Senior Accountant - Tampa, FL - Vimerse

Skills: Accountant, Financial Reporting, Financial Services, Public Accounting, Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (U.S. GAAP), IFRS, Balance Sheets, ad-hoc Reports, Financial Statements, SEC/FCA/OSC Filed Reports, Income Statements, Account Reconciliations, Transfer Pricing, Revenue Accruals, LE Accruals, General Ledger, Trial Balances, Accounts Payable, Payroll/HR, Billing, Collections, Treasury, P&L, GAAP

• The Legal Entity Senior Accountant is responsible for various entities, which entails:
• Prepare internal (balance sheets, P&Ls, ad-hoc reports) and external financial statements (SEC/FCA/OSC filed reports)
• Prepare fluctuation analysis of balance sheets and income statements.
• Prepare and/or review account reconciliations for balance sheet accounts impacting assigned legal entities and processes.
• Assist reconciliation center of excellence with resolution of open reconciling items.
• Prepare and post journal entries related to respective legal entities (transfer pricing, revenue accruals, LE accruals, etc.)
• Assist external auditors with year-end audits.
• Other duties as assigned from time to time.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Completes month-end close activities across our multi-currency, multi-entity, and jurisdictional environment such as preparing and/or posting journal entries to accounts (transfer pricing, revenue accruals, LE accruals, etc.), maintaining general ledger, and review of trial balances.
• Prepare fluctuation analysis of balance sheets and income statements for assigned legal entities.
• Prepare and/or review account reconciliations for balance sheet accounts impacting assigned legal entities and processes.
• Assist reconciliation center of excellence with resolution of open reconciling items.
• Prepare internal (balance sheets, P&Ls, ad-hoc reports) and external financial statements (SEC/FCA/OSC filed reports)
• Assist external auditors with year-end audits.
• Identify control gaps and work with line Manager to devise resolution for risk and control process documents.
• Establish, maintain, report, and continually improve performance against a set of effectiveness and efficiency benchmarks.
• Work and communicate with the various departments i.e. Accounts Payable, Payroll/HR, Billing, Collections, Treasury and General ledger Reconciliation teams in order to ensure a smooth month end close.
• Other duties as assigned from time to time.
• Aligns risk and control processes into day-to-day responsibilities to monitor and mitigate risk, advances appropriately.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Minimum of 4 years of related experience
• 4-7 years of progressive financial reporting and accounting experience, in the financial services industry or with a major public accounting firm.
• Good understanding of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (U.S. GAAP) and IFRS.
• Bachelor's degree preferred or equivalent experience.
• Intense attention to detail
• Fondness towards fixing broken processes and unafraid to challenge the norm.
• High problem solving and analytical skills, ability to connect the dots.