Service Delivery Center - Financial Document Review Analyst

Service Delivery Center - Finance Tax Analyst

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This position is responsible for preparing fiduciary/court accountings for professional fiduciaries, attorneys, banks, trust companies, individuals, and family offices. The analyst will key in or download financial data into fiduciary accounting software to produce accurate reports in a volume-driven environment within deadline-driven time frames established by our client needs.

• Prepare fiduciary accountings for trusts, estates, conservatorships, guardian ships, and foundations in multiple jurisdictions throughout the United States pursuant to the governing documents, state specific principal and income rules and jurisdictional requirements.
• Help train and mentor associate analysts.
• Prepare more complex accountings typically involving multiple accounts and/or custodians for a broad base of clients including banks, trust companies, brokerage firms, attorneys, individual and professional fiduciaries.
• Review and determine that all required source documents have been received prior to starting the accounting. Confer with client and/or supervising manager if additional documentation is required.
• Review and interpretation of trust instruments, wills, IRS Form 706 and K-1s to determine proper treatment for fiduciary accounting purposes.
• Review and interpret source data (e.g., bank statements, brokerage statements, checking accounts, loan documents), and exercise judgement in how to allocate transactions properly between principal and income and where to place the transactions on the appropriate fiduciary accounting schedule.
• Exercise judgement to determine if a disbursement is a trust expense or a distribution.
• Perform a self-review before submitting work product to supervising manager for review.
• Communication with clients.
• Participate in special projects.
• Participate in internal and external training to maintain and enhance knowledge of fiduciary law and software applications.
• Regular interaction and communication with immediate supervisor, and all department/company coworkers.
• Ability to organize and maintain personal account workload and meet all deadlines.
• Maintain annual firm required CPE credits.
• Develop an understanding of EY service offerings.
• Build knowledge about risk management and independence.

• Knowledge of current fiduciary accounting concepts required to prepare fiduciary/court accountings.
• Comfortable working with attorneys, trust officers and family offices.
• Experience in reviewing and interpreting trust and estate documents and financial data to prepare accountings.
• Experience working with the Thomson Reuters FAS accounting system.
• Strong technical skills in basic computer software applications, including Microsoft Word, Excel, company specific systems and Quicken.
• Strong verbal and written communications skills.
• Attention to detail.

• A bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance or economics preferred, but not required.
• Professional Fiduciary, National Certified Guardian or paralegal certification preferred, but not required.

• Two to four years of experience in preparation of fiduciary accountings.
• A paralegal with trust and estate knowledge, is preferred.

• We offer a comprehensive compensation and benefits package where you’ll be rewarded based on your performance and recognized for the value you bring to the business. The base salary range for this job in all geographic locations in the US is $55,300 to $91,300. The base salary range for New York City Metro Area, Washington State and California (excluding Sacramento) is $66,500 to $103,600.
• Individual salaries within those ranges are determined through a wide variety of factors including but not limited to education, experience, knowledge, skills and geography.
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