Senior Accountant

Role Overview

• Support accounting for fixed income trading (corporate bonds, municipals, treasuries, ABS, CDs, VRDNs)
• Support accounting for fixed income underwriting activities (corporate bonds, municipal bonds, ABS, Broker CDs and Rule 144A offerings)
• Assist with securities borrowing and lending transactions
• Record and analyze repurchase and reverse repurchase agreements
• Support accounting for defeasance transactions and VRDN remarketing activities
• Prepare daily, monthly, and quarterly journal entries for capital markets and broker-dealer products, including trade date and settlement date accounting, accruals, valuations support, and balance sheet reconciliations.
• Prepare accounting close deliverables, journal entries, substantiations, and account reconciliations for assigned products and legal entities.
• Partner with operations and product control teams to understand end-to-end transaction flows and ensure accounting conclusions aligned with business activity and system processing.
• Support accounting analysis for complex transactions, new products, and non-routine events.
• Support internal and external financial reporting for the broker-dealer, including legal entity reporting and consolidation inputs, as applicable
• Maintain balance sheet and P&L integrity
• Ensure compliance with U.S. GAAP and internal controls
• Assist with audit requests and documentation
• Partner with regulatory reporting teams for data consistency
• Work closely with capital markets desk operations, treasury, regulatory reporting, internal and external audit teams and product control teams
• Assist with accounting support for system implementations and process improvements

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in accounting or finance, or equivalent work experience
• Typically Five to eight years of experience in financial accounting activities
• Knowledge of U.S. GAAP and financial reporting
• Experience with reconciliations and month-end close
• Strong Excel and data analysis skills
• Familiarity with capital markets or broker-dealer products preferred
• Hold FINRA Series 99 or be able to pass testing within 4-month window (120 days)
• Strong technical accounting judgment
• Understanding of capital markets products and operational flows
• Attention to detail and control orientation
• Ability to manage competing priorities in a deadline-driven environment
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to translate complex product activity into clear accounting conclusions
• Effective cross-functional collaboration
• Continuous improvement mindset

Benefits

• Healthcare (medical, dental, vision)
• Basic term and optional term life insurance
• Short-term and long-term disability
• Pregnancy disability and parental leave
• 401(k) and employer-funded retirement plan
• Paid vacation (from two to five weeks depending on salary grade and tenure)
• Up to 11 paid holiday opportunities
• Adoption assistance
• Sick and Safe Leave accruals of one hour for every 30 worked, up to 80 hours per calendar year unless otherwise provided by law