Senior Accountant

Senior Accountant

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Job Type: Full-time

Seniority Level: Mid-Senior level

• Prepare monthly journal entries for all derivative instruments for which either Bank is a counter party to.
• Monitor Effectiveness for all derivative instruments accounted for as Accounting Hedges.
• Prepare monthly journal entries related to the Tax Provision for all legal entities.
• Prepare quarterly journal entries related to Deferred Taxes.
• Prepare monthly journal entries and quarterly reporting related to all CECL ACL Reserves.
• Perform monthly reconciliations of all General Ledger accounts related to areas of responsibility.
• Research reconciling items and propose corrective action as applicable.
• Communicate inter-departmental reconciling items as applicable, monitor responses, and escalates aged items as appropriate.
• Complete quarterly regulatory reporting for both Banks and the Holding Company.
• Respond timely to requests and inquiries from other team members within the department and throughout the Bank.
• Participate in departmental and bank-side projects as applicable.
• Assist with audits as needed.
• Learn and understand reporting in the general ledger.
• Assist with other related accounting functions within the department as assigned.
• Complete all internal Company training as assigned and required.
• Adhere to the Company’s privacy and data security policies including but not limited to safeguarding of sensitive information and complying with relevant regulations to protect non-public information.
• Exhibit the ability and desire to embrace and enhance the Company culture.

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Bachelor’s degree (B.A.) in Accounting, and/or five years related accounting experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• CPA License a plus, but not a requirement.
• Bank experience a plus, not a requirement.
• Experience with Prologue general ledger system a plus, but not a requirement.
• Experience with FIS core processing system a plus, but not a requirement.
• Proficiency in the MS Office suite for use in primary duties.

• Basic knowledge of the banking and financial services industry including federal laws and regulations.
• Willingness to gain new knowledge and technical skills.
• Intermediate typing skills to meet the production needs of the position.
• Intermediate math skills: the ability to calculate interest, commissions, proportions, and percentages; balance accounts; add, subtract, multiply, and divide into all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals; locate routine mathematical errors; compute rate, ratio, and percent, including the drafting and interpretation of bar graphs.
• Exceptional verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills with the ability to apply common sense to carry out instructions and instruct others, train personnel, read, analyze, and interpret documents and professional journals, understand procedures, write reports, correspondence, and procedures, speak clearly to customers and employees.

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to sit and talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to stand, walk;

use sufficient hand, arm and finger dexterity or feel objects, tools, and controls. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 10 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision.

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable…