Senior Accountant

Who We Are:

ACAMS is the largest international membership organization dedicated to providing opportunities for anti-financial crime (AFC) education, best practices, and peer-to-peer networking to AFC professionals globally. With over 115,000 members across 180 jurisdictions, ACAMS is committed to fighting and finding ways to help prevent financial crime through the provision of anti-money laundering/counter-terrorism financing and sanctions knowledge-sharing, thought leadership, risk-mitigation services, ESG initiatives, and platforms for public-private dialogue.

The association's CAMS certification is the gold-standard qualification for AFC professionals, while the CGSS certification is its premier specialist qualification for sanctions professionals. ACAMS has recently expanded its certification portfolio to include the Certified Anti-Fraud Specialist (CAFS), designed to equip professionals with the tools to detect, investigate, and prevent financial fraud.

Through its 60+ Chapters and a robust calendar of global conferences, symposiums, and training events, ACAMS brings together members of the AFC community from around the world to exchange ideas, strengthen networks, and drive meaningful change. Visit acams.org for more information.

Opportunity at a Glance

ACAMS is seeking a dynamic and detail-oriented Senior Accountant with a proven track record to join our team. This position will be primarily responsible for all aspects of the accounting for one of the company's more complex items, revenue recognition. Critical to success will be timely and accurate assignment of revenue recognition rules and revenue related journal entries in accordance with GAAP, IFRS and ACAMS' accounting policies and procedures.

This role will report to the Senior Accounting Manager. In addition, this person will handle other duties and special projects as assigned.

Responsibilities

• Primarily accountable for executing a broad range of month-end close activities not limited to preparing monthly journal entries and Balance Sheet reconciliations.

• Preparation of the more complex and critical monthly accounting entries, including revenue recognition.

• Actively participate in monthly close financial meetings with management to discuss and evaluate monthly financial results through investigation and reporting of variance analysis.

• Provide essential control functions (accounting and financial systems), including, but not limited to account reconciliations, general ledger account analyses, and review of and updates to control matrices.

• Support the annual external consolidated audit process for the company. This includes the preparation, compilation, and submission of required analyses and schedules.

• Drives changes in processes through use of automation and technology including full utilization of the company's close automation tool.

• Contribute to a continuous improvement environment, including review of tasks, processes, and workflows within the department for maximum efficiency, productivity, and development.

• Foster an environment of collaboration amongst the collective team as well as with the other teams within the Accounting/Finance function.

• Completes other duties and special projects as assigned.

Qualifications

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. Below are the minimum requirements of the education, experience, knowledge, and skills required to competently perform in this position.

• Bachelor of Science, Accounting; CPA preferred.

• 5-7 years of experience in accounting/finance related field; public accounting experience preferred.

• Strong knowledge of US GAAP is required and experience with IFRS is a plus.

• Advanced Excel skills and ERP systems knowledge;
Net Suite and Salesforce experience is a plus.

• Experience with intercompany accounting is preferred.

• Excellent and effective written and verbal communication skills.

• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills and ability to deliver very high-quality output.

• Self-motivating, highly organized individual with a strong work ethic and the ability to effectively multi-task and work in a dynamic environment and collaborate regularly over MS Teams.

• Ability to collaborate remotely and across different time zones.

• Must have the ability to facilitate teamwork and cooperation at all levels within the organization, as well as with external parties, and be able to work with limited supervision.

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EEO

We are proud to be an EEO employer M/F/D/V. At ACAMS, we welcome everyone and have a strong commitment towards diversity and inclusion. We encourage our Colleagues to be their true authentic selves and support laws that prohibit discrimination everywhere we do business. We also maintain a drug-free workplace.