Staff Accountant

Staff Accountant

If you are someone wanting to make a difference in the communities that we serve and join the strongest large bank in Kansas City, then Security Bank of Kansas City has a career for you. In addition to our compensation and benefits packages, Security Bank offers full-time employees 11 paid holidays, rewarding and challenging growth opportunities, generous paid time off and discounted banking services.

Position Summary

The Staff Accountant supports the bank's accounting and finance functions by preparing general ledger reconciliations, journal entries, financial reporting support, budgeting assistance, regulatory reporting support, audit documentation, and financial analysis. This position helps ensure accurate and timely financial reporting, compliance with GAAP and regulatory requirements, and effective support for business lines across the bank.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

The duties include but are not limited to the following:

• Support accounting and reconcilement activities related to bank operations, including deposit, loan, investment, borrowing, fixed asset, accrued expense, and prepaid expense accounts, as assigned.
• Prepare general ledger postings and daily and monthly journal entries; assist with review and reconciliation as assigned.
• Assist in the preparation of budgets and forecasts, working closely with business units.
• Assist in data analytics processes to identify trends, variances, and KPIs across business lines.
• Assist in the preparation of regulatory filings, including the FFIEC Call Report.
• Assist with monthly close processes, including preparation of journal entries, reconciliations, schedules, and supporting documentation.
• Use Microsoft Excel, including pivot tables and formulas, to support financial models, data analysis, reconciliations, and reporting.
• Maintain appropriate supporting documentation, review evidence, and audit trails for assigned reconciliations, journal entries, reports, and schedules.
• Assist business units with accounting-related questions, reporting support, variance explanations, and other financial matters.
• Perform other duties and projects as assigned.

Required Skills & Abilities

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skills, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Proficiency with Microsoft Excel and accounting or financial reporting systems; ability to learn core banking, general ledger, reconciliation, and reporting platforms.
• Strong analytical, organizational, and communication skills.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team in a deadline-driven environment.
• Ability to interact in person, by phone, and in writing with internal customers, business partners, and co-workers.
• Ability to work under short time frames and deadlines for completion of work.
• Strong attention to detail skills with a demonstrated ability to produce accurate and quality work.

Minimum Education & Experience

• Bachelor's degree in accounting, finance, or a related field required.
• 2+ years of experience in accounting and financial reporting, preferably within a financial institution environment.
• Strong understanding of GAAP and financial reporting.
• Accounting foundation is required, along with Excel and data analytics skills.

Valued, but not required skills & experience

• Knowledge of FFIEC and FRB reporting and requirements, including Call Report.
• Familiarity with banking systems (Jack Henry, SilverLake experience a plus).
• Experience with Power BI, Power Query, or report automation preferred.
• Prior experience in community banking or financial services preferred.

Physical Demands & Work Environment

The physical demands and work environmental characteristics described here are representative of those that must be met by the employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Physical Demands: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to walk, talk, see and hear. The general level of physical activity would be defined as sedentary. The employee is occasionally required to stand and frequently required to sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms. Some movements of the hands, arms, and wrists may involve repetitive motions. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus. Regular attendance and punctuality are necessary and essential functions.
• Cognitive/Mental Requirements: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is required to comprehend and use basic language, either written or spoken, to communicate information and ideas, both simple and complex. The employee is also required to use logic to define problems, collect information, establish facts, draw valid conclusions, interpret information and deal with abstract variables for unique or unfamiliar situations; also requires use of problem-solving skills including formulating and applying appropriate course of action for routine or familiar situations. The employee may be required to perform numerical operations including basic counting, adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing or more complex quantitative calculations.
• Work Environment: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is inside a central heat and air-conditioned office building. The noise level in the work environment is minimal.

Statements included in this job description are intended to describe the general nature and level of work performed by the employee(s) assigned to this job. The statements are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of responsibilities, duties and skills required.

Accommodations will be made to allow for meeting requirements when it does not place an "undue hardship" on Security Bank of Kansas City.

Security Bank of Kansas City is an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer.