Accounting Manager- Capital Markets​/Broker-Dealer

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The Accounting Manager will support the accounting, financial reporting, and control environment for a clearing capital markets broker dealer with a diverse fixed income and securities financing activities. This role will be responsible for managing accounting activities across a range of products and transaction types, including fixed income trading, fixed income underwriting, securities borrowing and lending, repurchase and reverse repurchase agreements, defeasance transactions, and VRDN remarketing activities.

This position requires strong broker-dealer product knowledge, technical accounting expertise, operational understanding of trade lifecycle events, and the ability to work cross-functionally with front office, operations, treasury, product control, regulatory reporting, and external/internal audit teams. The Accounting Manager will play a key role in ensuring accurate financial reporting, a robust control framework, and operational readiness in a highly regulated environment.

Manage and oversee accounting support for the following products and activities:

• Fixed Income Trading

• Corporate bonds

• Brokered CDs

• Municipal bonds

• U.S. Treasuries

• Asset-backed securities (ABS)

• Variable Rate Demand Notes (VRDNs)

• Fixed Income Underwritings

• Corporate bonds

• Municipal bonds

• ABS

• Brokered CDs

• Rule 144A offerings

• Securities Borrowing and Lending

• Firm stock borrow / stock loan

• Corporate bonds lending/borrowing activity where applicable

• Repurchase and Reverse Repurchase Agreements

• U.S. Treasuries

• Corporate bonds

• ABS

• Other Capital Markets Activities

• Defeasance transactions

• VRDN remarketing

• Oversee daily, monthly, and quarterly accounting activities for capital markets and broker-dealer products,including trade date and settlement date accounting,accruals, valuations support, and balance sheet reconciliations.

• Review accounting treatment for trading inventory, underwriting positions, financing transactions, and related revenue/expense recognition.

• Ensure completeness and accuracy of accounting for:

• Trading gains/losses

• Underwriting fees and deal-related revenue

• Interestincome and interest expense

• Borrow and loan fees

• Repo and reverse repo income/expense

• Mark-to-market adjustments where applicable

• Manage 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 conclusionsalignedwith business activity and system processing.

• Support accounting analysis for complex transactions, new products, and non-routine events.

• Support internal and external financial reporting for thebroker-dealer, including legal entity reporting and consolidation inputs, as applicable.

• Maintain strong balance sheet and P&L controls over trading, underwriting, financing, and remarketing activities.

• Review account reconciliations, breaks, aged items, and exception reporting; drive timely remediation and escalation where needed.

• Ensure compliance with internal accounting policies, U.S. GAAP, and broker-dealer control standards.

• Assist in development and maintenance of accounting policies, process narratives, desktop procedures, and control documentation.

• Partner with regulatory reporting teams to support consistency between general ledger balances and broker-dealer regulatory reporting inputs.

• Work closely with:

• Capital markets desk support teams

• Operations / settlements

• Treasury and liquidity teams

• Product control / valuation control

• Regulatory reporting

• Internal audit, external audit, and compliance

• Provide accounting support for business initiatives, systems implementations, process changes, and legal entity or product expansion efforts.

• Serve as a key accounting contact for control issues, process improvements, and…