Accountant III

Duration: 3 month Job Description – Required skills: Corporate Accounting experience
– research and investigate Technical accounting policy team Depository Receipts / Corporate Trust Revenue accounting
– understand fee schedules in contracts/terms Financial reporting
– SOX controls Monitoring control procedures.

Audits knowledge PeopleSoft/Oracle experience would be a huge plus MS Excel
– advanced Revenue accounting This role contributes to the accounting, finance, and control activities, primarily in support of the Issuer Services business, which includes the Corporate Trust and Depositary Receipts lines of business.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to the following:
• Completing core accounting activities, including: originating and processing general ledger transactions; participating in g/l and ICFR/Sox controls audits; maintaining control procedures; fulfilling adhoc requests in accordance with accounting process standards; performing intra-month and month-end accounting close processes; and identifying and completing continuous process improvements.

• Performing reconciliations of general ledger accounts or other financial data, and identifying, addressing and/or escalating issues, as needed.

Reviewing and/or approving journal entries and/or reconciliations completed by less experienced team members for accuracy and legibility and advising on improvements.

• Researching and understanding line of business specific systems and sub-ledger reports, including how systems and their related reports function and reconcile to the general ledger.

Understanding potential accounting improvement opportunities within these systems and working to proactively propose and implement improvement changes.

• Providing accounting guidance and oversight for IT systems enhancement and implementation projects (functional specifications / system design / UAT testing).

• Reviewing, understanding, and approving client contracts and client payments with a focus on system control and accounting implications, including working with customer service and relationship managers to accomplish these objectives.

Proactively elevating issues identified to accounting and line of business management and proposing solutions to potential issues.

• Working independently with business, audit, SOX, Technical Accounting, and finance partners to identify and aggregate accounting questions and research requests.

Partnering with senior management to timely track and resolve ongoing issues
• Attending various operational risk and controls meetings to identify accounting risks and opportunities for process improvement.

Tracking and cataloging material risk and control events and partnering with risk team and process owners to quantify and record/adjust accounting reserves.

• Completing various projects and training objectives to understand end to end business processes with accounting impacts and aggregate process flow to enhance knowledge base of Corporate Trust and Depositary Receipts lines of business.

Job Requirements: Required skills: Corporate Accounting experience
– research and investigate Technical accounting policy team Depository Receipts / Corporate Trust Revenue accounting
– understand fee schedules in contracts/terms Financial reporting
– SOX controls Monitoring control procedures.

Audits knowledge PeopleSoft/Oracle experience would be a huge plus MS Excel
– advanced Revenue accounting