Senior Accountant

Discover. A brighter future.

With us, you’ll do meaningful work from Day 1. Our collaborative culture is built on three core behaviors: We Play to Win, We Get Better Every Day & We Succeed Together. And we mean it — we want you to grow and make a difference at one of the world's leading digital banking and payments companies. We value what makes you unique so that you have an opportunity to shine.

Come build your future, while being the reason millions of people find a brighter financial future with Discover.

Job Description:

What You’ll Do

• Ability to focus on several moderately complex business activities. Demonstrate subject matter expertise by advancing more technical concepts unique to role, problem-solving and analysis. Regularly engaged with business partners or auditors to facilitate understanding of transactions and activities. Assess the design and operating effectiveness of the control environment over the areas of responsibility. Requires moderate degree of judgement for the appropriate application of Corporate Policy, GAAP, Regulation or established framework. Regularly makes evaluations of facts and circumstances and is able to effectively communicate conclusions and recommendations for remediation or process improvements. Able to advance responsibilities and/or priorities largely independent of management oversight. Promote a risk-aware culture, ensure efficient and effective risk and compliance management practices by adhering to required standards and processes.

• Actively manages and escalates risk and customer-impacting issues within the day-to-day role to management.

How You’ll Do It

• Completes accounting control activities, such as account reconciliations, journal entries, and month-end close review.  Each requires gathering or reviewing the relevant supporting details from source reporting and/or business partners and taking action based on independent review.  Demonstrate subject matter expertise and ability to apply independent judgment in decision-making to advance more technical components of own responsibilities.  Role may also require routine review and/or approval of work completed by others.

• Performs monthly close routine in support of responsibilities within the team assigned.  This may include representing team during meetings and completing specific financial reporting schedules or month-end variance analysis.

• Represents role and awareness of broader team functions in cross-functional teams to independently support the advancement of priorities in areas of responsibility, new business initiatives and/or resolution of production events, the scopes of which may evolve over time and be long-term in nature.  Independently lead projects unique to role and engage business and technology partners as needed to support advancement and implementation.

• Provides financial reporting, audit, and compliance support by satisfying all requests timely and accurately with requested information.

• Manages the flow of wide scope of transactions impacting role through various internal and external systems as well as support related system testing efforts, trouble shooting and requirements gathering. Serve as primary contact to facilitate mapping of new transactions and ensure all such transactions are appropriately reflected to support accurate financial reporting. 

• Independently identify and implement control improvements and process efficiencies relating to role, supporting automation and a stronger control environment.

Qualifications You’ll Need
The Basics

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance or related

• 2+ years of experience in Accounting, Finance or related field 

• In lieu of a degree, 6+ years of experience in Accounting, Finance, Banking or related

Physical and Cognitive Requirements
The physical requirements described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable a qualified individual with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the position as required by federal, state