Senior Investment Accountant

Overview

The Senior Investment Accountant (Senior) reviews, reconciles, and audits investment data, ensuring the timely and accurate reconciliation of custodial data in the firm's investment accounting and general ledger systems. The Senior works closely with others on the investment accounting team as well as other departments to prepare, review, and deliver reports and insights for internal and client use. The Senior role requires critical thinking, organization, time management, proactive communication, and training and mentoring skills.

Key Areas of Responsibility

• Serve as partner and backup to the Lead.
• Serve as subject matter expert for the firm's investment accounting and general ledger systems.
• Reconcile investment accounting and general ledger data to custodial records.
• Provide audit oversight of data across multiple systems to ensure timely and accurate investment valuation, cost basis and transaction data.
• Ensure cost and market values are synchronized between investment accounting and general ledger.
• Troubleshoot and timely resolve reconciliation issues to meet deadlines.
• Lead team process for downloading custodial data to enable timely and accurate data and reconciliation.
• Train and develop Investment Accountant on policies, procedures, and systems.
• Collaborate with the Investment Accounting Lead (Lead) and others to ensure adequate cross training and procedures to provide backup or succession.
• Maintain user defined data, department views and reports in investment accounting system.
• Prepare and scan assigned accounting reports to document management system.
• Collaborate with the Lead to develop, train, and maintain department policies, procedures, user manuals, workflows, and performance metrics.
• Implement the client quarterly financial statement process to ensure timely and accurate deliverables, including:
  • Oversight of reconciliations and journal entries to meet reporting deadlines.
  • Serve as process owner and staff resource for issue identification and resolution as the arise.
  • Collaborate in client financial statement production, review, and distribution process.
  • Review client financial statements for accuracy and completeness prior to distribution.
  • Define and maintain department workflows in document management system.
• Serve as wire approver, ensuring accuracy and compliance with policies and procedures.
• Advance best-in-class accounting policies, processes, insights, and reporting.
• Lead or actively participate in department meetings, projects, and initiatives.
• Assist in the development and maintenance of calendars, performance indicators, workloads, workflows, and other tools to effectively monitor and measure department performance and outcomes.
• Maintain professional and technical knowledge through self-initiated professional development.

Professional Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in accounting, finance, or business. Relevant professional certifications a plus (CPA, MBA, CFA).
• 6+ years of demonstrated operations or accounting success in the financial, accounting, or professional services.
• Curious, goal oriented, and initiative-taking with a passion for leading transformative change.
• Strong financial and operational analytic and problems solving skills.
• Expertise and experience developing or implementing accounting principles and processes.
• Expertise in traditional and alternative investments, accounting treatments, reconciliation, and systems (e.g., Clearwater, Caissa, Addepar, Advent, JD Edwards).
• Strong organization, accounting, and operations capabilities
• Advance proficiency in Microsoft Excel. Strong working knowledge of PowerPoint, Word, and Outlook. Experience with PowerBI or Tableau a plus.
• Exceptional interpersonal, consultative, and critical thinking skills.
• Strong analytic, verbal, written, and presentation skills.
• Ability to balance multiple priorities, projects, and deadlines.
• Ability to proactively identify, assess, and implement process and client service improvements.
• Maintain a prominent level of integrity and discretion while managing confidential information.

Benefits Overview

Waycrosse, Inc. provides employees with a comprehensive benefit program including but not limited to medical, dental, life, vision, retirement (401K), vacation time, sick time, and disability plans.

Working Conditions

The physical working conditions of this position include an office environment where sitting and working on a computer for extended periods of time are common.

Hybrid Work Environments

We operate a hybrid work environment. Employees are required to be in the office Wednesdays and a minimum of two other days per week, for a total of three days in office and two days remote. This work arrangement is subject to change at the discretion of Waycrosse.