Accounting Systems Specialist - Capital One

Accounting Systems Specialist - Capital One

Job R70186 Updated date
04/30/2019 Location
Richmond, Virginia

West Creek 3 (12073), United States of America, Richmond, Virginia

At Capital One, we’re building a leading information-based technology company. Still founder-led by Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Richard Fairbank, Capital One is on a mission to help our customers succeed by bringing ingenuity, simplicity, and humanity to banking. We measure our efforts by the success our customers enjoy and the advocacy they exhibit. We are succeeding because they are succeeding.

Guided by our shared values, we thrive in an environment where collaboration and openness are valued. We believe that innovation is powered by perspective and that teamwork and respect for each other lead to superior results. We elevate each other and obsess about doing the right thing. Our associates serve with humility and a deep respect for their responsibility in helping our customers achieve their goals and realize their dreams.

Together, we are on a quest to change banking for good.

Accounting Systems Specialist

We are looking for a
Principal Associate, Accounting Systems Specialist
to join a cross-functional team designed to deliver against corporate initiatives for multiple business lines. Your responsibilities will be associated with the implementation of corporate initiatives that have direct impacts to Controller systems and processes. You will utilize your strong systems and accounting industry knowledge as well as Agile and project management experience. The Shared Systems and Support team manages controls, analysis and system changes/development for our general ledger, reconciliation, consolidations, and certification systems for the entire Controllers organization.

The accuracy of these systems is essential to reporting correct financial information to our executives, regulators, and investors. In addition, you will have the ability to understand upstream and downstream processes that will impact these systems including line of business dependencies.

Primary Responsibilities:

- Work within and across Agile teams to design, configure, test, implement, and support both technical and business solutions for general ledger and reconciliation systems

- Gather requirements for business processes and interface designs

- Develop test cases, perform test execution, and lead test calls

- Complete system configuration builds, changes, and source to target mapping updates

- Provide support for post-implementation processes and systems during stabilization and warranty periods

- Perform process knowledge transfer with production support teams

- Develop and establish monitoring associated with system changes

- Maintain up-to-date understanding of projects which includes activities, risks and issues, assumptions and dependencies

The person we’re looking for:

• has a sense of intellectual curiosity and a burning desire to learn

• has great communication and reasoning skills

• is self-driven, actively looks for ways to contribute, and knows how to get things done

• is customer-focused

• takes pride in the work they do

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree or military experience

• At least 3 years of Accounting experience or Financial Services industry experience

• At least 2 years of Financial System experience

Preferred Qualifications:

• 6+ years of Accounting or Financial Services industry experience

• 4+ years of Financial System experience

• 2+ years of Frontier Recon Plus application experience

• 2+ years of People Soft application experience

• 2+ years of Agile/Project Management experience

At this time, Capital One will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization for this position.

No agencies please. Capital One is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, color, age, national origin, religion, physical and mental disability, genetic information, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity/assignment, citizenship, pregnancy or maternity, protected veteran status, or any other status prohibited by applicable…