Accounting Operations Specialist

Job Summary:
An Accounting Operations Specialist should demonstrate commitment to delivering distinctive service. This position will be responsible for more advanced daily recons, various month end close tasks, and ensuring proper documentation is maintained within workpapers.

Job Duties and Responsibilities:

• Provide distinctive service to clients and prospects, in person and over the telephone. Respond to client inquiries and satisfactorily resolve client issues. Support firm-wide achievement of the three-ring standard (all phones answered by a live person within three rings). Reconcile numerous daily and monthly reconciliations of both general ledger and internal deposit accounts that may be more complex in nature, ensuring the reconciliations are completed timely and accurately. Review, track, investigate, and correct errors independently. Proactively communicate with appropriate third-parties, team members and/or departments to ensure items are cleared correctly and in a timely manner. Prepare month end journal entries and reconciliations related to various subsidiaries of the Bank and Holding Firm. Work with various subsidiary companies, including 3rd parties, to ensure information is received in a timely manner and month-end close timelines are met. Prepare and submit daily and weekly Regulatory Reporting to the Federal Reserve, while maintaining workpapers and ensuring filing deadlines are met. Prepare and submit quarterly and annual Federal and State Withholdings filings, while maintaining workpapers and ensuring filing deadlines are met. Set up registration for filing when transactions are identified in new states. Maintain clean and easy to follow workpapers for all reconciliations and journal entries; provide in a timely manner to auditor/examiner/co-worker as needed. Understand debits and credits and how an entry impacts the financial statements. Take ownership of assigned tasks; go beyond simply dropping in numbers, become the expert by understanding the flow of all the entries and how to research and resolve reconciling items. Meet all the client's financial needs, both business and personal, and refer clients to other specialty areas such as Trust, Investments, Insurance, Treasury Management, etc. as appropriate.

• Provide distinctive service to clients and prospects, in person and over the telephone. Respond to client inquiries and satisfactorily resolve client issues. Support firm-wide achievement of the three-ring standard (all phones answered by a live person within three rings).
• Each team member is expected to be aware of risk within their functional area. This includes observing all policies, procedures, laws, regulations and risk limits specific to their role. Additionally, they should raise and report known or suspected violations to the appropriate Company authority in a timely fashion.
• Meet all the client's financial needs, both business and personal, and refer clients to other specialty areas such as Trust, Investments, Insurance, Treasury Management, etc. as appropriate.
• Assist other team members as needed to ensure delivery of distinctive service.
• Performs other related duties as required.

The information on this description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job

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