Senior Regulatory Reporting Accountant
Company | Raymond James Financial |
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Location | St. Petersburg, FL, USA |
Salary | $Not Provided – $Not Provided |
Type | Full-Time |
Degrees | Bachelor’s |
Experience Level | Senior |
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)