Team Overview:
The Cash & Investment (C&I) team is a part of the Global Financial Services (GFS) organization within Client to Cash (CTC). The C&I team is responsible for the timely and accurate posting of all cash transactions, reconciliation of related balance sheet accounts, and processing of certain investment activity and reporting. Our team works collaboratively with: Treasury, Payroll, Firm Tax, Accounts Payable, Cash Application, Information Technology Services, International Accounting, Partners Accounting, Financial Reporting & General Ledger Group, Merger & Acquisitions, and US Firm’s Lead Controllers.
Job Responsibilities:
Cash & Investment Processing
- Oversee the processing and posting of incoming and outgoing cash daily for all US Firm cash accounts via the Electronic Bank Statement process
- Lead end-to-end process reviews to identify inefficiencies or areas of risk and work with management to establish new controls and reporting solutions
- Lead the end-to-end balance sheet review process, certify and asses aged account activity, and take action to solve problems
- Assist with establishing guidelines and polices and enforce internal controls to help safeguard the Firms’ assets
- Ensure timely resolution of cash-posting exceptions
- Ensure processes and controls are documented
- Process and post investment activity
- Provide guidance on appropriate accounting treatment of journal entries
- Partner with customers in maintaining strong internal controls
- Serve as a liaison for non-Cash & Investments meetings, which will include actively tracking and managing actions and deliverables
- Partner with peers within the GFS to share ideas and collaborate on ways to improve service offerings and processes
- As needed, provide direction and education to internal clients on department processes
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting/Finance
- 5+ years of relevant experience
- Experience leading and developing teams
- Proven decision-making ability in ambiguous situations
- Experience leading issues from identification through remediation
- Self-starter with the ability to take ownership of processes and projects
- Proficient in SAP accounting software, Microsoft Excel, and PowerPoint
- Experience with software development lifecycle (SDLC), including but not limited to business analysis, requirements gathering, and testing
- Proven ability to manage confidential information appropriately and professionally
- Experience working with internal and external auditors
- Good written and verbal communications and organizational skills
- Detail-oriented with strong problem-solving, analytic, communication, writing and presentation skills
- Ability to think critically and apply appropriate levels of challenge to workstream plans, risks, issues, and dependencies
- Experience in dealing with multiple projects and cross-functional teams, and ability to coordinate across teams in a large matrix organization environment
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