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Senior Regulatory Reporting Accountant

Senior Regulatory Reporting Accountant

CompanyRaymond James Financial
LocationSt. Petersburg, FL, USA
Salary$Not Provided – $Not Provided
TypeFull-Time
DegreesBachelor’s
Experience LevelSenior

Requirements

  • Advanced accounting and reporting concepts, practices, and procedures.
  • Accrual based accounting practices.
  • Accounting and reporting software packages.
  • Generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP).
  • Reviewing, interpreting and analyzing financial statements.
  • Interpreting regulatory guidance and preparing regulatory filings.
  • Preparing financial statements and management reports.
  • Resolving unusual transaction and accounting discrepancies.
  • Researching GAAP issues.
  • Operating standard office equipment and using required software applications to produce correspondence, reports, electronic communication, spreadsheets and complex databases.
  • Implement changes to standard procedures when required by specific situations and circumstances.
  • Make independent decisions and solve more complex accounting problems.
  • Communicate effectively, both orally and in writing, with all organizational levels.
  • Explain or clarify financial information to all levels of management.
  • Provide training to others.
  • Organize, manage and track multiple detailed tasks and assignments with frequently changing priorities in a fast-paced work environment.
  • Provide a high level of customer service.

Responsibilities

  • Interprets the regulatory guidance and prepares financial regulatory filings.
  • Uses general ledger accounting software to prepare monthly financial statements and reports.
  • Researches and makes recommendations to resolve unusual or irregular transactions.
  • Reconciles general ledger accounts, prepares analyses and completes other monthly general ledger closing procedures.
  • Responds to internal/external auditor inquiries.
  • Prepares surveys to be submitted to industry organizations and publications.
  • Researches issues regarding the application of generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) to preparing financial statements and other financial reports.
  • Recommends process improvements to increase efficiency in processing or analyzing financial information.
  • Assists in training others.
  • Resolves complex accounting problems.
  • Performs other duties and responsibilities as assigned.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s: Accounting, Bachelor’s: Finance
  • General Experience – 13 months to 3 years
  • Certified Public Accountant (CPA) – Boards of Accountancy (NASBA)