Sr. Accountant

Senior Accountant
Direct Hire
Local to Tampa, FL
ABOUT COMPANY: With 50 years of experience, the company is a premier post-trade market infrastructure for the global financial services industry. Through its subsidiaries, automates, centralizes, and standardizes the processing of financial transactions, mitigating risk, increasing transparency, enhancing performance, and driving efficiency for thousands of broker/dealers, custodian banks, and asset managers. Industry-owned and governed, the firm innovates purposefully, simplifying the complexities of clearing, settlement, asset servicing, transaction processing, trade reporting, and data services across asset classes, bringing increased security, enhanced resilience, and soundness to financial markets.
JOB DESCRIPTION:
The Senior Accountant owns routine and ad hoc responsibilities in the Financial Accounting and Reporting organization.
The Senior Accountant is a part of a multidisciplinary accounting team that excels at delivering accurate and timely results by using their accounting knowledge, holding each other accountable and collaborating across the organization.
The accounting team assists other Finance teams throughout the year, finds opportunities for process improvements, assists with reporting functions, participates in testing and validations for system implementations and updates, participates in year-end audit work, assists in mergers, acquisitions, or divestitures, researches accounting guidance, and prepares accounting transaction research and memos.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
Join our team and make an impact in the month-end close process across our multi-entity, multi-currency, global enterprise by preparing and/or posting journal entries to the general ledger accounts (internally developed software, lease accounting, transfer pricing, revenue, and other accruals), and taking ownership of the respective general ledger trial balances.
Grow your career by learning from well-rounded experienced leaders and have ambitions to rotate positions within the Finance organization.
Find opportunities for process improvements and automation and participate in design and testing for the new processes and systems.
Obtain an understanding of business by preparing fluctuation analysis of balance sheets and income statements for assigned legal entities.
Ensure books and records are accurate by preparing and/or reviewing balance sheet accounts' reconciliations. Support the reconciliation center of excellence by assisting with the timely resolution of open reconciling items.
Assist external auditors and internal auditors with audit support.
Contribute to overall team's performance to ensure the team meets the Company established standards for effectiveness and efficiency and reaches departmental goals and benchmarks.
Ensure a smooth month-end close process by working across various departments i.e., Accounts Payable, Payroll/HR, Billing, Collections, Treasury and General Ledger Reconciliation teams.
Be empowered to do things the right way by raising issues without fear, identifying control gaps and aligning risk and control processes in day-to-day responsibilities, and monitoring and ensuring controls are functioning as intended.
Aligns risk and control processes into day-to-day responsibilities to monitor and mitigate risk; advances appropriately.
QUALIFICATIONS:
Bachelor's degree in Accounting preferred, or equivalent recent experience (e.g., posting GL entries, preparing account reconciliations and variance analysis, knowledge of US Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (U.S. GAAP))
4 to 7 years of progressive accounting and/or external financial reporting experience, preference given to those from multinational entities, with mid-size ($10M-$50M in revenue) or large-size company (above $50M in revenue), or with a major public accounting firm.
Hands-on mentality and strong attention to detail
Ability to work in a fast-paced environment.
Fondness towards fixing broken processes and be unafraid to challenge the norm.
High problem solving and analytical skills, ability to connect the dots.
Solid understanding of U.S. GAAP