Senior Accountant - Vice President, hybrid

Description

Performance Trust

Since 1994, we have pioneered revolutionary analytics, education, and decision-making with like-minded teammates and clients to deliver outperformance. We create unimaginable futures together with game-changing insights, advice, world-class execution, and accountability to results.

Headquartered in Chicago, IL, our 370 team members are based in 11 global locations. We are a rapidly expanding broker-dealer, investment bank, investment advisor, and strategic partner for depositories, capital markets issuers and investors, and the full spectrum of institutional market participants. Today, we are the largest full-service private investment bank focused on community depositories. As a 100% employee-owned company, we align together on our core values of Integrity, Accountability, Excellence, Grit, and Love.

Description

To oversee, manage and assist (for more complex items) in our month-end close and regulatory reporting processes. This can include, but is not limited to: 

• Ensuring all month-end journals are booked and balance sheet reconciliations have been completed with reconciling items fully resolved. 

• Ensuring all intercompany transactions are booked appropriately with equal and opposite offsets.

• Reviewing and accounting for commissions paid to sales staff.

• Ensuring all treasury activity within a given month not coming through accounts payable is accurately and timely recorded in the general ledger.

• Ensuring the accurate calculation of principal and interest of all firm positions at month-end, which include a growing and diverse product base. 

• Reviewing the work of junior accounting staff. 

• Assisting in the preparation of month-end financial statements. 

• Assisting in the filing of monthly regulatory reports and related supplemental filings.

• Assist in month-end fluctuation analysis and other ad-hoc financial analysis.

• Participate in the year-end Audit and various regulatory and tax reviews. 

• Help develop and maintain accounting processes and controls for new products, lines of businesses, etc. 

• Help build and formalize financial reporting control processes.

• Help maintain the propriety of the general ledger. 

Requirements

Experience

· 5-7 years of accounting experience (public accounting – audit, public accounting – tax, or financial reporting/accounting policy/corporate finance in the financial services industry).

· Private/Public blend of accounting experience ideal

· Broker dealer experience ideal 

Education / License Requirements

· Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting or Finance

· Current, active CPA license (preferred)

Required Skills, Knowledge, Characteristics

 Skills/Knowledge

• Knowledge of US GAAP

• Strong Excel skills including PIVOT tables, VLookUps, and SumIF statements 

• A working knowledge of the securities/ banking industry – Fixed Income experience preferred

• Familiarity with lease accounting and revenue recognition accounting standards

Characteristics critical to success:

• Strong Communicator – Someone who can communicate up and down stream in a clear and concise manner. 

• Organized – Someone who can keep track of multiple processes simultaneously to ensure goals and objectives are achieved. 

• Accountable – Someone who owns processes and holds themselves accountable for their and their team’s work. 

• Technical strong – Someone who is technically proficient in accounting and applying accounting to the fixed income securities business. 

• Problem solver – Someone who can find solutions for complex financial transactions.