Job title: Senior Accountant
Knight Capital Funding is searching for an energetic, dynamic and experienced professional to staff our Senior Accountant role. If you are seeking an outstanding opportunity with a company that is experiencing tremendous growth – we want to speak with you.
Description:
The Senior Accountant (SA is responsible for verifying the accuracy of company and investor cash balances. Merchant cash balances and providing the amounts to the Accounting Manager and CFO on a daily basis. The SA is responsible for validating exception items identified through the daily reconciliation process. He/she is responsible for developing, communicating, and ensuring compliance with cash control policies and procedures.
Responsibilities:
- Oversight and knowledge of all account balances provided
- SA will understand financial policies and reporting procedures, contract types, and billing terms
- Daily reconciling of accounts including the corresponding journal entry impact
- Participating in the preparation of month end closing financial statements
- Optimizing accounting process workflow through system enhancement
- Develop cross-functional relationships to identify opportunities to enhance controls over cash handling and reporting procedures
- Develop and communicate procedures and controls regarding all aspects of cash handling and reporting
- Effectively set priorities to review and resolve open items, ensuring that:
- The most important issues are identified, and
- The current status of open items is continually updated
- Review and sign off on daily and monthly balance reports
- Identify and escalate to appropriate levels of management any material risk items that have been identified
Skills & Qualifications:
- Have a positive attitude
- Ability to work independently and within a team structure.
- Must possess exceptional skills in all forms of communication.
- Must be an expert in Microsoft Excel (Vlookups, Pivot Tables, Sumifs & other advanced formulas)
- Must have a good understanding of cash controls in high volumes
- Must be extremely detail oriented while being able to quickly process large amounts of data
- Must have executive presence and the ability to take command and control of his or her immediate work environment.