require additional background checks to determine eligibility and suitability.
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