Senior Accountant - Fiduciary Accounting

Overview

A North America Commercial Risk Controllership team is seeking a Senior Fiduciary Accountant to support daily fiduciary accounting activities and month-end processes. This role involves maintaining audit-ready documentation, resolving issues promptly, and ensuring strong financial controls while collaborating with Controllership, Treasury, Operations, IT, and other business partners.

Responsibilities

• Prepare, review, and analyze account reconciliations in compliance with company policy, SOX requirements, and fiduciary accounting standards.
• Investigate aged reconciling items and collaborate with stakeholders to achieve timely resolution.
• Support weekly fiduciary cash true-up calculations by analyzing trial balance, receivables, payables, commissions, fees, bank, and subledger activities to identify funding needs.
• Monitor fiduciary suspense accounts, identify root causes of unmatched activity, and recommend actions to reduce recurring suspense items and manual journal entries.
• Prepare and review fiduciary journal entries, intercompany adjustments, and close-related accounting activities to ensure accurate financial reporting.
• Participate in testing and documentation of assigned SOX controls, including evidence preparation, control performance documentation, deficiency follow-up, and remediation support.
• Prepare management reporting and analysis to communicate reconciliation status, suspense aging, funding requirements, monthly interest receivable forecasts, process issues, and control observations.
• Contribute to process improvement, automation, and standard operating procedure initiatives.
• Maintain and update Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) memorandums for fiduciary accounting processes.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and organizational skills.
• Preferred experience with fiduciary accounting.

Compensation & Benefits

• Salary range for U.S. applicants: $80,000 - $92,000 annually, varying based on education, experience, skills, abilities, internal equity, market data, and geographic location.
• Eligible to participate in an annual discretionary bonus plan.
• Comprehensive benefits package including:
  • 401(k) savings plan with employer contributions
  • Employee stock purchase plan
  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance
  • Various types of leaves of absence
  • Paid time off including 12 paid holidays and 15 days of vacation annually
  • Paid sick leave as per state and local laws
  • Short-term and optional long-term disability insurance
  • Health savings account and dependent care reimbursement accounts
  • Employee and dependent life insurance, supplemental life and AD&D insurance
  • Optional personal insurance policies
  • Adoption assistance
  • Tuition assistance
  • Commuter benefits
  • Employee assistance program with free counseling sessions

Eligibility for benefits is governed by applicable plan documents and policies.

Location

• This is a virtual position.
• For applicants in San Francisco and Los Angeles, employment consideration will be given to qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records in accordance with local Fair Chance ordinances.

Additional Information

• Management reserves the right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities at any time.
• The organization does not accept unsolicited resumes from search firms for this position and will not compensate for candidate submissions from search firms.