Junior Staff Accountant

Position: Junior Staff Accountant

Location: New York, NY

Salary: $60K – $70K

NYC based Savings Bank seeks a Junior Staff Accountant to join their Team!

Responsibilities

• Primary Accountabilities/Responsibilities:
• Record journal entries and prepare account reconciliations.
• Assist in month end closing, financial reporting, and variance analysis.
• Prepare assigned quarterly Call Report schedules.
• Assist in preparing and analyzing monthly financial statements, reports, and operational reporting of the bank and its subsidiaries.
• Supports the development, review and analysis of the Company’s consolidated financial budget and forecasts.
• Assist in analyze expenses for trend and variance analysis and prepare necessary accruals.
• Maintaining the bank’s fixed asset accounting, including recording of newly acquired fixed assets, tracking existing assets and recording depreciation.
• Prepare quarterly CAPEX report that track actual vs. budget CAPEX items.
• Maintains the Company’s lease accounting, including initiation and review of lease documents, recording of newly signed leases and preparation of supporting schedules as needed.
• Manage Bank’s tenants’ lease contracts, prepare monthly invoices, update rent accruals and track monthly payments.
• Support internal and external audits with various financial information and analysis, and aids with the resolution of problems as required.
• Prepare annual real estate tax protest process. Complete annual RPIE Real Property Income Expense.
• Monthly Sales Tax and quarterly commercial rent tax returns
• Back up Accounts Payable and Secondary Market functions

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or related field
• Knowledge of financial accounting principles and concepts in order to perform tasks listed in Major Duties and Responsibilities above.
• Ability to set and meet deadlines including strong ability to manage and perform multiple tasks to completion at the same time.
• Knowledge and ability to perform mining of data, analysis, and reporting.
• Proficient with MS Excel, Word and Outlook.