Controllers-Dallas-Associate, Financial Dallas Associate

Job Duties: Associate Financial Accounting with Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC in Dallas, Texas. Perform entity level accounting, including asset level data uploads, review of asset level activity and financial statements, journal entry preparation and input, monthly close procedures, and financial statement preparation, utilizing Yardi and related Investment Accounting systems. Address ad hoc requests for entity financial data with extensive use of Excel and Yardi applications. Prepare entity data to support the monthly entity level financial statement disclosures, the annual financial statement audit process and the quarterly and annual requests from tax accounting. Review the monthly close and financial statements prepared by analyst-level employees. Provide ad hoc training and support on accounting treatment to analysts and new hires. Ensure compliance with internal and external reporting requirements. Interface orally and in writing with other support areas, including tax, financial reporting, asset management, and operations. Complete asset acquisition/disposition processes as needed. Job Requirements: Bachelor’s degree (U.S. or foreign equivalent) in Accounting, Finance, or a closely related financial analysis field and three (3) years of experience in the job offered or in a related role. Must have three (3) years of experience with the following: working in granular, journal entry-based accounting, including experience preparing and/or reviewing journal entries to record business transactions. This involves training and overseeing analysts doing the same; identifying and preparing required disclosures for standalone financial statements and preparing entity information that flows into disclosures for a public company financial statements; deriving requirements in reporting and accounting expectations in deal documents, such as entity agreements, loan documents, and leases, to support financial reporting requirements including, but not limited to, investors, lenders, and regulators; and identifying and resolving reporting variances and writing effective explanations that describe the root cause of variances. Must have two (2) years of experience with the following: using GAAP and applying GAAP research provided during the course of collaborative research efforts related to financial reporting for investments, such as revenue recognition, loan and interest accounting, or other relevant areas of accounting. Must have one (1) year of experience with the following: completing and/or supervising monthly close procedures, preparing and reviewing financial statements in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP); and working with MS Office and Adobe suites, including Word for preparing and reviewing audit reports, Outlook for managing emails, meetings, and tasks, PowerPoint for creating training materials and presentations, OneNote for team collaboration on projects and portfolios, and Excel for organizing and analyzing large data sets using advanced formulas and functions. We offer a wide range of health and welfare programs that vary depending on office location. These generally include medical, dental, short-term disability, long-term disability, life, accidental death, labor accident and business travel accident insurance. We offer competitive vacation policies based on employee level and office location. We promote time off from work to recharge by providing generous vacation entitlements and a minimum of three weeks expected vacation usage each year. Financial Wellness & Retirement We assist employees in saving and planning for retirement, offer financial support for higher education, and provide a number of benefits to help employees prepare for the unexpected. We offer live financial education and content on a variety of topics to address the spectrum of employees’ priorities. Health Services We offer a medical advocacy service for employees and family members facing critical health situations, and counseling and referral services through the Employee Assistance Program (EAP). We provide Global Medical, Security and Travel Assistance and a Workplace Ergonomics Program. We also offer state-of-the-art on-site health centers in certain offices. Fitness To encourage employees to live a healthy and active lifestyle, some of our offices feature on-site fitness centers. For eligible employees we typically reimburse fees paid for a fitness club membership or activity (up to a pre-approved amount). Child Care & Family Care We offer on-site child care centers that provide full-time and emergency back-up care, as well as mother and baby rooms and homework rooms. In every office, we provide advice and counseling services, expectant parent resources and transitional programs for parents returning from parental leave. Adoption, surrogacy, egg donation and egg retrieval stipends are also available. Benefits at Goldman Sachs Read more about the full suite of class-leading benefits our firm has to offer. #J-18808-Ljbffr