Senior Accountant

Overview

This role is for a Senior Accountant responsible for incentive processing, daily bank activity coding and recording to the general ledger, daily bank account reconciliations, merchant settlements reconciliation, month-end close and reconciliations, journal entries, escheatment, and audit support.

Responsibilities

• Handle treasury activities related to incentive processing, including prefunds, reimbursements, and variance reconciliations.
• Code and record bank activity to the ledger; transfer funds and reconcile bank accounts daily.
• Apply customer payments and resolve unapplied payments timely.
• Set up wire payments via bank portals and verify payment information.
• Match merchant settlements to reports and upload details to ERP.
• Assist with month-end close.
• Complete month-end reconciliations and analyze variances.
• Prepare, process, and record journal entries related to cash and incentives, including supporting documentation.
• Provide support to internal and external audits.
• Prepare ad-hoc reports and support special projects as assigned by management.

Requirements

• 8+ years of relevant experience.
• Bachelor’s degree in accounting, required.
• Proficiency with complex reconciliation and variance analysis, required.
• Intermediate-level Excel is a must.
• Experience with bank portals, payment applications, and merchant settlements is required.
• Prior experience as a cash or treasury accountant.
• Ability to perform assigned tasks based on objectives with minimal supervision.
• Excellent time management skills; ability to manage competing priorities and meet deadlines.
• Strong, self-starter who is organized and efficient.
• Ability to exercise sound judgment when interpreting policies and procedures, including knowing when to escalate issues.
• Strong MS Excel skills, including VLOOKUPS, TEXT functions, Pivot tables, and data import/export.
• Ability to identify discrepancies, reconcile variances, and solve problems independently.
• Take ownership of assigned work to ensure deliverables are completed timely and free from errors.
• Advanced knowledge of accrual accounting concepts.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills; ability to communicate professionally with all levels and work through organizational change and growth.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with accounting systems, especially WorkDay.
• JPM Access portal experience.

Compensation & Benefits

Not specified in the provided description.

Location

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