Job Description
Galileo Financial Technologies is seeking a Staff Accountant II to join their Controllership team. This role involves performing detailed account reconciliations, assisting in month-end and year-end close processes, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to research and resolve reconciling items. The Staff Accountant II will also work to streamline and improve reconciliation processes, analyze accounting documents, and prepare analytical reports.
What this role involves:
- Perform daily, weekly, monthly detailed account reconciliations
- Assist in the monthly and year-end close processes as well as assisting with year-endannual audit requests
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams within the finance, operations and engineeringorganizations to assist in researching reconciling items and clearing them in a timelymanner as well as thinking through how to prevent those items from happening again.
- Work to streamline and improve the reconciliation processes including automation withinthe reconciliation tool.
- Analyze accounts, journal entries, subsidiary ledgers, and other accounting documentsfor accuracy and completeness in connection with reconciliations.
- Identify reconciliation issues and work with senior team members to come up with aneffective execution approach
- Prepare complete and easy to follow workpapers explaining issue, procedures andconclusion
- Perform analytical review of the Balance Sheet and Income Statement
- Prepare or assist in developing and preparing analytical and statistical reports to driveleadership decision making around reconciliations
- Perform ad-hoc reports and analyses upon request in relation to reconciliations
- Work closely with Bank Operations, Accounts Payable, and Treasury departments toensure that transactions are recorded properly under U.S. GAAP
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance or Business or equivalent
- Applied working knowledge of U.S. Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP)and accounting procedures
- Strong organizational, analytical, mathematical, and project management
- A forward-thinking and hands-on approach
- A desire to learn
- Proactive and self-driven with the ability to think creatively within a flexible environment
- Strong knowledge of accounting theory and practice
- Computer skills, including Excel, Word, and general ledger and reconciliation systems
- Knowledge of balance sheets, income statements, and mathematical concepts such asfractions, percentages, and ratios
Nice to have:
- Experience with Workday Financials
- CPA certification is a plus
- Audit experience
- Prior work experience performing reconciliations and using a reconciliation system