Sr. Accountant, Accounting & Financial Reporting

Sr. Financial Reporting Accountant

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Card Works Financial Group is a diversified financial services platform building ethical solutions across credit, lending, and the full customer lifecycle. Through our family of companies, Card Works Financial Group tackles the complex challenges that larger financial institutions leave behind. We're embedded throughout the credit card ecosystem as a lender, servicer, and merchant acquirer.

Our team tackles the industry's most complex credit and payment challenges. And we believe that excellent work starts with a team that feels supported, respected, and empowered to grow.

The Sr. Financial Reporting Accountant performs a broad range of daily, weekly, and monthly accounting and financial reporting functions for Merrick Bank Corporation (the "Bank") with increased independence and responsibility. Duties include preparing and recording general ledger entries, completing account reconciliations and analyses of moderate complexity, supporting the accounts payable process as needed, and performing other accounting and reporting activities as assigned by the Accounting Supervisor.

This role ensures all work is completed accurately, timely, and in compliance with established internal controls, policies, and procedures. The Sr. Financial Reporting Accountant applies a strong understanding of accounting principles to resolve routine issues, supports month end close and reporting activities, and contributes to audits, regulatory support, and process improvements under general guidance.

• Independently compiles, analyzes, and reviews financial information to prepare and record moderately complex entries to the Bank's general ledger (Oracle Cloud), ensuring transactions are appropriately documented and supported.
• Performs and reviews account analyses and reconciliations of moderate complexity, including researching, resolving, and clearing discrepancies and outages accurately and within established timelines.
• Records, reconciles, and analyzes the Bank's daily cash and investing activities, identifying variances and escalating issues as appropriate.
• Prepares and files the Bank's sales/use tax and property tax returns, ensuring accuracy, completeness, and compliance with regulatory requirements and filing deadlines.
• Completes and reviews schedules supporting the Bank's FDICIA controls, ensuring proper documentation, consistency, and adherence to internal control standards.
• Provides advanced support for the month-end close process, including preparation and review of balance sheet support, reconciliations, and FDICIA documentation.
• Serves as a knowledgeable backup for Accounts Payable, reviewing expense coding, processing accounts payable and employee reimbursement transactions, and ensuring compliance with Bank policies and procedures.
• Compiles, analyzes, and reviews financial data and reports to support Finance management's reporting and decision-making needs.
• Maintains and updates departmental procedures, ensuring documentation remains current, accurate, and aligned with standard procedure templates and control requirements.
• Supports internal and external audits by independently collecting, reviewing, validating, and organizing audit support documentation and responding to auditor inquiries.
• Identifies process inefficiencies and areas for improvement, recommends practical enhancements, and supports implementation of approved improvements.
• Completes a variety of daily, weekly, and monthly accounting schedules with increased independence and attention to accuracy and timeliness.
• Performs special projects and ad hoc analyses as assigned by the Accounting Supervisor or management.

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting is required. Associate's degree in Accounting with three (3) years of related and equivalent experience accepted in lieu of education requirement.
• A minimum of three (3) years of progressively responsible accounting experience is required.
• Experience with, and demonstrated skill at, the following computer applications:
  Word Processing, Spreadsheets (Excel preferred), Accounting software (preferably Oracle Cloud Financials), E-mail, and Database software.

• Demonstrated ability to apply accounting and mathematical concepts, including fractions, percentages, ratios, and proportions, to practical accounting and financial reporting situations.
• Demonstrated ability to analyze and resolve moderately complex accounting issues and to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.
• Working knowledge of general ledger accounting, reconciliations, and financial reporting processes within a regulated banking environment.
• Experience supporting the preparation and filing of sales/use tax and property tax returns in accordance with…