Role/ Responsibility:
- Bank Reconciliations - Conduct bank reconciliations for bond-related cash flows, ensuring accurate matching of interest payments, principal receipts, and trade settlements between bank statements and accounting records. High-volume, routine reconciliations with minimal complexity
- Asset Reconciliations - Perform asset reconciliation for bond portfolios, ensuring accurate alignment between internal accounting systems, custodial records, and trade data, with timely resolution of discrepancies related to interest, principal, and settlement activities.
- Financial Statement Preparation: Generate balance sheet and P&L reports using Prologue Financials and/or QuickBooks, ensuring accuracy and completeness for client reporting.
- Bond Accounting Activities: Accurate posting of journal entries related to bond transactions (interest income, amortization, pay-downs, and realized gains/losses)
- Variance Analysis: Identify and explain variances in reconciliations and financial reports, and recommend corrective actions to improve accuracy and efficiency.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to enhance automation, streamline workflows, and improve data integrity in bond accounting processes.
Qualifications/Required Background
- Bachelor's/ Master's degree in Accounting, Finance, or another related field.
- Accounting certification such as Chartered Accountant / CPA / ACCA
- At least three years of experience in accounting and financial reporting
- Hands-on experience with bank reconciliations, asset reconciliations
- Hands-on experience in preparing and posting journal entries (JEs) across multiple entities
- Experience in building financial statements using trial balances and ledgers
- Specialized knowledge in bond accounting is highly desirable.
- Experience with QuickBooks and Prologue is a plus.
- Expert level skill in Excel.
- Detail-oriented, analytical, and able to communicate clearly with both technical and financial stakeholders.
- Self-starter with a strong sense of ownership and responsibility.
- Strong interpersonal skills and ability to effectively communicate verbally and in writing, and collaborate internally and externally.
- Ability to effectively manage multiple deadlines and work in a fast-paced, rapidly changing environment.
